Dancing Delineation

Rotoscoping is tracing over live-action footage to make it an animation. I first discovered my love for this in my first animation class ever. While for most, this process is tedious and time consuming, I found joy and satisfaction in it. While all animation is tedious, rotoscoping is even more so because you have to trace every single frame, there are no shortcuts.

For this project, I wanted to capture not only my love of 2D animation, but also my love for the art of dance. I danced for almost 17 years, so to say it was a big part of my life for a long time is an understatement. Animating a dancer made this process even more fun, as I really enjoyed capturing her movement in different lines and color. Animating a dancer, however, is also quite hard because the movements are rather sharp and fast and can be hard to make out in some frames. Overall, this was an amazing experience and really helped to grow my knowledge in animation and rotoscoping.