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Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which a single frame of film or video is outlined or colorized and then superimposed onto a background. This can be done using color key or chroma key.
Rotoscoping was first used by early animators to imitate live action by painting individual frames of film.
Gustave Doré was a 19th century engraver whose illustrations appear in such literary masterpieces as the Bible, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Paradise Lost, The Idylls of the King, The Divine Comedy and The Raven.
I have loved Doré's Bible engravings ever since I first saw them. I have always used these prints in my publications and videos. A few years ago, I saw an interesting effect on a program on The History Channel in which pieces of Doré's line art were traces and then rotoscoped. Since his work is public domain, it's a cheap way of creating graphics for use in documentaries.
I immediately thought of a method by which this could easily be done. It is time consuming but very easy.
Here is my tutorial on "Rotoscoping Doré."
Applications: Adobe Photoshop and Final Cut Pro (or similar applications).
1. In the first part of the video you see the original engraving. Then I took the "clone stamp" tool in Photoshop and removed the images that would later be rotoscoped.
In the third clip, I've used Final Cut to tint the background with a light brown color that gives it a neutral antique look.
2. The individual images are then outlined with a pencil tool in Photoshop. I try to be as fine as possible by enlarging the image. Then everything else is colored. I've used this bright green color that can easily be color keyed in Final Cut. But any color could be used.
3. The image of Mary is imported to Final Cut and tinted (a light blue) and given motion and a shadow against a looping background or a "jumpback."
4. The same is done with another clip of Gabriel. Note that in order to keep these fine lines from "running" on the screen, a blur effect must be added. Some of the professional documentaries using this effect don't pay enough attention to their problem which can be very distracting to the eye. The blur has to be just enough to eliminate the problem, but not so much that it obscures the fine beauty of the line art.
5. The images are combined. In the final rendering, I've given the Doré background a 50 percent transparency against a "red laser show" jumpback. This creates a nice background for the images to move across.
6. Finally text, music and voice-over are added.
I usually use this effect as a background for Bible verses in my videos.
I've seen beautifully elaborate uses of this effect elsewhere. The images can be faded in and out, moved, zoomed and a hundred other effects can be combined to make each attempt unique.
You'll find this is time consuming, but easy to do. These effects take some time to render. I am not 100 percent happy with the way this one turned out (there are some perspective issues) but rather than spend more time altering it, I decided to leave it as is at least for the purpose of this tutorial.
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