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

Wednesday March 12, 2008
photo courtesy of norriuke on sxc.huRecently, 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?

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March 17, 2008 at 11:38 am
(1) dino agate says:

In my opinion, comparing a sequence obtained from rotoscope (or motion capture) to a sequence conceived by an artist is like comparing man to a robot: man has got life, robots don’t. Just watch the difference between Disney’s Pinocchio character and the Blue Fairy in the same film.

March 17, 2008 at 11:44 am
(2) dino agate says:

I meant rotoscoping is related to robots, man to traditional animation, of course..

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