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	Rotoscope
		Rotoscoping is the process of manually altering film or video footage one frame at a time.
		While the technique is useful for animation, rotoscoping eventually became an important tool for visual effects in general.
		The rotoscope artists were at the mercy of the painters who would later fill in their outlines, and who could with a few stray brushstrokes outside the outline make the image suddenly jittery.
	www.measurand.com /motion-capture-resources/motion-capture-history-rotoscope.htm (5239 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Rotoscope
		Rotoscoping is a technique where animators trace live action movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films.
		While rotoscoping is generally known to bring a sense of realism to larger budget animated films, the American animation company Filmation, known for its budget-cutting limited TV animation, was also notable for its heavy usage of rotoscope to good effect in series such as Flash Gordon, Blackstar and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.
		Rotoscoping has also been used to allow a special visual effect (such as a glow, for example) to be guided by the matte or rotoscoped line.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rotoscope (3319 words)

	Rotoscope
		A rotoscope is a device that enables animators to trace live action movement, frame by frame, for use in animation.
		The rotoscope was used in a number of later Fleischer cartoons as well, most notably the Cab Calloway dance routines in three Betty Boop cartoons from the early 1930s, and the animation of Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels.
		Because of this special-effects usage, in computer graphics, to rotoscope''' is to create an animated matte indicating the shape of an object or actor at each frame of a sequence, as would be used to composite a CGI element into the background of a live action shot.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/r/ro/rotoscope.html (338 words)

	Rotoscoping In AM Tutorial
		The Animation: Master manual covers Rotoscoping, but after talking with several people who were struggling with rotoscope concepts (and by extrapolation, viewing 3D space) and I felt I could add some value by explaining it in more detail.
		In order for the rotoscopes to be useful they must be synchronized...remember the tracing paper example, if you were using two different pictures and tracing, if the pictures were different sizes it would make life really difficult.
		Once your happy that the rotoscopes are scaled and positioned correctly go into their properties and uncheck the "pickable" box, this prevent you from accidentally selecting them and changing them.
	www.markbsplace.net /3d/rotoscope-tutorial.htm (1531 words)

	Rotoscope
		In computer graphics, to rotoscope is to create an animated matte indicating the shape of an object or actor at each frame of a sequence, as would be used to composite a CGI element into the background of a live-action shot.
		Historically, a rotoscope was a kind of projector used to create frame-by-frame alignment between filmed live-action footage and hand-drawn animation.
		Mounted at the top of an animation stand, a rotoscope projected filmed images down through the actual lens of the animation camera and onto the page where animators draw and compose images.
	www.3drender.com /glossary/rotoscope.htm (109 words)

	washingtonpost.com: MP3
		Based in Arlington Virginia, ROTOSCOPE is five people--John Athayde (Lead Vocals, Guitar, Laptop); Courtney Totushek (Lead vocals, Guitar, Keyboards); Dave McGregor (Drums and Percussion); Marc Milot (Guitar, Keyboards); and Carl Raether (Bass Guitar).
		ROTOSCOPE is the result of what happens when two local bands share the same vision and personnel--the merger was inevitable, but the result was the best of both worlds.
		Although they’ve often been described as a female fronted Coldplay, ROTOSCOPE could actually be classified, (if it were ever necessary) as an experimental or innovative dual-fronted alternative band.
	mp3.washingtonpost.com /bands/rotoscop.shtml (298 words)

	Camera Rotoscope Properties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		To allow the rotoscope translation and scale to work seamless when rendered at different resolutions, the values must be stored as a percentage of the width, and height rather than discreet pixel locations.
		Normally, rotoscope images go behind all of the models in a rendering, however, the “Render on top” option on the Rotoscope Properties panel causes the rotoscope to go in front of everything.
		Front rotoscopes are useful for simulating control panels, window frames, or a hand holding a gun, like in a shoot ‘em up.
	www.hash.com /htmlHelp/v10.5/CustomHtml/Camera_Rotoscope_Properties.htm (272 words)

