Rotoscope animation describes the process of creating animated sequences by tracing over live-action footage frame by frame. Though it can be time-consuming, rotoscoping allows animators to create lifelike characters who move just like people in the real world.
For nuke, we now started to learn about rotoscoping. In class, we learn about rotoscoping and how to translate this into the nuke file. We got a file delivered in which we had to make the rotoscope, this is a file of a man running over a bridge. While looking at the video you might think that it would be easy since the camera doesn’t seem to move by itself. but if you look really closely you will see that it shifts a bit to the right.
We got the assessment to firstly rotoscope the man running towards us. He showed us how to start with the basic Rotonode, I made 5 different Rotoscopes of the man running. This is because a lot of his body moves in different ways which, if you would do it in one rotoscope, would make it a very difficult assessment. So I did the 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 feet, torso, and head separately so I could also jump from frame 20 to frame 40 and it would still look quite nice. this way I only needed to adjust the Rotoscope a little bit. The rotoscope, in my opinion, could have been done a little better but it is mostly for me to understand how the tool works. For my first time doing a rotoscope, I think I quite get the hang of how the tool works.