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What-Is-Rotoscoping?

Rotoscoping, also known as roto, is an animation technique in which animators trace a projection of live-action footage frame by frame to produce realistic character movements. In early animated films, animators traced over glass panels to create 2D animation with characters that moved like real people.

10 Movies With Amazing Visual Effects

The majority of big-budget productions use CGI to create realistic imagery, but not all attain excellence in the pursuit of blurring the line between reality and fantasy. Today's mind-blowing VFX owe a great debt of thanks to the films that came before them, many of which evolved the technology of digital imagery alongside the development of cinema itself.

Latest VFX Trends

Some general trends and areas of interest that were emerging in the VFX industry up to that point, and it's possible that some of these trends have continued or evolved.

Relevance of Rotoscoping in VFX

Rotoscoping is a crucial technique in the field of Visual Effects (VFX) with significant relevance. It involves tracing over live-action footage frame by frame to isolate elements, such as characters or objects, from their background.

Guardians Vol3: How they delivered those brilliant CG character performances

In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 we got to see Rocket Raccoon’s backstory and the friends that Rocket first met in the sadistic lab of the High Evolutionary. This story is the last in this series, check out the Fxpodcast with Stephane Ceretti, the Production Visual Effects Supervisor here and Hallyway Behind the scenes here.

Introduction: The Magic of Rotoscoping

In the world of filmmaking, innovation knows no bounds. One such creative technique that has left an indelible mark on the industry is rotoscoping. Often dubbed as a marriage between animation and reality, rotoscoping has been captivating audiences for decades with its unique blend of art and technology.

ILM’s VFX Help Marvel Studios ‘Wing It’ in ‘Black Widow’

The storied visual effects studio delivers 800 shots, tackling the high-octane opening small plane escape scenes, a Budapest shoot-out and car chase across the city, and the widows fight in villain Dreykov’s flying HQ, in Marvel Studios’ most recent MCU action-thriller.

Goodbye Kansas Shares ‘The Irregulars’ VFX Breakdown Reel

The company’s London and Stockholm offices delivered 229 VFX shots and 20 assets for the Netflix crime drama about the Baker Street Irregulars, based on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Lessons Learnt for Machine Learning VFX

Ryan Laney has a long history of using technology to support storytelling for films and special interest projects. He recently completed work on the documentary feature Welcome to Chechnya where he worked with the filmmakers to develop and employ a novel technique to protect identities.

Scanline VFX Tackles the Cosmic Rewind in ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League

Led by VFX supervisor Bryan Hirota, studio delivers 1,000 visual effects shots across 22 sequences, from Steppenwolf’s complete redo to the Flash’s epic time reversal.

Virtual Production at Stargate Studios

Sam Nicholson ASC and Stargate Studios have released a video outlining their work in shooting virtual productions. The test piece was shot by Jody Eldred, and it explores Stargate Studio’s recent test of their newest virtual production techniques using their ThruView process.

WATCH: 2 Featurettes Showcase Cinesite’s VFX on ‘Fate: The Winx Saga

Overall VFX supervisor Simon Stanley-Clamp and his London team create the magical world of Alfea College, the ancient boarding school for fairies at the center of the otherworldly Netflix live-action series.

2020 Oscars: Best Visual Effects

Take a look at the nominees for Best Visual Effects from the 2020 Oscars, and see which artists we think should win the Academy Award.

Watch: Pixomondo’s ‘Raised by Wolves’ Season 1 VFX Breakdown Reel

Studio’s VFX supervisors Ed Hawkins, Max Riess, and Mark Spindler highlight their teams’ work delivering around 520 shots on HBO Max and Ridley Scott’s hit sci-fi thriller, which has been renewed for Season 2.

First Look: Mocha Pro 2021

Mocha is easily the leading planar tracking software available and the last several releases have seen improvements in regards to the utilization of the generated tracks, both in regards to applying the tracking data inside the app as well as exporting to various host applications.

Disguising LED Virtual Production Stages

Disguise is the platform for creatives and technologists to imagine, create and deliver spectacular visual experiences. fxguide covered their work on the film Solo: A Star Wars Story. The team at Lux Machina used the disguise specialist projection mapping software to handle the immersive environment created by the virtual sets.

Imageworks Making a Mountain Avalance Battle Escape For Mulan

In Disney’s Mulan, filmmaker Niki Caro brings to life the epic tale of China’s legendary warrior. One of the main visual effects suppliers was Sony Pictures Imageworks.

How Amazon's Undone used rotoscope technique to bring animated characters to life

In Undone, Alma loses her grip on reality as she travels in time which is also an aspect of rotoscoping, elaborates the video, as the characters appear to move and gesticulate as we do in real life and yet there is something that's not real about it and that's that animation visual look.

What is Rotoscoping? Learn All About This Animation Technique

Rotoscoping is the technique used by animators to create realistic motion. In essence, it helps add more life to animated actions, characters, and objects because they were designed from live-footage

Special effects in movies: 10 All Time Greatest VFX Movies

Most people have their favourite examples of special effects in movies. Creating the best visual effects is an integral and exciting part of film making, and every so often a movie comes out that's a VFX game-changer.

How is Digital 3-D different from old 3-D movies?

Today's computer-animated movies do a pretty good job of imitating three-dimensional environments. In films like "The Incredibles," "Cars" and the "Shrek" series, characters seem to exist as solid objects that can move and interact with their surroundings.

Togo: Dogs and Digital Autochrome

Disney+’s Togo is the story of Leonhard Seppala and his lead dog Togo, who completed the longest section of the Great Race of Mercy, the famed sled dog relay that brought diphtheria antitoxin across the U.S. territory of Alaska.

Working From Home? Here are Five Ways to Stay Productive.

As we navigate through these difficult times, here are five ways VFX artists can take advantage of working from home.

Best VFX sequences of the last decade?

At the start of 2020 and with the Oscars focusing our attention on the best visual effects of 2019, we cast the net wider to ask: ‘What were the best visual effects sequences of the last decade?

Why India is Preferred for VFX Outsourcing Projects?

Outsourcing to India is multifold beneficial for foreign companies. Over the years, VFX outsourcing projects are more inclined to India.

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