Idea 1

For one of my idea's i want to trace the subject frame by frame in flash to create and sketchy line drawn animation which i am sure will be be very effective. for this idea i am not worried about it being to difficult i just have to prepare myself because i am sure it is going to be time consuming.

this is a simple rotoscope of horses using flash as you can see the line wiggle and move each frame, this is the effect i want to achieve.



this is a rotoscope that one of my friends made. he used Flash and drew each frame one by one.



this is a quick mock up of the drawing i want to achieve and animate.

Ideas

after doing a little research into rotoscoping i have decided a few themes and ideas i want to approach. for the three films i want to create different styles of rotoscoping and i want to do this by using different programs and techniques. at the moment i am very keen on using Flash, After Effects and Photoshop to create my different films and i am sure that if i use these different programs that each rotoscope will have a different feel to it and i will achieve what i want. i want each film to have a different style as there are going to be 31 sections i have to be sure that i am not going to do the same style as anyone else.

take on me - A HA

classic song and this uses rotoscoping so well, transforming a comic into a live action. in this video you can easily see the rotoscoping and its in such great detail.

research

these are two videos i found where they have used rotoscoping, in the music video its alot more imaginative and maybe not all is rotoscoped from live footage. the second one is very basic, a little sketchy and it bounces all over the place.
i would like to achieve something inbetween the two.

New brief

Our latest brief is to rotoscope a dance routine performed by sussex downs dance students. we each get 3 sections of the film which was filmed at the college, after each of us edits our own sections they all get stiched together to one film with lots of different rotoscoping techniques which we have all done. once the film is completed it will be getting projected behind the dancers at the same time as the dance is performed to the public.

planning for the animation.

i want to research simple animations. i want my animation to be mainly in black and white, i feel that it would be easier to produce this and i only want to add colour when i feel it is necessary.









i am not going to hand draw my animation, but these videos are the best examples i can find of simple animations that are just black and white.

planning for the animation.