Tag: All About Rotoscoping
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The Art of Rotoscoping
Animating Life Since 1917 Nearly a century before James Cameron transformed 5′ 7″ Zoe Saldaña into the nine-foot-tall Neytiri in Avatar, cartoonist Max Fleischer pioneered the first motion capture device in his Brooklyn living room. Consisting of a projector mounted behind a transparent easel, the rotoscope machine transformed the art of animation by allowing cartoon…