Enchanted: Rotoscope Animation Test (Rough)

[Efrayn]

A mí si hay algo que me sorprende más que la paciencia para crear arte, es que haya gente que la puntúe negativamente sin ninguna justificación.

Nice job! ;-)

[Keinajuliet1]

I loved it

[MisticalMermaid]

wow sorry about the last coment well i put enter and i froget put a coment well i so good your animation :P

[fieldofscreams99]

wats  roto scope

[themotrich]

Rotoscoping is a both a form of animation and general visual editing. It involves tracing a part or a whole frame of film in succession, then adding a effect. A solid example of its use in movies is lightsabers in star wars: the artist traced the outline of the saber prop in every single frame of film and then applied the glow. In animation its an awesome form of practise/help for getting a feel for how things move. Think of it like how 3d animators use motion capture to improve their scenes.

[mightyfedepxress]

ignore him.

[sunnygirly2k4]

Impressive. may just be tracing her movements, but not alot of people can rotoscope that well.

[Keeper2391]

How did you rotoscope it?

Did you find the stills online and just sort of go at it? O.O

[ordinarigrrrl]

WOW

JUST LIKE AMY ! :D

[mimtha]

nice... how long did it take you to draw all those pictures

[clusterchuck]

like an hour, but I went back and cleaned up all the pictures so i might re-do this vid!

[therealyukino]

Wow, that's so cool! I wanna try lol :D How exactly did you do it? (I mean, I know you traced it and stuff, but how did you put the drawings together and that? Did you use some kind of program?) Sorry, I'm completely ignorant about this sort of thing, but I think it's awesome. :) Favorited!

[clusterchuck]

I actually just scanned them into photoshop and cropped em down. I just tried to find a way of knowing where the next framme would go so I used the waist as a reference point. To edit them together I used windows movie maker and had each on for like 00:00:13 secs each. I hope that helps!

[therealyukino]

I see... How did you get the individual frames for tracing? Did you pause the movie and take screenshots or something? Sorry to bother you lol

[clusterchuck]

haha bothering me, are you kidding?! your making me feel so smart right now haha, wow that rilly doesn't happen often. I actually grabbed the movie off of YouTube and got it into iTunes. Once I did that I went frame by frame and had a piece of paper flat against the screen and traced each frame, does that make any sense haha?

[therealyukino]

Ohhhh I seeeee :D Clever, very clever! I might actually try this!

lol glad I could make you feel smart :)

You know, I suck at tracing upright... good thing I have a laptop and can lay the screen flat... muahaha :D

Is this the rebirth of my long-lost dream of becoming a Disney animator? Gasp!

[clusterchuck]

OmG are you forserious?! Ahh we have like the same dream-job! So I heard that they are rebuilding the old animation studios! I don't know what tards got rid of it in the first place but whatev! Wow not to sound like a total creeper but jw how old are u? Jst cuz I'm still in HS and jst starting to look at colleges for animation and i was jw if you had any thoughts or somethin:)

[therealyukino]

Don't worry lol. You don't sound like a 'creeper' :D Actually, I don't really know if I can help you, because I'm 16... I'm younger than you... (It says that I'm 20 on my profile, but I did that because my dad always hammered it into me that I should never put my real age on the Internet xD)

[therealyukino]

UCLA is supposed to be excellent. CalArts too (a LOT of Disney and Pixar [squee! love them] animators went there - usually in the same classroom, too! It's a running joke of theirs to put the classroom number in random places in their movies. I think it's like A112 or something like that. I love trivia like that :D)

[clusterchuck]

Yeah Cal Arts sis like my top choice right now! I sux tho cuz i'm in Michigan but if i get accepted that's most def where I'm goin!

[therealyukino]

Good luck then :) If you do get accepted, you'll be coming to where I live, in sunny CA. (Wait... how far is CalArts from my house? o.O)

[therealyukino]

(Yeah, I can't believe it didn't pop up in my Google search... talk about an exact keyword match lol.)

[therealyukino]

I feel so happy! I've found a fellow Disney fan :D My family thinks I'm weird -_-||| I mean, they like it too, but they think I'm going a bit overboard... Well, I HAVE been watching nothing except Disney for the past few weeks... (ALL HAIL WINTER BREAK!) But you just don't get beautiful, warm, curvy animation like you did back then anymore. I just watched Sleeping Beauty today and I was like O_O the whole time lol

[ordinarigrrrl]

TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU !

[clusterchuck]

Wow you're lucky to live so close to such a great animation school dude!

[therealyukino]

Well, it's not like I'm right next door or anything, lol. I haven't visited, either... Although I ought to. 'Twould be cool to see the hatching-grounds, so to speak, of the animators I admire so much today. So you're definitely going into 2D? I'm pretty interested in using Pixar software, although I also love the old Disney classics. I think I might be too dumb though. Sigh.

[clusterchuck]

haha it's kosh. So if you don't know how to get youtube vids into itunes i used these free programs. YouTube Video Downloader (wow what an imaginative name) to get the video off youtube (didnt see that comin!) and I cconverted it into an Mpeg-1 file and added the file into my itunes library.

[clusterchuck]

For the converting i used ImTOO MOV Converter 3 which offers a great free trial version, the only downside is it only will convert for up to 5 minutes of a video but that only effefcts longer videos. So jst in case you wanted to know!

[albinollama]

Wow! I'm taking a computer animation class right now, but I really want to learn how to do traditional animation (the good stuff, like drawing on sheets and sheets of paper). I strongly agree with the people who said this is awesome/cool =D

[clusterchuck]

ME TOO! I want to learn traditional animation sooo badly! It sucks tho cuz not many colleges offer it so now I may have to go to literally the other side of the country to learn it! It would be sooo worth it tho! Lemme know how ur likin ur animation classes!=D

[Luvie2]

Very cool :)

[Luvie2]

Alexsherwood obviously hasn't seen your other animation videos which are your drawings with no tracing. But this is a cool video, and like you said, you're just experimenting. The guy is taking this waaay too serious.

[Alexsherwood]

yeah nice TRACING job there

[clusterchuck]

That's what rotoscoping is! Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films. When Disney made Cinderella, they shot the WHOLE movie in live-action then traced it. I'm not trying to pass it off as free-hand animation, I'm just experimenting with a form of animation, back-off!

[Alexsherwood]

ye i know all the old disney films did it and i think its just a way of cheating for people who cant actually animate.

[Alexsherwood]

animation is acting with a pencil, rotoscoping is tracing someone elses acting with no thought of timing or posing. it might be a technique that people have created for animation but its not real animation:) if u used that footage as refrence rather than a map u would feel alot better about ur work cos it would be ur interpetation of what that movement whould look like not the actors.

[clusterchuck]

You are completely right when you say I don't know how to animate, because I really don't1 I've never taken a class or been taught how to carry a movement through a series of drawing, I mean I'm only 17. I'm just trying to experiment here! :)

[jacobwhatever]

lol you're retarded.

[clusterchuck]

haha nice posting Jac hahaha! I thought you were sayin I was retarded and I started cracking up hahahaha! funny stuff, cya in chemistry!

[Etcy]

yea!!!!!!!!!!

[phantomphan1992]

Awesome job!