Rotoscoping

Rotoscoping An animation technique that consists in tracing the frames of a shotted film, with real actors and other elements (humans, animals, or physical events) to study realistic movements and apply them to an animated subject.

Used in a very productive way in a large number of animations, including the Disney ones, or in videoclips like Take on Me" from the A-ha

Also recently used in a large number of short films and artistic video clips, tracing the frames of a 3d animation, which in this way will be able to take a softer, inaccurate but "human" tone.

Still very used, even in 3d animation, for the studing facial expressions and the labials of the characters. mentioned above to introduce Motion Capture.

The rotoscoping technique has also been used in video games to recreate the realistic illusion of the characters. One of the most illustrious examples is the first "Prince of Persia", a "platform" game of 1989, and later "Another World" , and "Flashback", from Delphine Software.