EX.6 Rotoscoping

IF YOU THOUGH ANIMATING WAS TIMECONSUMING, TRY ROTOSCOPING.... ok now i have that out of my system, ehem..... rotoscoping, a lovely technique, absolutely brilliant if its useful and suitable for whatever you are working on, i rotoscoped images for a final year animation in foundation, but that was rotoscoping one image then animating it myself from there.... ive never had the .... pleasure of rotoscoping film.... and hopefully i never will again.
I think everyones allowed preferences to how they work. i dont like designers who aren't generalists, i mean every project will need a specialist but come on, you need to know how to work more than one programme to make a living these days, and im pretty sure the same software day after day would get old.
Now i hope to be a generalist, i doubt id ever consider myself a specialist in anything, not even a job title never mind software HOWEVER .... if and where possible thre is the option in a rotoscoping job and a different one, im pretty sure ill choose the other one.

So one of my biggest problems with rotoscoping was, i had no ideas. and i mean ZERO ideas. Truth be told i started the next excersise and part of the one after that before i actually got an idea for rotoscoping.
I know sometimes you get a lack of ideas, ut zero ideas? when does that ever happen, its definitely a first for me. and it didnt help just about everyone had an idea straight off, and they were seriously interesting ideas at that.
So how did i get the idea? well.... not to sound like the crazy cat lady i think im turning into this semester, i was home, wrecking my brain, not a decent thought could i muster, until the cat came in (seriously if i pass this class, i think the cat needs thanked)
The cat sauntered in, decided i shouldnt be doing uni work in its presence again and wanted attention, and attention it got, after all i was in one of those 'i will do anything as long as its not work related' moods.
So i played with the cat, ended up mimicking its every movement, and yeah..... that ended up being my genius idea.
rotoscope me and the cat.... i developed the idea where it wasnt just me or th cat, one half was the cat and the other me.
So the cat got dragged back for more attention, which it was not pleased at, thus why the rotoscope is rather dull. I recorded the cat blinking, looking about and then turning its head to the side, then recorded me doing the same, unfortunately it wasnt perfectly timed in the end, but considering it was this or a rotoscope of nothing, im happy i finally rotoscoped something, tell you what i was more happy about though, to be FINISHED rotoscoping something.
If i thought animating was time consuming i clearly never worked on a proper rotoscope animation before. Its not only that its shaky and time consuming, i feel its only suitable for certain animations, i mean, rotoscoping someone just walking across the screen isnt really animating, its just copying, its boring. if it was to crate something interesting then rotoscope is useful, otherwise, i find it a long way about cheating.

Like ive done previously, to give a little interest to the animation, and to differentiate the characters, i gave me and the cat two different colours, and then thought making the eyes have even more colour would make the movements more obvious. I must say, very pleased that its not a blank screen,  and to all you that think rotoscoping is an amazing technique ad you love it, thats fine, you can have it. i whole heartedly insist.