How I do the things I do

By On February 9, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Subterranea

We all like going behind the scenes, right?

When Mike Schneider, director of the Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated project, asked me to contribute a featurette to the upcoming DVD release, I was afraid I wouldn’t have the time to do so. Well, last week I gathered strength and put together a 6 minute tutorial on interpretive rotoscoping.

Rotoscoping is an animation process that involves a lot of tracing. For NOTLD:R, I changed my style up depending on the shot — and sometimes that meant tracing 15 pictures a second with my Wacom stylus.

In this video, you can see some of that process, albeit sped up to make it more interesting.

Interpretive Rotoscoping for NOTLD:R from Mike Boas on Vimeo.

Tagged with: animation • art • cartoon • flash • night of the living dead • NOTLD:R • public domain • reanimated • remake • rotoscoping • wacom
 

2 Responses to How I do the things I do

  1. Jeffrey B. Palmer says:
    February 9, 2010 at 11:23 am

    Mike!

    This was really cool. Always wanted to know more about rotoscoping and now I see how it works, more or less. They used this technique on a lot of animation from the 60s and 70s yeah?
    So are different artists taking on different scenes? How will it be released? Seems like a fun idea.

    Thanks for the behind the scenes info. Very cool.
    ~ Jeff

    Follow me @JPtwit

  2. Mike says:
    February 9, 2010 at 2:05 pm

    If you’ve seen Ralph Bakshi films like American Pop or Lord of the Rings, there’s a lot of rotoscoping there.

    For Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated, artists from all over the world are taking part. Check out http://notldr.com for more info.

    There will be a DVD soon. Right now, they’re screening at conventions and on Horror Host shows, grass roots style.

    The movie’s also playing this week online at
    http://www.fridaynight-frightnight.com/notldreanimated.html