Em's Rotoscoping

I love a-ha's 'Take On Me" film clip, using an awesome hand drawn style mixed with real action footage rotoscoping. (It won 6 awards at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards.) It inspired me to make a film clip in the same style for a uni assignment. I used my step brother's song, "Staring AT You". I cut it down so it would only be about 45secs, so I didn't have as much work to do. I filmed a friend in his house acting out getting ready in the morning, etc. Then I had to rotoscope him to give him that hand drawn, drawing come to life in real footage look. Rotoscoping is drawing over footage frame by frame. So thats exactly what I had to do. I used a graphics tablet and drew over the character in each scene. I made it 12 frames per second, which means I had to draw 12 frames per second of footage. That's about 270 frames I think, because some of them where stills. I was going to have the end pictures animated as well but ran out of time. I worked on it almost 24/7 for the last week. The day before it was due I got up early and started working on it at about 9am and continuously drawing until 9am the next day (when it was due). My hand was bloody sore, it was uncomfortable to pick up a fork. The most exciting part was that the class and the lecturer loved it. And it was shown at the Multimedia screenings, which show the best of multimedia for the year. 

It also fit in with my step brother's Album art for the song: