0817 | Thesis research

/Thesis statement/
The research and practice of using Rotoscoping technique in the animation short film.

This will be an experimental short animation with real interview soundtrack about the weather and people’s thoughts on how they effected by it.

Content/
I want to make an animated short film, document people’s feelings about their lives and philosophy to how the weather effects their lives in few sentences. (New Orleans, Asian area and Taiwan especially)

Form/
Collage of intervew videos with Rotoscope on it (because of more creative visual effect and using low resolution camera can be done quickly and low budget)
, motion graphics (still images but animated by aftereffect to create the feeling of “this moment”). And real interview soundtrack behind the film.

About Rotoscope/

/ Year /                  / Precedents  /                  / Rotoscope Technique /
2001                        Waking life hand tracing rotoscoping frame by frame
2006                        A scanner darkly hand tracing rotoscoping frame by frame
2006                        Renaissance motion capture and computer graphics
2007                        Persepolis traditional animation , frame by frame
“Je suis bien content” and “Pumpkin 3D”
2008                       Fears of the dark
2009   (4 years)    Waltz with Bashir Flash cutouts 3D, and classical animation

Prototype/

The first thing i tried , is to masking the video in after effect (transforming the mask path).

The jumps are very annoying as you can see.

So I tried another way, to output the video into sequences and fix it with photoshop one by one.

And I got this:

It doesn’t look very bad, then I run it automatically on the whole sequence.

But I got a video like this:

Which has too many noises…

I decided to test on other part of my project, tried to make the still images move in few seconds.

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