rotoscoping

The Fleischers invented the rotoscoping process, still in use today, in which a strip of live-action footage can be traced and redrawn as a cartoon. The Fleischers exploited this technique in their pioneering series Out of the Inkwell (1919–29). It was this series, with its lively interaction between human…

…mechanically inclined Max invented the rotoscope, a time- and labour-saving device in which live-action film frames are traced as a guide for animated action. Brother Dave’s on-camera performance in a clown suit was rotoscoped into the character Ko-Ko the Clown, who starred in the Out of the Inkwell series (1919–29),…

…1910s and the invention of rotoscoping, in which an actor is filmed and then drawn over by animators frame by frame to replicate the motion. Films such as Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) used rotoscoping to create realistic movements for their characters. Moreover, this early motion-capture process…