Some kind of filter program that you can use to make an animated shot for shot remake of your favourite film
-- simonj, Mar 03 2009

A Scanner Darkly http://en.wikipedia...anner_Darkly_(film)
to look like this? [xaviergisz, Mar 03 2009]

Rotoshop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoshop
baked [Spacecoyote, Mar 03 2009]

Automated Rotoscoping http://www.youtube....EgI&feature=related
Seems like it's been done... [Jinbish, Mar 03 2009]

"Some kind of filter program"? C'mon. How does it work?
-- jutta, Mar 03 2009


much like Photoshop, but able to do lots of frames rather than a single image
-- simonj, Mar 03 2009


[Spacecoyote] got there a split second before me. The term for tracing a filmed frame sequence is called 'rotoscoping'. To do it automagically you need to use edge-detection and stuff on each frame etc.
-- Jinbish, Mar 03 2009


Real rotoscoping can't be done completely automatically--computers aren't very good at seeing the lines of things the way we do. But computers are good at interpolating aka tweening and that helps.
-- Spacecoyote, Mar 03 2009


not quite spacecoyote... "Despite some appearances to the contrary, this software does not use filters, image-processing or any kind of motion capture technology. Rather, it is an advanced program for hand-tracing over frames of video"
-- simonj, Mar 03 2009


That's what I alluded to in the last anno...it basically just does tweening.
-- Spacecoyote, Mar 03 2009



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