10.14.22
Mash up? Paulo, what are you talking about?
For my mash up project I decided to make a cheeky animation, inspired by some independent creators I’m a fan of. One such inspiration is the animation method I chose to try out, called rotoscoping. The process of rotoscoping is an animation technique that goes back to the early 20th century and involves tracing over video footage frame by frame. I’m not really an artist and I don’t have time for that, so I used a nifty little piece of software which takes one illustrated frame from your video and synthesizes the rest of the animation based on that. Add a backdrop designed masterfully in microsoft paint and you’ve got yourself- well maybe it’s an animated wallpaper or something.
This was a fun experiment and I definitely plan on using this process in the future, but it’s not perfect. The more information you feed the rotoscope software, the better a job it will do. If I were to redo this assignment, taking even more time to detail the animated keyframe or compositing several, would likely yield a cleaner result.