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CheddarGeorge t1_j9w47qq wrote

Reply to comment by Pure_Pack_8208 in Dancing book, me, ink, 2023 by Pure_Pack_8208

Forgive my ignorance but what's the difference? I thought rotoscoping is just tracing multiple frames?

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Pure_Pack_8208 OP t1_j9w6etm wrote

I didn’t use the tracing method, at first this project, not this animation but the more rough, was to rework my anatomy, and since I was working on dancing I tried to animate it, just using dragon without thinking much of it, and it worked, so I pushed the thing you can find the second try on my Reddit page

When I say “traditional” is that I didn’t use a software to trace each frame, I had my paper my 5 years knowledge in nude classes, my video reference and the notion of animation I learn during my first two college years. What I mean by traditional is that it is not the modern method used in graphics design, it’s more like the way the Disney animator used rotoscoping for Snow White.

I am no animator, I am in my last year of fine art, and try to find ways to rethink an image, so animation was obviously a way to go about it, this one have just more preparation than the other and the experience gotten because of the other try

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CheddarGeorge t1_j9wac2h wrote

The art looks great, it's definitely still tracing, and that doesn't diminish the artwork itself, there's a lot of skill in choosing what parts to trace and shading and developing your own style from the original medium.

Tracing doesn't have digital connotations and it isn't a cop out. You can trace and show skill and talent as you clearly did.

Edit: we spoke in PM and OP didn't trace this they just drew it using reference frames, just some confusion over what rotoscoping is as what they did is more impressive than that.

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Pure_Pack_8208 OP t1_j9wcfob wrote

Just sent you the proof in mp that I can draw, this isn’t tracing, in that case all people drawing from life are tracing

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CheddarGeorge t1_j9xfwdp wrote

I didn't downvote you at all, how did you read negative energy from my comment? Snow White was traced so when you say you used the same method it suggests you did too.

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