I scoured for dupes myself, because I was also certain this had been posted already, and I used terms such as cibelle, green, grass, tom, waits, brazilian, animation, rotoscope, etc., and still couldn't find it. If it's a dupe then I don't know what else I could have done to prevent it.

It's by Richard Linklater, who also directed Slacker, Dazed and Confused, The Newton Boys, and A Scanner Darkly (also rotoscoped), among others.

Don Lisberger and his studio are the guys who did all the animation and effects for Tron. Tron only has about 5 minutes of CGI footage, but the parts of the film taking place inside the computer are basically a rotoscoped animated movie using a photo layer for the characters. The TRON special edition DVD offers a lot of insight into the process and is one of the best times I've ever had with a DVD.

Ya, it's called "rotoscoping:" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping

It can make for some crazy results. See "A Scanner Darkly," "Waking Life," "Heavy Metal," "American Pop" etc.

Tags changed from "animation, vintage, rotoscoping, models" to "animation,vintage,rotoscoping,models,30s" by gold star member swampgirl.

Impressive.

"Many effects shown in this paper are commonly created by folks in the visual effects industry using software packages such as Shake, BouJou, and AfterEffects. While the degree of automation in these packages has grown considerably in the past decade, they still rely heavily on manual effort (e.g., matting, rotoscoping, etc.) and specialized capture equipment (e.g., blue screen filming, steady cams, use of robotic arms to capture precise video paths, etc.); all are highly unappealing solutions to the amateur user."

Though similarly unappealing is prohibitively expensive software for the "amateur user." You undoubtable have more of a pulse on the industry that I. Do you suspect that we will be seeing significant cost reductions in this industry anytime soon? Sadly, even entry level video editing software of any decent quality has yet to manifest in the open source realm.

This was a great film. Check out this video I made where I took out Brad Pitt from the scene with Ed Norton outside the bar.

http://www.archetype-productions.com/pandoras-box/media/fightclub-no-brad.mpg

or the same scene with no brad, but my friend inserted.

http://www.archetype-productions.com/pandoras-box/media/fightclub320x240-with-shadows.MPG

be kind it was my first go at rotoscoping

Really good rotoscoping job though,
Can't wait for some Elvis maniac to claim this as proof he's still ticking...
/pulling out the barf bag now...

"An animated film starring Tom Waits.

Performed for us live (at the La Brea stage in Hollywood, 1978), and rotoscoped - a process that traces back the live action frame by frame and turns it into animation.

The original live action was shot with 5 cameras - 2 high, 2 low and one hand held. The music from "The One That Got Away" blared in the background as Tom sang karaoke style different lyrics on each take. Two strippers, 6 takes and 13 hours of video footage were edited to make a 5 1/2 minute live action short which we turned into animation. A total of 5500 live action frames were hand traced, caricatured, re-drawn, hand inked and painted onto celluloid acitate cels.

Produced by Lyon Lamb, directed by John Lamb, the film bore some cool new technology, talent and was created specifically for a video music market that didn't yet exist. But the buzz was out and we went on to create what arguably may be the first music video created for the new and upcoming MTV market.

A series of unfortunate events prohibited the film from ever being released or sold commerciallly, consequently catapulting it into obscurity... until now,thanks You Tube!

In 1979, an Academy Award was presented to Lyon Lamb for the technology used in this short.

To learn more about this amazing lost film, go to ....TomWaitsLibrary.com and Wikipedia"

that is some smooth rotoscoping; whatever frame rate that is it really stands up to the test of time.

fantastic.

I love rotoscoping.

very nice work.

but i am a sucker for anything stop-motion or rotoscope.

Rotoscoping rocks.

The planes were done with rotoscoping but the people in this segment are animated freehand.

Mike Jittlov is the creator of many inventive short films and one feature length movie using many forms of special effects animation, including stop-motion animation, rotoscoping, and pixilation. The Wizard of Speed and Time feature-length film, released to theaters in 1987 and to video in 1989 and based on his 1979 short film of the same name, is his best-known work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Jittlov