22/11/22 - Rotoscoping Part 1

In today's lesson, we began learning about rotoscoping. We first of all looked at some examples of rotoscoping on Padlet, to give us some inspiration, and get us used to how it can look. We then got to start working on our own piece of work. To do this, we first had to download a video of a buggy driving along a road, to use as our base image. We then had to open this video in Photoshop, so that we could edit it. On this Photoshop document, we had to make sure to have the correct tabs open, including Timeline, Layers, Brushes, and Swatches, so that we could do everything that we needed to. We then began editing this video on the timeline, making sure that it was first at 25fps, by drawing some lines in the water and coming from the buggy itself, on a new video layer, in different colours, and doing this for each frame as the video went along. We also added in some other colourful spots on the buildings in the background, to add to the effect that we were trying to create.

Later on in the day, we used the skills that we had learnt earlier on, to create a rotoscoped video of a man walking along listening to his music. To do this, we first had to download our base video from Mixkit, and then open this in Photoshop, on a 1920xx1080px sized canvas, transforming its size to make the person better fit the screen. We then opened the same tabs as before, and changed the frame rate of the timeline to be 10fps. We then began our work, by opening a new layer, and tracing the person with a 10px brush, with the colour of our choice - I chose a shade of Lime Green. We then went through each of the frames within the video, and re-traced the image for each different frame, so that when played in a loop, it looked like the traced character was walking along. We then added a new layer in, and filled it with one colour, to be our background. I chose black as my background colour, as I felt that it would really make the lime green of my character stand out. This piece of work was also similar to the animation of a walking person last week, as the character always stays in the middle of the screen and doesn't actually move, even though because of the moving background, it looks like it is walking along the road.

Young man walking listening to music from his headphones - Free Stock Video (mixkit.co)


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