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Rotoscopeing

 

Rotoscoping is a technique that allows you to create animation that mimics live action video. For example, a live actor may be filmed doing a series of actions, and the animatorwould have the digital character mimic the actions of the human actor for a realistic animated scene.  The rotoscoping technique was invented by Max Fleischer, who used it in his series "Out of the Inkwell" in 1915. Rotoscoping is an animation technique where animators will trace over footage they took, frame by frame, for use in andanimated films and shorts.

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Max Fleischer, born july 19 Krakau, 1883 - September 11, 1972. was an ananimator, inventor, film director and producer. who invented the technique called rotoscopeing. he was most known for Superman [1941] and Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor [1936]. He was awarded U.S. "Method of Producing Moving Picture Cartoons," for the rotoscope, which allowed film footage of a live figure to be used as a guide for drawing an animated figure.His son Richard Fleischer was hired by Walt Disney [Max's main competitor] to direct Disney's blockbuster 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). 

 

Max Fleischer

Max produced some of the first war training films for the U.S. Army.

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