Rotoscope
A rotoscoping animation made for the Advanced Motion class — frame-by-frame tracing of live action with a stylized graphic treatment on top.
Brief
Advanced Motion at KMUTT ran a unit on rotoscoping — tracing animation directly over live action, frame by frame. The exercise teaches patience but also forces you to develop a personal hand: the tracings always reveal who drew them.
What I made
A short rotoscoped sequence with a deliberately graphic treatment — flat blocks of color over inked outlines, no rendering of subtle gradients. The point was to find a stylization that felt mine, not to chase photo-realism.
Lessons
Rotoscoping is unforgiving. There’s no faking it; either every frame is consistent or the eye catches the seam. By the end of the unit my drawing was tighter than it had been at the start of the year.