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Max Fleischers rotoscope patent

Walking dead comic watch online Hey guys, good to be back after a short trip! I see a lot of things have happened in the meantime, like the biggest auction sale of classic original animation art (more on that in the next post). First, lets pick up were we left it, Okay?

So, in my previous post I was talking about Max Fleischers early Superman cartoons from the 1940s and how his studio used a process called Rotoscoping to come up with correct phyical human behaviour to make sure all animations would look good. Remember, Superman and his pals were supposed to look accurately, like they were designed by Siegel and Shuster, which means their proportions matched the human body as nature intended it, instead of the many, funny and cartoony characters the animators at Fleischers studio were familiar with, who could stretch and squeeze into any form (like their Koko the clown character).

Fleischer had a great interest in mechanics and a knack for drawing machinery. He also worked as an editor for Popular Science Monthly while working as a cartoonist for the newspapers. So its not that strange that Max came up with his own invention, The rotoscope, which enabled his artists to trace footage of live action actors, who were filmed beforehand.  Though to think of it as purely tracing live action would not do justice to the talented artists, who created all these beloved classic cartoons and features, the rotoscope would often be used as a way of having reference footage that the artist would use to build his own artwork upon.