rotoscope
Americannoun
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Movies, Graphic Arts. a device that traces live-action footage and transforms it into animated sequences, used mostly in the 20th century before being replaced by digital technology.
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Digital Technology. a software application that merges live-action footage with digital animation and other graphics to create composite images.
verb (used with object)
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Movies, Graphic Arts. to trace (live-action footage) and transform it into animated sequences.
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Digital Technology. to merge (elements of live action and digital graphics) by utilizing a software application that creates composite images.
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of rotoscope
First recorded in 1935–40; roto ( def. ) + -scope ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Maitland used rotoscope animation in “The Eyes of Me” about blind teens, and in “Tower.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2018
The actors were then transferred by rotoscope, an animation technique, from that footage and inserted into computer-generated cockpits for “Rogue One.”
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2016
No one who sees this wobbly but amusing hybrid of live action and rotoscope animation — an appreciably out-there debut feature from Brazilian director Pedro Morelli — will accuse it of being business as usual.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2016
No one who sees this wobbly but amusing hybrid of live-action and rotoscope animation — an appreciably out-there debut feature from the Brazilian director Pedro Morelli — will accuse it of being business as usual.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2016
The movements are supremely naturalistic: almost like watching an enhanced version of the rotoscope technique favoured by Richard Linklater in A Scanner Darkly.
From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2011
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