![]() Seems like a lot of work, but the results were fabulous! To create these a matte was manually added to each frame of the stick held by each of the actors, then a line with a colored glow was added. More famously, rotoscoping has been used in all of the “Star Wars” movies to create their iconic lightsabers. To give an idea of the amount of work that goes into a roto-heavy production, the “Take on Me” video involved rotoscoping 3,000 frames of live action video, and it took more than 16 weeks. The boiling in A-Ha’s video was intentional, but careless rotoscoping can lead to this happening without intent. Famous examples are The Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” video and A-Ha’s “Take on Me.” Screen grab of A-Ha’s music video Take On MeThe shaky lines in “Take on Me” are the result of what is called “boil” or “jitter,” which is caused when an image isn’t traced consistently from frame to frame. Over the years rotoscoping has been in constant use, not only on television and in movies, but also in music videos.
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