Animate This! / Community / NOTLD:R / Subterranea February 9, 2010

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.

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    • 2 Comments…

    1. 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. 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