Group Rotoscope Project
This is a project that was created by myself and four other students, Gaby Romero, Matthew Zethren, Addison Joost, and Celine Diz, in our Survey of Computer Art Applications Course.
What is a Rotoscope?
Rotoscoping is the process of animating over pre-existing footage of a person. For this project, we each got a 6 second clip of a song and were tasked with recording ourselves catching and throwing an object, and drawing over the frames of our video to create an animation
The Process
Background
First, conceptual background art was created in photoshop, giving a rough map of what we wanted to showcase in our short clip. For myself, I created an image of Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach, Oregon, where I currently live. I wanted to bring a piece of home back to me while I was away at college.
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Once a concept had been decided, it was taken into illustrator where, like making cut paper, we took shapes and built our concept images from the ground up. Each individual piece of the image is it's own shape on a separate layer
Photoshop
Our videos were then taken into photoshop, and each frame, or still image, in the video was drawn over first with line art, then color was added. Finally, the background was put into place and the section of rotoscoping was complete.
After Effects
Lastly, all of our groups rotoscopes were put into Adobe After Effects to create animated moving text to lay over our video and the final product is the video above.