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{{trope}}
▲[[File:Waking_Life_rotoscoping_372.jpg|link=A Scanner Darkly|right]]
'''Rotoscoping''' is the process of drawing animation over live-action film.
[[Max and Dave Fleischer]] invented the process in [[The Silent Age of Animation|1915]] to
[[Disney]] Studios had used rotoscoping from ''[[Snow White and
Rotoscoping has been used lightly (to create realistic movements for otherwise stylized characters) and heavily (nearly tracing an entire actor's movements, form, and facial expressions). The downside of heavy rotoscoping is that the animated actors tend to teeter on the edge of the [[Uncanny Valley]].
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More recently, computer technology has created new life for rotoscoping as a medium, allowing for much greater detail and smoother movement. Fully computer-generated characters are [[Serkis Folk]], much like fully animated characters give it the [[Roger Rabbit Effect]].
However, rotoscoping has gotten a bad reputation among the animation community, including men such as [[Richard Williams]], [[
Compare [[Motion Capture]], which is how computers do it these days.
{{examples
== [[Advertising]] ==
* The [http://www.slate.com/id/2131287/ Talk to Chuck] ads for Charles Schwab, directed by Bob Sabiston, the developer of the Rotoshop software used on ''Waking Life'', ''A Scanner Darkly'', etc.▼
* A series of bumpers for Nickelodeon that was produced by Buck.▼
== [[Film]] ==
* The lightsaber effects in the original ''[[Star Wars]]'' trilogy. Rotoscoping is still the word you would use to describe the prequel trilogy's lightsabers, but it's the modern computer-aided version.
* ''[[Heavy Metal (
* [[Ralph Bakshi]] did extensive rotoscoping; ''[[Wizards]]'', ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', ''[[
* [[Don Bluth]]'s ''[[Anastasia]]'' and ''[[Titan
* ''[[Waking Life]]'' (digitally, using software called Rotoshop.)
* ''[[A Scanner Darkly]]'', from the same director and producer as ''[[Waking Life]]'', used this to good effect.
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== [[Music Videos]] ==
* [[Dire Straits]], "Money for Nothing".
** By extension, [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s parody "Money For Nothing/[[The Beverly Hillbillies|Beverly Hillbillies]]"
* [[A-ha]], "Take on Me".
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEVfHmjKOrM&ob=av2e Shadrach]" by the [[Beastie Boys]] features a heavily stylised example of Rotoscoping.
* Spoon, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dInnbQrYVhQ Everything Hits At Once]" and Zero 7, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZncATpZre_w Destiny]", both directed by ''Waking Life'' animators.
* [[Kanye West]], "Heartless". It's a tribute to ''[[
* The video for "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUbqOcMlD7I&feature=related Electric Surfing Go Go]" by POLYSICS flashes between this and live action.
* [[
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The original ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' and its sequel.
** And before that, it was in ''[[Karateka]]'', developed by the same guy behind PoP.
* ''[[Another World (
* ''[[Flashback (
* Smoking Car Productions's ''[[The Last Express]]'' (by the same developer as ''Prince of Persia'').
* A few [[SNK]] fighters, most famously ''[[Art of Fighting]] 3''.
** SNK is using a similar technical for ''[[King of Fighters]]'' XII and XIII. Instead of live action, the animation is drawn over CG models.
*** Arc System used a similar technique for ''[[
* [[Street Fighter|Elena's]] animations look a little different from the rest of the ''[[Street Fighter]] III'' cast, largely because all of her animation was rotoscoped. This was probably done because capoeira may have been too daunting for the artists to hand animate convincingly.
* ''[[Hotel Dusk: Room 215]]'' and it's sequel, ''[[Last Window]]''. Actors and actresses are brought in, and they are filmed performing various movements. The most essential "frames" of their movements are then drawn over and spliced together to create the grainy, film-noir novel style.
** You can watch the "behind the scenes" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv6L26DZYEs video here].
* The ''[[Just Dance]]'' games.
* The kiss scene between Blair and Angel in ''[[Wing Commander (
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[Filmation]] did this to get stock footage for all its animated series: ''[[He
** Filmation's ''[[Star Trek:
*** Which might explain why a number of fans have noted they felt that the remastered CGI effect version of the Enterprise reminds them of the look of the animated Enterprise.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46PXaJxzuDE This video] pretty clearly uses rotoscoping, although you may not notice it in the face of [[Ear Worm|Mormon Jeezus]].
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* ''[[Out of the Inkwell]]'' invented this trope and used it to animate Koko, but it was quickly discarded.
* The classic Fleischer [[Superman]] cartoons used ''very good'' rotoscoping for the main characters, thanks to their lavish budget.
* ''[[Max
* Another Fleischer's feature-length cartoon, ''[[Mr. Bug Goes to Town]]'', does this with ''human'' characters (who, however, appear very ''little'').
* Some [[Looney Tunes]] shorts used this; a few notable examples are in the climax of "Daffy The Commando" the climax scene of Hitler giving his speech, and in "Hollywood Steps Out" with some of the dancing celebrities.
** In 1967, Warner Bros. had merged with Seven Arts which had acquired the 1931-43 black-and-white Looney Tunes shorts from absorbing Guild Films, who in turn acquired them from Sunset Films (believed to be a W-B dummy distribution firm). At that time, W-B had 75 of those cartoons shipped to Korea to be
*** King Features had the same thing done in 1986 with the Fleischer BW [[Popeye]] cartoons.
* The little-known, less-seen, and not-entirely-completed masterpiece ''Happy New Year, Planet Earth'' (never released owing to licensing and contractual issues). A Canadian cross between ''Heavy Metal'' and ''Yellow Submarine'' set to music by the band Klaatu, it is mostly rotoscoped.
* [[Felix the Cat: The Movie]] uses this to animate the princess.
* The animation of [[Josie and
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' uses this on occasion, usually for complex dance sequences (such as the Jitterbug song in one episode).
▲* The [http://www.slate.com/id/2131287/ Talk to Chuck] ads for Charles Schwab, directed by Bob Sabiston, the developer of the Rotoshop software used on ''Waking Life'', ''A Scanner Darkly'', etc.
▲* A series of bumpers for Nickelodeon that was produced by Buck.
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[[Category:Rotoscoping]]
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