Recently, a forum reader brought up the topic of rotoscoping and motion capture, asking if these techniques constitute actual animation since one is retraced from live video, and the other doesn't actually animate; it just applies captures of real motion to virtual objects. While by the strictest definition of the word "animation", anything that moves is animated...

Do you consider rotoscoping and motion capture animation to be actual animation?

• Yes. It doesn't matter how the moving images got on the screen; they're still animated.
• No. Actual animation requires the animator to animate, rather than use real life captures of any kind.
• I consider rotoscoping to be animation, but not motion capture.
• I consider motion capture to be animation, but not rotoscoping.
• Other/will explain in comments.

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