Rotoscope
Rotoscopio
- Date
- 1915 · confidence high
- Place
- New York City, New York, United States
- Credited to
- Max Fleischer
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Fleischer devised a device that projected live-action film, frame by frame, onto a glass panel to be traced by hand, enabling far more realistic animated movement than free-hand drawing.
What it led to
- The "Out of the Inkwell" series (1918-1927)
- Adoption by other studios after the patent expired in 1934, including Disney's "Snow White"
- Digital rotoscoping in modern visual effects