Stills from one of my animation projects from college. There are other animation projects, but unless I stumble across some usable frames someday, I probably won't be putting them up.
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1993
Late
Digital rotoscope
This was a rotoscope project done with Chris Pirazzi for our Computers and Art Class. Rotoscoping is basically a technique where you draw directly onto the film/frames (they way they did the lightsabers in Star Wars I). Chris did all the camera work, editing, score and basic concept. I got to be Rotoscope-boy and do all the neat scribbly lines.
Luckily, we had better tools than Lucas did when they originally did Star Wars. Rather than having a million drudges hand painting frames on a movie reel, our whole process was done by one drudge (me) using a slew of neato-cool not-quite-working-right computers and tools.
After Chris filmed all the footage we needed, we copied all the frames onto laser disk. We then captured the selected frames (and sequences of frames) using a NeXT and some software written by another student to get the frames from the laser disk. We transferred the frames from the NeXT to a Mac, where I got to paint them with Adobe Photoshop and Fractal Design Painter. When we finished painting a frame, we'd move it onto an Iris for storage (because the Iris had the ability to write these frames back onto the laser disk). When they were all done, we recopied the unchanged footage while inserting the modified frames onto the laser disk again. It was then copied to a master tape and Chris edited and smoothed out any mistakes I had made, inserted the title and credit sequences, and lastly dubbed the tape.
This turned out to be a huge project, but it was also enormously fun. It's not everyday that you get to pop your actor's head off in a wave of cyan color!
