so rotoscoped and standard animation techniques.

Well, looks like compositing. Leto's actions don't synchronize perfectly as they would in a real mirror. From my experience working in film:

Looks to me like the shot the beginning part as a composite shot, basically on green screen, or even on the real set and rotoscoped. The shot through the mirror was the actual long take. There was no mirror, of course, and after the camera approached the wall, either the matte or set was pulled away from camera to allow the camera to go through. Possible reason for the camera pause being technical rather than story driven.

If you look at his arm, the foreground Leto reaches out before the mirror Leto does. Also, given the style of lighting on foreground Leto, which doesn't match mirror Leto, to me suggest they were lighting for a green screen. That's a typical light setup for ideal keying.

I know right ?! I said that too- What other kind of Television was there ? then I thought about candle light.... and rotoscopes such'n such.

I'm working my way through Season 1 now... I'm also excited for Wolf Among Us and Tales from the Borderlands: http://videosift.com/video/Tales-from-the-Borderlands-Trailer

Do they rotoscope their animation and characters or is it some 3D animation that is just cell shaded to look rotoscoped?

The error is that there was never a "Super Oleg" character in MK, nor was their rotoscoping ever so fluid.

Nice rotoscoping! Would love to see a version of Take On Me!

>> ^ForgedReality:

Looks like Flash, not hand drawing...


"by hand" doesn't mean "on paper". You can draw by hand in Flash using a tablet. Most Flash animation is crap but, to me, it's greatest use is as a digital tool for traditional cel animation (much of this looks like basic frame-by-frame rotoscope drawing animation AKA hand-drawn cel animation traced over live footage.)

Thanks, atara.

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*quality
*awesome

>> ^ForgedReality:

Looks like Flash, not hand drawing...


Well, according to the creator... "It is frame by frame hand drawn vector art with a few animated tweaks here and there. About 400 hours worth of rotoscoping total. LOL"

I'm impressed with the time-lapse meta-art setup but the rotoscoping of T2 is rather crap.

>> ^MaxWilder:

>> ^spoco2:
It's cool, but I'm pretty darn sure it's not done just as shown in that video, those pictures SCREAM rotoscoped (even if hand rotoscoped), and there's no way he drew a picture, threw it onto the pile then drew another one with no onion skinning at all, there's no way the pages would always be in the same spot, or the lines be perfectly attuned to each other frame to frame.
So, yes, awesome animation, but a little dishonest in how it's 'actually' done.

I think the reason his hand is on a mouse is because it is advancing the film by one frame in a monitor or lightbox built into the desk or projecting down onto it. Looking at it again, I think the projector is above the desk, probably in the same box as a camera that takes a pic of the page when each is done.
For me, that does not at all diminish how impressive this video is. He not only made every one of those sketches by hand, but somebody also moved the camera all over the place, millimeter by millimeter between frames.
And the music is awesome, too. From an old video game? Anybody know what it is?


Song is "Anatoliy Shishkov" by Rymdreglage & Ninjamoped (http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ninja-chips/id429181592?i=429181610&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 ), from the youtube description.

Great video! I don't think there's necessarily a light box or rotoscoping going on. When he clicks the mouse, he's probably just advancing a frame on a monitor that is not shown in the video or triggering the camera(s) to take the pictures that make up the video. With a little practise, artists can do amazing things without a reference subject.

This guy as is very likely using reference frames and is drawing far more basic than other images we've seen created here lately.

>> ^spoco2:

It's cool, but I'm pretty darn sure it's not done just as shown in that video, those pictures SCREAM rotoscoped (even if hand rotoscoped), and there's no way he drew a picture, threw it onto the pile then drew another one with no onion skinning at all, there's no way the pages would always be in the same spot, or the lines be perfectly attuned to each other frame to frame.
So, yes, awesome animation, but a little dishonest in how it's 'actually' done.


I think the reason his hand is on a mouse is because it is advancing the film by one frame in a monitor or lightbox built into the desk or projecting down onto it. Looking at it again, I think the projector is above the desk, probably in the same box as a camera that takes a pic of the page when each is done.

For me, that does not at all diminish how impressive this video is. He not only made every one of those sketches by hand, but somebody also moved the camera all over the place, millimeter by millimeter between frames.

And the music is awesome, too. From an old video game? Anybody know what it is?

It's cool, but I'm pretty darn sure it's not done just as shown in that video, those pictures SCREAM rotoscoped (even if hand rotoscoped), and there's no way he drew a picture, threw it onto the pile then drew another one with no onion skinning at all, there's no way the pages would always be in the same spot, or the lines be perfectly attuned to each other frame to frame.

So, yes, awesome animation, but a little dishonest in how it's 'actually' done.

*animation rotoscoping action.