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rotoscopingCreating animated characters by tracing an action movie with real actors frame by frame. Performed via the computer today, rotoscoping was originally accomplished in the early 1900s by projecting each movie frame onto a frosted glass easel, from which the illustrator traced and redrew the image. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Very talky and done in an animation technique called rotoscoping, which gives it a painterly look, ``A Scanner Darkly'' is really only for fans of this type of speculative fiction. Toward the end of his filmmaking phase, Goldstein began deploying animation, most famously in The Jump, 1978, in which footage of a high diver is transformed, via rotoscoping, into the strange vision of a glimmering figure somersaulting into a void. I began production with the idea of rotoscoping over live-action images. |
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