Re: [Algorithms] Terminology Help

[BSteve B. <st...@li...>]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Pai-Hung Chen wrote:

> Could someone explain briefly to me what is "rotoscoping" used in animation?
 
I believe it refers to manually tracing over live-action movie frames in order
to get realistic movement in a cartoon.

Presumably, a 'Rotoscope' is some kind of optical instrument that projects
the movie frames onto the tracing surface...dunno about that though.

Motion-capture in a pre-computer age!

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