Who Invented Motion Capture (from CartoonBrew.com)
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  • Since the same wrong guesses are cycling back again, I repeat the explanation:

    This is not motion capture and it's not rotoscope. It's a process called Artiscope (aka, Cinemagic), which was invented by Moe Howard's son-in-law, Norman Maurer, who also produced this picture. As touted in the movie, it was designed to create cartoons without using animators. It was an entirely photochemical process, and only required slight touch ups by an actual artist.

    Google Artiscope + Maurer.

    pegbars 3 years ago 2

  • A later successor of Artiscope (forget the name but a clip is on Cartoon Brew) was used by Ralph Bakshi to "cheat" live-action footage to look like animation in Lord of the Rings and American Pop...

    TServo2049 3 years ago

  • Norman Maurer was ahead of his time in the basic concept. But the problem is that the process failed to "capture" each frame of live action and convert it into an "animated figure." The results are what appears to be cheap animation made by making every fourth drawing and doubling or trippling the exposure per drawing. It simply does not contain the fluidity of the original.

    RayPointer 2 years ago

  • that looks like rotoscoping, not mo-cap.

    novelenterprise 3 years ago

  • Yup, it is. But the two kinda mean the same thing, generally.

    merrett 3 years ago

  • The threee Stooges are the darlings of comedy! hohohohohohööööööö

    DUNIARANDI 4 years ago 2

  • I like this movie... it's funny

    vially2007 4 years ago 2

  • now i can understand Kramer isnt an original character... sad...

    thekrael 4 years ago

  • They wear contrasty clothes to ease the rotoscoping process. So it's not about Motion Capture, but about rotoscoping.

    felixo22 4 years ago 4

  • Are you sure this is rotoscope??

    64mung 4 years ago

  • Actually it's pretty funny. Get a smart person to explain it to you.

    ovelop 4 years ago 2

  • hmmm

    so thats how its done

    StringedDuet 4 years ago

  • Was that Curly or Joe?

    blizzvalve 4 years ago

  • fake. as you can see when every time the word cartoon is pronunced the camera is in something else, beacause its never been said at all. And it´s totall superposed the image in the tv screen, its sharper than the rest of the film...

    rigojg 4 years ago

  • rig! +1 dude, nice catch! In your face You Tube, this is totally fake and I find out these guys have been dead for years.

    ezjhitmaykah 4 years ago

  • Anyone know who these guys are ??? Actors? Dudes, I know you're watchin' over us from heaven, and your friends here will get through this together like you'd want us to ... V-peace!

    ezjhitmaykah 4 years ago

  • cool

    Trebuchet1221 4 years ago

  • watch?v=3tvpFmV5w_w

    Palkiaz 4 years ago

  • i don't remember ever seeing this episode...and I've seen quite the many. What's it called?

    Rosiercentral 4 years ago

  • Lamest Youtube post ever. Waste of time and bandwidth.

    musiccalgary 4 years ago

  • Fake. Wow so fake it was CGI. Busted!

    lolpatrolz 4 years ago

  • You have to be a CG geek like me to get the punchline. I assume they were running this on ENIAC? LOL

    romaji2 4 years ago

  • You make one more of these super quiet videos i`ll punch your face in. geez

    funny stuff though

    krepecish 4 years ago

  • What about the peanuts butter ?

    Alexvideoclip 4 years ago

  • I liked it, even though there's no punch line.

    RickChimera 4 years ago 2

  • thats interesting

    RUsucks 4 years ago

  • Now this is way better than some crappy american idiot video. I'm american idol.

    SKONJIE 4 years ago

  • holy crap theres alot of spam on featured videos X.X

    Brando2600 4 years ago 3

  • Hes a witch! BURN HIM!

    Brando2600 4 years ago

  • Amazing!!! What year was this??

    64mung 4 years ago

  • 1962. It's from the film "The Three Stooges in Orbit".

    TheRagingCelt 4 years ago

  • WOW 1962!! If you know what your looking at you would understand what amazing technology that is for 1962. Thanks TRC.

    64mung 4 years ago

  • haha no one heard homer at 00.37! fantastic! Incredible!

    StixxmanNJ 4 years ago

  • I wonder how I would look in a cartoon.

    isabella293 4 years ago

  • Barbie ;-)

    smartzazi 4 years ago

  • Ken.

    agustin19S5 4 years ago

  • Michelin Man...? ;)

    LyeBlack 4 years ago

  • Don't mean to sound like a total internet knob, but that's not motion capture, it's rotoscoping....*goes and sits back in nerdy corner*

    Downie 4 years ago 6

  • Most the stuff on the front page is crap, but this one is cute.

    WyattKaldenberg 4 years ago 2

  • I hope no one is falling for this joke. Computer graphics did not exist in the three stooges era. Funny video though.

    sadalite 4 years ago 3

  • But isn't motion capture a kind of time machine?

    globalnywiesniak 4 years ago

  • wtf is that !?

    highpowerm 4 years ago

  • The three stooges also invented cold fusion and the plasma drive but no one ever gives them credit. Typically people are prejudiced against stooges and this is yet another example.

