Project 1 Research Rotoscoping

Rotoscoping is an animation technique used by animators to trace footage frame by frame in animated films and live action. Originally with Rotoscoping they use to project the live action film images onto a glass panel and the animators would redraw it but this was later replaced by computers. Rotoscopings was used in most animated films to trace things and to make the movements of the drawn characters feel realistic instead of imagine and guessing what the movement was, It was used for this purpose In Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs.
The Rotoscoping technique was invented by Max Fleischer he started using it in 1915 he used it for Out of The Inkwell, for his first bit of Rotoscoping he got his brother to dress up as one of the characters and he used the footage as a live action reference for the character. Rotoscoping has been used in things such as The Yellow Submarine, Looney Tunes, Charlie Brown, Flash Gordon, He-man. Martin Scorsese used Rotoscoping in The Last Waltz to get ride of some cocaine hanging from Neil Young's nose.
The Rotoscoping in The Lord Of The Rings animated film it is quite easy to tell when its being used because it is in a different tone and colour compared to the other parts of the film.
In The Beatles Yellow Submarine film they used some Rotoscoping for the Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds sequence. It looks like it was used for the people dancing in the sequence without knowing what Rotoscoping it was and what it was used for I don't think I would of know when it was being used and wouldn't have noticed it, but in the sequence I think it quite noticeable when its being used but I think its very effective because the video and songs suppose to be quite trippy and it fits nicely with the art style of the entire film and fits a lot better than the movement Rotoscoping in the animated Lord Of The Rings sequence.
I think Rotoscoping would be very useful in after effects when masking out something supporting a character or object to make them float or fly and it would fit in easily for the superhero film unit, but I don't think the part of Rotoscoping that they used in Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs and The Yellow Submarine (tracing the movement of a character) because I don't think it would fit well with the superhero unit but it would be very useful if we ever did any animating. I have done a bit of masking before by making a Lego figure fly I had to go into every shot a erase the support beam in the shots and I found it very long and tedious and I wasn't at all pleased with the final product.