Rotoscoping: Draw an Animation Frame by Frame

You will begin by getting to know the work and the artistic influences of Gonzalo Cordero and you will make a journey through the history of rotoscoping, its function and its traditional use.

Below you will see the possibilities that it has today on different media such as documentaries, music videos, headers, credit titles, advertising, etc.

Afterwards, you will discover how to choose the video clip on which you will work, its characteristics, how to enhance the drawing effect, how to select and edit to get the best material and prepare it in a comfortable and orderly manner.

At this point, Gonzalo will teach you the basic technique of rotoscopy with Photoshop. You will see how to use the video strip in Photoshop working image by image with brushes and color tests. You will learn to select what is important and eliminate the superfluous to enhance movement through drawing.

Once you know the basic procedure, you will complicate it by means of Art Rage, a very intuitive drawing program with which you will experiment with materials, colors, textures, degrees of definition. etc.

Later in After Effects, you will learn to easily edit all the material, dump it, hang it and promote it.