    ChristopherMarlowe 4 years ago 3

  • ???? why is this on the front?

    erichw23 4 years ago

  • I thought I saw just about all of the Three Stooges stuff from growing up in the fifties, but this is a new one!

    TECHKLEC 4 years ago

  • wow that really wasnt funny....

    frenchie93 4 years ago 2

  • hahaha cool!!! I knew the three stooges were legends. =]

    niceverdict 4 years ago

  • Thank you, Bakshi!

    TheDarwinian 4 years ago

  • Yeah. Put 1,000 cartoonists out of work.

    gungasdindin 4 years ago

  • It looks like they invented The Twist as well!

    dirtywaterclub 4 years ago

  • Thank God for the 3 Stooges. They invented electronic rotoscoping!!

    3 Stooges In ORBIT (thats the film right?)

    Gold. Havent seen this in like 30 years.

    Thanks for posting man.

    nunfu 4 years ago

  • strangely random...

    DeadFishDirector 4 years ago

  • I agree

    satchito 4 years ago

  • was that really what it was like, or is this comedy messing w/ history.

    1one1neo1one1 4 years ago

  • hi hi hih hi

    yansuemaie 4 years ago

  • woo

    rkarl26 4 years ago

  • Like+it...

    asdfsfewfsfsdf 4 years ago

  • Wow, over 300 comments and no one's guessed it right!

    As others noted, this is not motion capture. But it's not rotoscoping, either. It's a process called Artiscope (aka, Cinemagic), which was invented by Moe Howard's son-in-law, Norman Maurer, who also produced this picture. Just as advertised, it was designed to create cartoons without using animators. It was truly done photochemically, and only required slight touch ups by an actual artist.

    Do a search on Artiscope + Maurer.

    pegbars 4 years ago 2

  • ^__^

    Three Stooges rock my world.

    IPunchaUInTheFace 4 years ago

  • what the fuck is this

    Ross175 4 years ago

  • MAKE VIDS MAKE MONEY SUB ME

    5kadaydotbiz 4 years ago

  • man, that's random man. Evry'one knows it was Gondry, man. Get your facts straight. Evry efect ever made is either Gondry or Spiellberg, just look on the imdb. the imdb don't lie. that's a fact.

    llucerda 4 years ago

  • Very clever.

    romuluscrohns 4 years ago

  • Is this taken from an actual 3 stooges movie? If so which one?

    htmlbandit 4 years ago

  • It'll never catch on.

    EntertainmentCanada 4 years ago

  • Ha ha, cool

    ModGyo 4 years ago

  • save energy, bang a turtle!

    labiasofjustice 4 years ago

  • Prediction and invention are entirely different, or Star Trek is owed a lot of patents.

    benboyang 4 years ago

  • Ireland Rocks!

    H5LL2O25 4 years ago

  • wtf? why was this featured?!?

    RenyandLuna 4 years ago 2

  • Cus its interesting.

    FearOfFrizzle 4 years ago

  • wat the hell!

    bosstone2112 4 years ago

  • also known now as the computer. OOOOOOO:)

    stitch1993 4 years ago

  • Hmm.

    RagingLion 4 years ago

  • I used to have this movie, It's the one with aliens that look like Frankenstein.

    rhinoburger 4 years ago

  • Oddly this was Ralph Bakshi's method for Lord of the Rings and American Pop

    DaimajinStoneGod 4 years ago

  • ahh the stooges

    although thats not the right curly cause he had a stroke

    woodtick71 4 years ago

  • =).....

    HardCoreJ92 4 years ago

  • This is rotoscope animation, not motion capture. Cool, though.

    StanleyMoore 4 years ago

  • E = MC2

    Scienterific 4 years ago

  • bruce springstein sucks

    gitpres 4 years ago

  • views my videos cool!!

    bekofte111 4 years ago

  • alright.... youtube officially sucks now. using copy-written material for the featured page. EVERYONE SWITCH TO VIMEO!

    NickPetrella 4 years ago

  • cooooooooooool

    sakyro25 4 years ago

  • Your english is indecipherable.

    jasonguyperson 4 years ago

  • Me he quedao pillado, ese si que era un visionario

    YAGOTUBE2006 4 years ago

  • Awesome 3 stooges rule !

    EVIL LEGION

    evil 4 years ago 2

  • What!?!?!?

    TurnipTruckProd 4 years ago

  • Huh... That's more like automatic rotoscoping... But I get what you mean.

    RoyalKidofOz 4 years ago

  • Yea uh what Takosk typed.

    r42261 4 years ago

  • Emil Sitka- The 4th Stooge!

    jimalda 4 years ago

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    takosk 4 years ago

  • My mom went to college and invented self-cleaning underwear with breathable zip pockets and enhanced cheese storage.

    aliencrap 4 years ago

  • If this was from a (copyrighted) movie, wouldn't this video be against the TOS?

