Rotoscoping animation

For this week assignment i had to create an rotoscope animation. Rotoscoping is the process of drawing over live action frame by frame to create realistic movement. This method was popularized by Walt Disney in his animations at the companies earlier stages. The theme of mine was energy so i was to produce a short animation with energetic movement.

For this i chose to rotoscope over a video sequence of a footballer doing keepie-ups. Overall i found this to be fun and rather relaxing. Rotoscoping turns out to be not a hard process but a long process. As of that i found it rather enjoying. Overall i found this to be my best work of art so far in this unit.

However given the option to attempt the task again i would base it on a different video. This is because the speed the person is moving at i found it to be hard to rotoscope at certain points as the players arms would be blurry making it harder to copy it down precisely.