Ok, lets not get confused with the term rotoscoping again. Rotoscoping is the process where an animator goes frame by frame over a video and traced certain aspects or draws something in the video. Now that I know this due to my misconceptions earlier in the project, I can actually do it. I wanted to create a nice rotoscoping effect at the end of the project to make the audience understand that the character was blind. If the viewer watches the opening and just sees the character in a hospital bed, they wouldn't really understand what the injury was. But, if I could do some rotoscoping on the eyes of the character to show a scribble effect, then the viewer could infer that the character is now blind or mentally ill. This is what I am going for. But before I can actually do this, I need to research how to do it. I haven't really used Adobe After Effects, so I need to watch some tutorials and do some research on how to do this before I can continue.
My inspiration for this scene was something that you may not really expect. I enjoy listening to lots of music and sometimes I watch the music videos. When I stumbled upon Bruno Mars' "That's What I Like." I watched the music video and noticed an animation technique that I thought was really cool. I had to have listened to the song at least 10 times. Then, I thought, "Hey, I'm in an AICE Media class. I can try that technique out in a project." This led me to where I am right now. I just thought that the animation made Bruno Mars so much cooler.
After watching this video I wanted to understand how this animation was created so I went to YouTube and searched up how the song's animation was created. I found a video that shows the same process used in the creation of Bruno Mars' song, so I watched it and tried to understand and memorize the steps to create the animations.
I'm going to have to install After Effects onto my computer and then upload the clip of the hospital close up into the After Effects software. Then, I can create some drawings on each frame of the video. This may take a while because every single frame needs to be animated. However, I am only doing a simple animation and there aren't too many frames to edit. This doesn't look to hard, but I have only ever used After Effects a single time. I just remembered this. I was trying to edit out my hand frame by frame, and after around 3 hours of suffering, the file corrupted itself. I just deleted After Effects because it was so frustrating. In hindsight, this was a laughable moment. Anyways, I continued to do research on rotoscoping.
I looked at more tutorials on YouTube to make sure the information on this video was correct based off of other sources. I found a video using the same technique as the video I previously showed, but it was about animating a clip of Mbappe, a famous soccer player. It looks like the animation took a really long time.
Although the process used in this video was animating the entire shot, the same animation technique can be used for just a scribble effect, and it won't take as long as the person in this video took because he must have taken so long. He sped up many different clips of himself editing every single frame with all of the colors. I only need one color, so the process will be much faster.
I also watched another video from the same creator animating a different clip of another soccer player using this rotoscoping animation technique.
Now that I know how to do this, I can apply this to my video to the last shot of my film opening. I can add the scribble effect to when I open my eyes. As soon as I open my eyes, I can put the scribble effect to make my eyes have something wrong with them. I probably could've just used some first-aid gauze to go around my eyes, but I wanted to implement some new editing because of my inspiration from Bruno Mars. I also feel like it could be cooler and more unique as in the rest of the film, there could be an animated friend that helps the character move around, but this would end up just being his own thoughts. Well, until next time. See ya!
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