The advantage is that you get realistic movements with a hand-drawn, stylized look. Rotoscoping is the art of drawing over or around a photograph, or more commonly a video sequence. Over the years, rotoscoping has grown in popularity, and now with Toon Boom Studio 5, it’s easier than ever. If you’re not a traditional sketch artist, the new stop-motion feature is perfect for you. From there, you can add unique visuals, and even audio.
Take your digital camera and photograph the minatures over time and bring them into Toon Boom to animate. Let’s say you’re more of a real world modeler and have created miniatures you’d like to bring to life. You can animate with motion paths as well as audio, and you can animate the camera in real time. You can paint art work and add it to your drawings, or even paint over your imported files. With this software, you can draw, scan, import, or capture artwork and video, then animate it in any number of ways.
The cut-out feature is like grabbing various elements and compositing them together. Toon Boom Studio 5 however offers infinite possibilities with easy-to-use stop-motion, traditional paper, or digital animation, and even cut-out and rotoscoping. Many of us have tried our hand at stop-motion with in-camera techniques or perhaps clever editing. So many artists today want to venture into the animation world but either don’t have the hand-drawing artistic capabilities or the time and resources to learn 3-D animation.