Rotoscopy in Photoshop

ROTOSCOPY IN PHOTOSHOP

In this week we learned about rotoscopy in  photoshop  . Its an animation that describes the process of creating animated sequences by tracing over live action footage frame by frame. though it is a time-consuming process it gives the animation a life-like and a  feel and touch of originality. 

As our first task was easy we just had to trace a moving buggy in a city with our imagination. and we were allowed to use brushes and swatches time line and video was provided. 

I started by setting up the photoshop same as i did in previous animation projects. This time we leaned about cutting the videos and making jump cuts first and then learned to increase or decrease the speed of video . As i brought the video in timeline by creating a layer and then pressing + option . I played around with jump cuts , scissor tools, presets of  photoshop like morph cut and dissolve for smooth cut between the frames. I started my main project by just cutting the footage and increasing the speed roughly to 300% . There after I picked up the brush and started creating the out line of the buggy it was a long process though frame rate was 10 fps . as soon as i was satisfied by the buggy. I started with two or three ideas on the different video layer so my this layers remains unharmed and undoable .  As we cant draw on smart objects,. It worked both ways. After finishing and adding some extra works . which took many trials and errors. I got the satisfying result. 


(THE FINAL RESULT)


The other task on same day was to create a rotoscopy of a human figure which is walking. To be honest after all projects this was surprisingly easy to do. After importing the footage which we downloaded from mixkit. We selected a full walk cycle and cutted it out from main footage using scissor tool . We made a new blank video layer and started again by brush tool i was sure to have a different layers for all different body parts . So i can undo any of mine mistake. so I duplicated the new video layer 5 times for legs , head , t shirt and head phones. I traced all of them for one full walk cycle. This time it was easy but lengthy because it has more frames like 12 fps . After the tracing was completed Selected all layers and made it into one smart object so i can loop it . Then i made my background. To give it a little Kick i added a text .( see it by yourself).

 

 






















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