For Wednesday's class, have video clip you've chosen to use for the rotoscoping assignment. This could be video you've shot yourself (and it could be cell phone quality -- since we're just importing it to trace), or video you're going to rip from youtube or a DVD. Remember that the rotoscoping project will incorporate some sort of creative transformation -- for instance, transposing the traced figures into some space that's different from the environment of the original video. The Kid Cudi video I showed in class is full of those sorts of transformations.
Your source video should not have a lot of editing -- if there are 5 or more shots in your clip, that's probably too choppy for this assignment. A single shot, where all the action is clearly framed, would probably be ideal. Also, you probably want some physical action in the clip -- drawing frame after frame of someone running or jumping or dancing will be far more interesting than drawing frame after frame of someone talking, or just standing around.
Don't copy these ideas, but some concrete approaches could be:
You have video of someone swimming -- and in the animation, you'll place them swimming in an aquarium. Or you have a video of someone skipping rope -- and in the animation, you place them skipping rope on the wing of a flying airplane. You will be tracing footage, but I want your animation to move beyond mere tracing -- in animation, it's easy to make impossible things happen, so there should be some element of the impossible to your finished piece.
Your rotoscoped animation has to be at least 10 seconds long. If you don't know how to capture video from youtube or other sources, we'll go over that in Wednesday's class.
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