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How to Rotoscope – Draw Animation with the Help of Video Camera

Gina
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v8.6.3 and later

Making rotoscope animation is easy with Animation Desk. Rotocoping is a common technique to capture and movement of characters with the help of the real-life scene.

If you are interested to know more about this technique, please read on "SECRET WEAPON FOR ANIMATORS: ROTOSCOPING".

You can build animation upon the existing videos. Select “Camera Roll” when creating a new Sequence.

 

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After importing your videos. You can edit the video FPS or enable the app to rotoscope the video.

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Tap “Start” once you are done. Below is a comparison of a video and its rotoscope version.

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Before v8.4

 

You need to have a video to make rotoscope animations. Choose “Import Video” when adding a new sequence.

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 Choose a clip.

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Click on “Rotoscoping” in the button of the window.

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Animation Desk breaks the video in to frames, and imports these frames into your sequence. You can start to create animations base on the frames. 

 

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Comments

3 comments

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  • jamesryanmaier

    The video import is so washed out when rotoscope is selected that much of the image is lost. An ability to adjust the brightness/contrast or opacity of the original video would be a nice addition. As it stands, I have to preadjust the opacity of my videos before importing them to animation desk. Your roto isn’t quite usable:( Otherwise, great app!

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  • Gina

    Hello, thank you for the feedback on the rotoscope. I have forwarded your suggestions to the team. Thanks!

     

    Gina, Customer Support Team

     

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  • Adam

    Once you import the video into the background how do you alter it change it opacity etc

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