Rotoscope...

Okidoke kids, lets learn something tonight.

Tonight's topic is rotoscoping.

Ok, so rotoscoping is a type of animation technique where animators trace over live action film movement frame by frame. It is a painstaking technique which takes around 350 man hours for each one minute of film.

This technique was first invented in 1915 by Max Fleischer. Disney adapted this technique and used it in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella, although he did not use it to create the whole film. This technique also employed for the Beatles ever famous "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

Now, the whole reason we learnt this today is because I watched the film "A Scanner Darkly", which is an adaptation of Phillip K. Dick's sci-fi novel. It's an interesting concept. A highly entertaining series of events in these peoples sad drug addled lives.