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ROTOSCOPING 101

By Go Guy:

More often than not, people criticize something they cannot understand or get a strong-hold of. Take for example, the issue of Rotoscoping or cheating animation, as some people call it. It was a tool intended to ease and to enhance the animator’s job, however some misconstrue it as a cheating tool for weak artists. Rotoscoping is one of the earliest motion capture technique whereby artists trace over a live footage of an action film frame by frame; to be later used for animation.

A Scene from: Who framed Roger Rabbit?

This technique was originally developed by Max Fleischer, who later got a U.S patent for his invention in 1917. The process begins by first recording live actors and then projecting the recorded images on a glass. Thereafter, artists redraw all the projected images on a tracing paper frame by frame to produce the final cartoon.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom' Super Bowl Trailer Released Online

By Joseph Schmidt:

 Ahead of the Super Bowl's kickoff, Paramount Pictures got the trailer party started with a double whammy that included a brand new look at their latest dinosaur-centric epic, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
The sequel to the first Jurassic World, and the fifth film in the Jurassic Park franchise, showed more dino-chomping action that's sure to get today's youth buying up all of the dinosaur toys.

The latest film in the franchise sees Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) seemingly having a sort of crisis of consciousness after the events of the first film. With a volcano erupting on Isla Nublar, all of the dinosaurs native to the island are subject to reliving the extinction event that killed their ancestors off billions of years ago. She wants to save them, but she needs Owen's help.
Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) doesn't seem to be doing so well himself, having been separated from the raptors that he raised since they were born. Though some perished after the events of Jurassic World, Claire appeals to him by requesting his help to save Blue.

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Why We’re Seeing Less 2D Animated Movies and Why They Probably Won’t Make a Comeback

 SOURCE: BLOOP ANIMATION.

We’re seeing less and less 2D animated films, and many people have asked me if I think it will make a comeback, or any kind of resurgence.

The simple answer is, probably not.

The reason 2D in the film industry has been in decline is that people have just gotten used to such high quality complex rendering from the films they watch, it’s hard to go back. It’s a hard task convincing people to spend money to go see a movie that is not the last word in CGI technology.

Technology never goes back, and while you can make a point that 3D isn’t better than 2D, it’s still capable of showing more detailed, complex or realistic visuals than 2D can. And that’s what people want. They vote with their wallets. 3D animated films make a TON of money, almost regardless of quality, while great non-3D films like Kubo and the Two Strings or Treasure Planet flop in the box office.

And that’s what it’s really all about. Box office numbers. It’s not that the film industry decided that 3D is a better animation method, it just sells more tickets and make a great return on their investments.

So that sounds like a downer. Is is the end for 2D? Not at all.

You might ask yourself:

Should I even bother learning 2D animation?

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