- Rotoshop
Rotoshop is a proprietary
graphic sediting program created byBob Sabiston . Rotoshop uses an animation technique called interpolated rotoscoping, which has been used in Richard Linklater's films "Waking Life " and "A Scanner Darkly", as well as the music video for the song "Destiny" byZero 7 [http://www.katecorcorangallery.com/animation.html as of 2/11/2007] and the Talk to Chuck advertising campaign for Charles Schwab. [cite news| last = Stevenson| first = Seth| title = Money Toons: The distinctive animated ads from Charles Schwab.| publisher = Slate| date =2005 -12-05 | url = http://www.slate.com/id/2131287/ ] The name is a play on "Photoshop", a photo editing program from Adobe. The software is not currently available for use outside Flat Black Films. [http://www.flatblackfilms.com/Rotoshop.html as of 5/1/2007]Aims
The software was developed in order to do extremely lifelike hand-drawn animation - specifically, to animate the types of expressions and gestures people make that ordinarily would not be scripted into someone's film. Every person has minute speech and movement characteristics that uniquely identifies him or her. This type of animation emphasizes these characteristics.
Use
Interpolation
Like
Fantavision andAdobe Flash , Rotoshop allows forinterpolation between keyframes. Once the artist has drawn key frames at the start and end of a time period, the program automatically generates intermediate frames. It is a simple form of "automatictweening ." Interpolated lines and shapes have a very smooth, fluid motion that is extremely difficult to achieve by hand-drawing each line.Freezing
In order to manage different objects in the scene, the user can break the drawing into layers. A layer can be "frozen" so that a single drawing remains visible throughout the entire scene. This feature is necessary for backgrounds and other things that do not change shape through time. This frees the user from having to draw the same image 24 times for every second of a scene.
References
External links
*http://www.flatblackfilms.com/Rotoshop.html
* [http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/23423/Rotoshop_Animation.html Rotoshop Feature at TechTV Vault]
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