	Rotoscope Information
		Rotoscoping is a technique where animators trace live action movement, frame by frame, for use in animated cartoons.
		Rotoscoping has also been used to allow a special visual effect (such as a glow, for example) to be guided by the matte or rotoscoped line.
		The term "rotoscoping" (typically abbreviated as "roto") is now generally used for the corresponding all-digital process of tracing outlines over digital film images to produce digital mattes.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Rotoscope (811 words)

	Rotoscope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Rotoscoping is a technique where animators trace live action movement, frame by frame, for use in animated cartoons.
		Rotoscoping was also used in Heavy Metal, the 1985 A-ha music video Take on Me, and Don Bluth's Titan A.E. Smoking Car Productions invented a digital rotoscoping process in 1994 for the creation of its critically-acclaimed adventure game The Last Express.
		Additionally, a 2005-06 advertising campaign by Charles Schwab uses rotoscoping for a series of television spots, under the tagline "Talk to Chuck." This distinctive look is the work of Bob Sabiston, an MIT Media Lab veteran who brought the same "interpolated rotoscoping" technique to the Richard Linklater films Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3Drotoscope%26type%3Den (805 words)

	Cooper Face
		Rotoscopes are very handy things when it comes to modeling.
		Simply put when it comes to rotoscopes, it would be really handy if the world had no perspective.
		Notice that I also set some transparency to the rotoscope so that it is easier to see the splines on top.
	www.colins-loft.net /new_coop_tutorial/CoopFace.html (1407 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films.
		This projection equipment is called a rotoscope, although this device has been replaced by computers in recent years.
		It was used extensively in the Soviet Union, where it was known as "Ãclair", from the late 1930s to the 1950s; its historical use was enforced as a realization of Socialist Realism.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=rotoscope (917 words)

	MySpace.com - Rotoscope - Washington, US - Rock / Alternative / Electronica - www.myspace.com/rotoscope
		Rotoscope is a band from Washington DC with a broad and varied cast of characters including (present and past) John Athayde, Courtney Totushek, Eduardo Rios, Leyla Akdogan, Jaime Martin, Brian Frederick, Dave McGregor, Marc Milot, Carl Raether, Drew Pathwick, Phil Golub, and more.
		"Rotoscope continues to win over live audiences with their full, rich blend of natural instruments, vocal harmonies and electronic enhavements that make for a full rock sound in the vein of Radiohead, Peter Gabriel and U2, on Rotoscope has the distinct feminine touch of Courtney Totushek to set them apart..."
		I dig Rotoscope like fat kids dig cake...the only thing that would make them better is a west coast tour...more specifically Seattle...one of you still has to sign my boobs...(Court it could be you...but what would your parents think??!?)...
	www.myspace.com /rotoscope (782 words)

	Rotoscope Cartoon Shader for Doom III - Mod DB
		Rotoscope is a graphical modification for Doom3, which enables high quality, real-time cartoon shading.
		Rotoscope can be used to make realistically looking comic stories, it can supply artistic effects for machinima, or it can simply be used to re-experience the classic Doom3 experience with a new "look-and-feel".
		Rotoscoping is the animation technique used in that movie.
	mods.moddb.com /7612/rotoscope-cartoon-shader (404 words)

	Newswise
		Director Richard Linklater and animator Bob Sabiston, however, have employed the rotoscoping technique for a hard-to-achieve blend of impressionistic realism and surrealistic comic-book-like strangeness to capture the essence of a book of the same title, first published in 1977 by late science fiction author Philip K. Dick.
		The funky effect of rotoscoping was first popularized by cartoonists around the 1930s.
		What came about was an advanced form of rotoscoping, and platforms like the Mac G4 and Mac5 computers---almost an industry standard in the CGI and feature film worlds -- allowed Bob to work at full throttle.
	www.newswise.com /articles/view/521943/? (821 words)

	Max Fleischer, Rotoscope, Superman, Song, Car-Tune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Rotoscope was used to great effect by the Fleischer crew, in particular on several of the early 'Out of the Inkwell' films and in the later Superman series.
		The Rotoscope is not completely forgotten, though, as director Richard Linklater is using a version of it for his 2001 film 'Waking Life'.
		Like the Rotoscope, the Rotograph was used to enhance the early films of Fleischer, particularly in the 'Out of the Inkwell' series which featured the first Fleischer star, Koko the Clown.
	www.digitalmediafx.com /Features/maxfleischerp.html (1438 words)

