Rotoscoping

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

3

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What Wikipedia says

Rotoscoping is an animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action. Originally, live-action film images were projected onto a glass panel and traced onto paper.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Rotoscoping”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Patent by Max Fleischer, artist Unknown author cropped/retouched by Rl, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.