    Temptant 4 years ago

  • In the end he tells by who this video named which means he queted it so it cant be againt TOS

    OnlinePlayer4Life 4 years ago

  • Dad?

    Crispeeee 4 years ago

  • i invented the phone

    runlikehell23 4 years ago

  • and your mom taught her

    Leopardman33 4 years ago

  • no that was your mom...if i remember correctly hahahahh

    BagofSunshine1001 4 years ago

  • bullshit

    bennettbuzz 4 years ago

  • when was this stooges episode recorded? anyone know? thats kind of weird. but cool!

    BKDocHoliday 4 years ago

  • This was actually from one of their movies.

    tobar1p 4 years ago

  • its from the movie called...The Three Stooges in Orbit. Its about them thwarting a martian invation of earth.

    texasmedic416 4 years ago

  • I have long suspected, the fountain from which all genius flows is filled with Three Stooges.

    nadafinga9 4 years ago 4

  • thats it?????

    wowiejunior 4 years ago

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    smirenger 4 years ago

  • That isn't motion capture - it is rotoscoping. It was invented during the production of Snow White by Disney.

    howarthc 4 years ago

  • I have loved this video ever since I watched it. Rotoscoping (the result of the technique that's seen here) was done first by projecting live footage onto a screen so an animator could trace the action by hand. This was invented by Max Fleischer in 1915 or so who used it in his "Out of the Inkwell" cartoon series. He actually had his brother Dave dressed in a clown suit that was traced over later to become the famous Koko the Clown character. This wasn't done by machine but by hand in this vid.

    mayathemacjedi 4 years ago 2

  • I was just looking at some motion capture stuff yesterday - Matt Willis doing Parkour on Big Shot Live. Cool :-)

    michalgarcia 4 years ago

  • The Andrews sisters in drag. What a hoot!

    rocketlonscher 4 years ago

  • 3 stooges ftw.

    DimitriNakos 4 years ago

  • share what you Watching

    cexymf 4 years ago

  • I'm buying this idea. Nice roto.

    billamu 4 years ago

  • Pretty sure it was Edison. Please see my video above.

    J1Goro 4 years ago

  • Erm, I hate to bust ya bubble, but the first motion picture was actually made in Australia.... It was called `the kelly Gang` I believe... About the bushranger Ned Kelly.

    Please post me with relevent info?

    bribie100 4 years ago

  • Edison did!!!

    Nakedskin 4 years ago

  • is.... is that sean penn?

    Gannondalf 4 years ago

  • Edison?

    J1Goro 4 years ago

  • kdjsa

    danas666 4 years ago

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    ninaofnewyork 4 years ago

  • Let me back up and refine my statement:

    "The technique was invented by Max Fleischer, who used it in his series Out of the Inkwell starting around 1915, with his brother Dave Fleischer dressed in a clown outfit as the live-film reference for the character Koko the Clown.

    Fleischer used rotoscope in a number of his later cartoons as well, most notably the Cab Calloway dance routines in three Betty Boop cartoons from the early 1930s.

    JudiG 4 years ago 2

  • Actually Rotoscope was first used in a feature film by Cab Calloway.

    JudiG 4 years ago

  • do to others what you would have them do to you

    bench175 4 years ago

  • thats just rotoscope, it was used to make all the animated parts in mary poppins and many older cartoons

    stevethegecko 4 years ago

  • yea, it was rotoscoped... but the "machine" he "invented" resembles motion capture more closely.

    MysteryGuitarMan 4 years ago 2

  • well the machine he 'invented' was simply just for the sake of making a science fiction style thing. ROTOSCOPE FTW

    stevethegecko 4 years ago

  • wow....

    swimunderman 4 years ago

  • well said

    plipmanzz 4 years ago

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    masterYoshimistsu 4 years ago 3

  • to me, this world seems like an incomprehensible nightmare.

    IHaveTheBestHair 4 years ago

  • "The most incomprehensible thing about our universe, is that it is comprehensible."

    -Albert Einstein

    21GeeOff21 4 years ago 2

  • to 21GeeOff21

    rAnD0Mz?!

    "At least I have chicken."

    mnfchen 4 years ago

  • Hmm...what?

    steph3001 4 years ago

  • -----Um...I believe Disney's "SnowWhite" is before to this...

    superzorak 4 years ago

  • ok and that comment had to do with this movie how?

    conrad2468 4 years ago

  • Maybe Gore and Franken are two of the three guys dancing . . .

    H5LL2O25 4 years ago

  • gets you thinking

    conrad2468 4 years ago

  • gets you thinking

    conrad2468 4 years ago

  • By Golly you're right; so who is the third stooge in US politics?

    benboyang 4 years ago

  • Oh so many to choose from . . .

    H5LL2O25 4 years ago

  • that guy whos like:

    "ELECTRONIC?"

    looks like hitler

    electricdude2706 4 years ago

  • THATS MOE!!!

    TEMPproductions 4 years ago

  • good

    singo 4 years ago

  • what? no he doesnt!

    stokes91 4 years ago