Monday, 7 April 2014
Rotoscoping research Redone
Rotoscoping refers to the process of drawing over a video and manually creating a matte to create a composite, in layman's terms it would be manually creating a hole in one layer to see through to something else, like adding a matte in it's place.
Rotoscoping is also a term to describe a type of animation, tracing over a video frame by frame to create a realism in movement, here is an example of a rotoscoped animation:
History of Rotoscoping
The Device for Rotoscoping called a 'Rotoscope' was patented by Max Fleischer in 1917 and was quickly added to the staple diet of visual effects in film and moving over to being used in animations and creating a whole new style of visual effects that took the industry by storm.
Rotoscoping was used in some very well known films, like Hitchcocks 'The Birds' - 1963, the famous scene with the birds gathering in the playground is rotoscoped, the end result was very impressive and realistic and very effective in the scene as follows:
In Adobe After effects you can rotoscope using a 'roto brush' this is a technique we used to create an effect of a floating banana by removing an arm by removing it and showing the background behind it. the roto brush is a really great tool to use because after effects helps you by using mathematical equations to find colours like the ones you've clicked on with the brush and also selecting them, making highlighting flesh against a background very easy.
Rotoscoping is also a term to describe a type of animation, tracing over a video frame by frame to create a realism in movement, here is an example of a rotoscoped animation:
History of Rotoscoping
The Device for Rotoscoping called a 'Rotoscope' was patented by Max Fleischer in 1917 and was quickly added to the staple diet of visual effects in film and moving over to being used in animations and creating a whole new style of visual effects that took the industry by storm.
Rotoscoping was used in some very well known films, like Hitchcocks 'The Birds' - 1963, the famous scene with the birds gathering in the playground is rotoscoped, the end result was very impressive and realistic and very effective in the scene as follows:
In Adobe After effects you can rotoscope using a 'roto brush' this is a technique we used to create an effect of a floating banana by removing an arm by removing it and showing the background behind it. the roto brush is a really great tool to use because after effects helps you by using mathematical equations to find colours like the ones you've clicked on with the brush and also selecting them, making highlighting flesh against a background very easy.
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