The future of Digital SLR cameras in Moving Image arts looks even more optimistic with two new announcements by Canon. The first is the new 550D digital SLR camera that offers 1080p HD video at up to 30fps and 720p at 60fps. This is a significant upgrade over the 550D and is also coupled with the ability to use an external mic. The full camera spec can be found here.
Ireland’s 22nd Foyle Film Festival takes place from Friday 20-Saturday 28 November at venues throughout Derry City. The ‘Call For Entries’ to all filmmakers for the prestigious Light In Motion (LIM) Awards begins on Monday 1 June. This year the competition strand has been streamlined to four categories.
Cinemagic has launched its annual call for young film enthusiasts, aged 10 – 18, to take on the role of film consultants and help select the films for this year’s festival. The Coca-Cola Cinemagic International Film & Television Festival for Young People will take place in Belfast from 18th November- 4th December 2009.
Previously we published a six step guide to rotoscoping. The tutorial covered the back to basic manual production of rotoscope animation, akin to the type used in the famous a-ha ‘Take on me‘ video.
Rotoscoping was first invented in 1914 by Max Fleischer, who used it in his series “Out of the Inkwell” with his brother Dave Fleischer dressed in a clown outfit as the live-film reference for the character Koko the Clown.
FxGuide have published a comprehensive guide on how to rotoscope. The guide looks at a number of different software applications and covers a brief history of the technique. Rotoscoping is the process of manually altering film or video footage one frame at a time. The frames can be painted on arbitrarily to create custom