	Stop Motion Pro - the easy to use tool for creating animated films
		A key function of the rotoscope is the ability to syncronise your video clip with the animation as you capture.
		Your rotoscope image has to be "synced" to your animation for this option to work, see step 4.
		Move the rotoscope opacity slider on the Rotoscope window to adjust the transparency between your rotoscope footage and animated character.
	www.stopmotionpro.com /tutorial_rotoscope.htm (696 words)

	Rotoscope Encyclopedia
		Over the course of just six months, he rotoscoped and rendered the entire movie in his apartment on four Apple...
		In those days, animation clearly was a profession to which women needed not apply...
		Artist David Sullivan used the Discreet Logic Flame to perform rotoscope and compositing effects that integrate Chester and Daffy into the live action.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Rotoscope.html (111 words)

	Rotoscope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The rotoscope can be used to import an AVI file for reference to the animation you are creating.
		The frame in the rotoscope file is displayed in the "Rotoscope frame" window and the frame in the animation is displayed in the "Stored frame" window.
		The visibility of the Rotoscope image is set on the main toolbar Rotoscope slider.
	www.stopmotionpro.com /help/hs50.htm (280 words)

	fxguide.com - Art of Roto
		Rotoscoping is the process of manually altering film or video footage one frame at a time.
		The rotoscope artists were at the mercy of the painters who would later fill in their outlines, and who could with a few stray brushstrokes outside the outline make the image suddenly jittery.
		Rotoscoping software works using splines, which are a series of points connected by a line or curve.
	www.fxguide.com /fxtips-243-print.html (5250 words)

	Rotoscope - Definition, explanation
		Poor-quality rotoscoping has slight deviations from the true line that differ from frame to frame, which when animated cause the animated line to "boil".
		Richard Linklater produced a digitally rotoscoped feature called Waking Life, creating a surreal image of live action footage, a technique which is now being used to produce the movie A Scanner Darkly.
		For Wizards, Bakshi was refused by 20th Century Fox for a $50,000 budget increase to finish the movie, thus he had to resort to rotoscoping in WIZARDS.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/r/ro/rotoscope.php (624 words)

	RE: Rotoscope woes -- Kim Aldis -- 2000/12/28
		I did some 16x9 rotoscoping a while back and was annoyed to find it stretching my view vertically to 4x3.
		If not best thing is to set off on a voyage of discovery, figure out +how+ it's wrong; scaling the rendered image to see what you need to do to make it fit is a good start.
		Problem is, when you switch to rotoscope you have no control over pic ratio any more, so if XSI gets it wrong, you're stuffed.
	www.softimage.com /community/xsi/discuss/archives/xsi.archive.0012/msg00344.htm (310 words)

	XSI Base Forum - Rotoscope reference image wrecked by frame-objects
		Apparently that command ignores the rotoscope lock because it wrecks the transform of the model in front of the rotoscoped image.
		rotoscope mode (unless you use it in the perspective viewport with a keyed camera) is just a serious pain in the arse imo, and all this "never hit f" or "use the memocams" doesnt quite cut it either.
		if you use rotoscope, and you're using a small image or small video file/sequence to rotoscope, then you're visible work area in the viewport can be minscule when trying to line up perspectives etc. just not practical.
	www.xsibase.com /forum/index.php?board=16;action=display;threadid=16850;prev_next=next (724 words)

	Welcome to the AnimatorDV Home!
		In order to change the imported rotoscope file, one must remove it and import another one into its place.
		Rotoscope frames are visible in rotoscope window only.
		If the current frame is the last frame in the active sequence, rotoscope shows a synchronous + one frame forward.
	www.animatordv.com /sshots15 (263 words)

	Speed Reading Computer Program - Virtual Rotoscope
		The Virtual Rotoscope is a simple and extremely useful utility.
		With the Virtual Rotoscope, most people can read 300 words per minute the instant they lay eyes on it.
		Most people look at the Rotoscope running at the default rate of three hundred and thirty-three words per minute, and read it just fine.
	calroc.home.mindspring.com /vr (416 words)

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