{"id":204289,"date":"2021-03-17T14:16:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T11:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-beginners-guide-to-rotoscoping\/"},"modified":"2021-03-17T14:16:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T11:16:10","slug":"a-beginners-guide-to-rotoscoping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-beginners-guide-to-rotoscoping\/","title":{"rendered":"#A Beginner&#8217;s Guide to Rotoscoping"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2e5baa498ac\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2e5baa498ac\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-beginners-guide-to-rotoscoping\/#Who_made_this\" >Who made this?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-beginners-guide-to-rotoscoping\/#More_Videos_Like_This\" >More Videos Like This<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#A Beginner&#8217;s Guide to Rotoscoping<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.9--><em>Welcome to <strong>The Queue<\/strong> \u2014 your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we\u2019re watching a video essay on how the animation technique of rotoscoping works.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Animation has several uncanny valleys. An uncanny mountain range, if you will. But, when it comes to the medium\u2019s eerie highlights, <strong>rotoscoping<\/strong> is rarely mentioned. Everyone\u2019s too distracted by that nightmare baby from the <em>Tin Toy <\/em>Pixar short. And look, I get it. That Lynchian infant has been haunting us all since 1988. But I don\u2019t think rotoscoping gets its dues for conjuring a comparably strange effect.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of its invention, rotoscoping was a technological breakthrough that forever changed the course of Western animation. When the first commercially created animated films began <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earing in theaters in the early 20th century, the movements were jerky and unrealistic. Patented by animator and inventor <strong>Max Fleischer<\/strong>, the rotoscope was a revelation. The device combined a projector and an easel mount and allowed animators to use live-action film as a traceable reference. In sum: it was a way to use real-life movement to create smoother, more natural-looking animated motion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been over a hundred years since the rotoscope\u2019s invention. And in that time, animators have cracked the code on producing fluid motion without tracing live-action references. As a consequence, watching true-blue examples of rotoscoping, like Ralph Bakshi\u2018s <strong><em>The Lord of the Rings\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(1978) or Richard Linklater\u2019s <strong><em>A Scanner Darkly <\/em><\/strong>(2006), feel implacably odd. There\u2019s a tension between the fantastic visuals and the real-looking movement. But it\u2019s this tension, I find, that makes rotoscoping so compelling (if mildly unsettling) to watch.<\/p>\n<p>The video essay below digs deeper into the history and mechanics of rotoscoping. It also makes sure to point out that, a century later, the technique of real movement forming the basis for animation survives in the form of motion-capture. And also that, more to the point, rotoscoping is so much more than tracing-over preexisting work. You can patent a device, but you can\u2019t patent its execution.<\/p>\n<p>Watch \u201c<strong>The trick that made animation realistic<\/strong>\u201c:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The trick that made animation realistic\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IS1hCSsmH1E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_made_this\"><\/span>Who made this?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This video is by\u00a0<em><strong>Vox<\/strong><\/em>, an American <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> website owned by\u00a0<strong>Vox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a><\/strong>, founded in 2014. 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