Rotoscoping
I hate rotoscoping, it´s not true animation. Just make-up.
sharewho cares? it looks cool.
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MovieChat Forums > Fire and Ice (1983) Discussion > Rotoscoping
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I think a lot of the rotoscoping in Bakshi's Lord of the Rings looks terrible. On the other hand, it looks great in Fire and Ice. I guess it depends on what kind of time/budget each film has.
shareDon't forget, all the motion capture for todays 3d films is basically rotoscoping.
shareDon't forget, all the motion capture for todays 3d films is basically rotoscoping.
Yes, it is referred to as digital rotoscoping. As is tracing when you create digital mattes. Although, the difference is that a digital roto artist aims to to composite an element into a shot without anyone noticing. So it doesn’t really have a specific look to it - classic rotoscoping does. share
If Rotoscoping and Mo-Cap are used as REFERENCE then it's fine. But if it's just plain out "trace every action exactly as it is without tweaking it at all" it looks really stiff and robotic.
You know why the mo-cap in Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson version) and King Kong (Peter Jackson) looks so good? It's because ANIMATORS went in and tweaked it so it won't look like a stiff piece of crap.
James
There is bad rotoscoping and good rotoscoping.
But in Lord of the Rings, Bakshi seemed to do nothing but rotoscoping. Nothing was done to make the characters more natural.
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I think the rotoscoping in Fire and Ice looks very good, a great film. In Bakshi's LOTR and to an exten in Wizards it is a bit flawed, but I like the stories in those movies.
share"There is Bad Rotoscopy and There is Good Rotoscopy..."
In RB's take on LOTR, the former was basically true...
In Fire and Ice, the latter.
It all boils down to the amount of time, and budget, you have and are going to spend on the project...
Also, Look at Heavy Metal: the movie. That had some rotoscopy in Taarna, the final chapter of the movie... it was fantastic, in that the model for the rotoscopy was Carole Desbiens, a fantastic and statuesque model from Quebec, which is where parts of the movie was shot, was chosen to be Taarna.
She was fantastic, then and one can only hope she looks like that, now...
Rotoscoping in 2006:
> A Scanner Darkly <
Some stills from the movie:
http://www.the-soap.com/winona/pictures/data/media/123/scanr-050.jpg (Woody)
http://www.the-soap.com/winona/pictures/data/media/123/scanr-051.jpg (Winona)
Absolutely amazing. I for one bow to Mr. Bakshi for reinventing the technique of rotoscoping in the 70s and keeping it alive.
Rotoscoping in Fire and Ice looks so good its not even funny.
shareRotoscoping can give fantastic results, how can anyone hate it?
It's no worse than motion capture these days.