Rotoscope Animation Commercial

About Me

“Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up”
-Pablo Picasso

I was drawing shortly after I could walk. I was creating worlds and characters in my mind and on paper before I could write my own name. I’ve spent the majority of my life painting, drawing, filming, photographing, writing and creating to make sense of this wonderful world.

Now I make short films mostly.

Rotoscope Animation Commercial

September 29, 2008 In Uncategorized

Rotoscope Hand drawn animation

After 580 jpg’s, 5 steps in photoshop filters that had to batch automate over 600 images, 53 hours to hand draw 580 portraits and backgrounds, and 1 soundtrack with music, to accompany approximately 12 frames a second at 60 seconds long, I’ve finally finished my first official commercial animation.

This has proven to be one of the most difficult projects I’ve done so far. It’s also been one of the most rewarding.

This was a lot of hours, carpal tunnel and tendinitis inducing work, but I really believe it was all worth it.

Here it is, in it’s entirety. Don’t press play until it’s fully loaded. Grab some popcorn and turn up your speakers, yo!

Rotoscope Animation Link

(side note: for those of you who know him – yes, that is Derek Kramer. The voice over was done by an actor somewhere else in the universe.)

Marci

September 30, 2008 at 6:45 am

COOL! there is no way people would believe that is Kramer! He doesn’t care about other people’s intrests!!

Dbag

September 30, 2008 at 8:28 am

Very nice Frido – has Kramer undergone hormone therapy or something? His voice doesn’t quite sound like I remember it…

admin

September 30, 2008 at 10:33 am

The voice over was given to me. I had Kramer lip synch to it. It’s been mentioned that it sounds almost TOO deep, as if it’s been augmented in some way, however, I’m not aware of any changes made to the voice over recording. I think the actor just sounds like Lurch from the Adams Family.

Richie

October 9, 2008 at 3:12 am

Really nice work – very scanner darkley 😀

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October 13, 2008 at 9:55 pm

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