Rotoscope
ロトスコープ / 1915– / Technique / Animation Techniques
Tracing live-action footage frame by frame. Patented by the Fleischers, it mixes the gravity of live action with the freedom of drawing into a distinctive wavering line.
Movement from live action / Wavering contours / Bodies with weight / Between film and drawing
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the Fleischer brothers / a-ha, Take On Me / Richard Linklater, Waking Life