History Main / RotoScoping

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46PXaJxzuDE This video]] pretty clearly uses rotoscoping, although you may not notice it in the face of [[EarWorm Mormon Jeezus]].

* ''Film/AScannerDarkly'', from the same director and producer as ''Waking Life'', used this to good effect.

* Kuuchuu Buranko shifts to rotoscoping from time to time, specially during close ups on the characters' faces.
* Opening sequence of Fela Pure.

* ''WesternAnimation/WakingLife'' (digitally, using software called Rotoshop.)

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8yVjGjSMv8 This immensely disturbing PSA]], which was created for the Safety on the Move's ''Drinking and Driving Wrecks Lives'' campaign. A man's haunting, ghostly face stares ''[[BreakingTheFourthWall right into your soul]]'', and recounts how his "great bloke" Mark killed the parents of two children in a drunk driving accident on Christmas. [[NightmareFuel Good luck trying to sleep after watching this]].

* The ending sequence, "Hare Hare Yukai", from ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' has lately become somewhat memetic for being ''obviously'' painted over live-action.

* ''Film/AScannerDarkly'', from the same director and producer as ''WesternAnimation/WakingLife'', used this to good effect.

* The lightsaber effects in the original ''Film/StarWars'' trilogy. Rotoscoping is still the word you would use to describe the prequel trilogy's lightsabers, but it's the modern computer-aided version. The sequel trilogy (as shown in some behind the scenes photos of ''Film/TheForceAwakens'') used prop glowing sticks (similar in look to the Force FX lightsaber toys), with some digital enchancements to it.

* ''VideoGame/{{Flashback}}''.

* When the animators of ''DarkForces'' had difficulty animating Darth Vader, they had C. Andrew Nelson (who had suited up as Vader for commercials, print ads, etc) perform the actions that they wanted the Dark Lord to do. The animators then used rotoscoping to match the already drawn cutscenes.

* WalterLantz used this in at least two of his shorts; the WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit short "Merry Old Soul" and the oneshot cartoon "Just a Jitterbug".

* Music/DireStraits, "Money for Nothing".

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' uses this on occasion, usually for complex dance sequences (such as the Jitterbug song "Jungle Love" and Peter performing [[{{Music/Madonna}} "How I Feel"]] in "New Kidney In Town")

* Light rotoscoping was used on the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' specials ''She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown'' and ''It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown'' for the skating scenes in the former and dancing in the latter. The footage wasn't "traced" as with typical rotoscoping, but reinterpreted for the characters' exaggerated proportions. (Fun fact: Charles Schultz's daughter Jill performed reference for both specials.)

* Specifically averted in ''Disney/LiloAndStitch''. One of the special features shows the animation process of the opening hula dance scene, in which the animators watched footage of actual dancers and painstakingly animated the movements by hand; it's mentioned that they did this instead of rotoscoping it, because...um...HardWorkFallacy?%%I actually don't remember exactly what they said the reason was; if you do, can you please add it here.

* WalterLantz used this in at least two of his shorts; the OswaldTheLuckyRabbit short "Merry Old Soul" and the oneshot cartoon "Just a Jitterbug".

* Used as a transitional device in ''Film/ChargeOfTheLightBrigade'' between the animated sequences created by Creator/RichardWilliams and the live action shots. The animated sequences themselves, despite the hyper-detailed designs, used no rotoscoping.

* Light rotoscoping was used on the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' specials ''She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown'' and ''It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown'' for the skating scenes in the former and dancing in the latter. The animation wasn't "traced" as with typical rotoscoping, but reinterpreted for the characters' exaggerated proportions. (Fun fact: Charles Schultz's daughter Jill performed reference for both specials.)

* Creator/{{Filmation}} did this to get stock footage for all its animated series: ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Blackstar}}'', and ''[[WesternAnimation/FlashGordon The New Adventures of Flash Gordon]]''.

* Creator/RalphBakshi did extensive rotoscoping; ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''WesternAnimation/AmericanPop'', ''WesternAnimation/FireAndIce'', and ''Film/CoolWorld''. Bakshi went to rotoscoping because 20th Century Fox wouldn't increase his budget for ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}''.

** By extension, Music/WeirdAlYankovic's parody "Money For Nothing/[[TheBeverlyHillbillies Beverly Hillbillies]]"

Creator/{{Disney}} Studios had used rotoscoping from ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' (explaining the slightly different art style of said characters) all the way to ''Disney/HundredAndOneDalmatians''.

However, rotoscoping has a bad reputation among the animation community, including men such as Creator/RichardWilliams, [[DisneysNineOldMen Milt Kahl]], Creator/ShamusCulhane and Creator/JohnKricfalusi, being perceived as a lifeless, poor substitute for character animation. Even Creator/RalphBakshi, a frequent user of it in his feature films, admits that he loathed using it and that it was only used due to his low budgets and inexperienced younger artists. In fact, Max Fleischer himself came to realize the limitations of the very device he created early on, opting for more creative use of character animation instead (although he did make some exceptions).

* The lightsaber effects in the original ''Film/StarWars'' trilogy. Rotoscoping is still the word you would use to describe the prequel trilogy's lightsabers, but it's the modern computer-aided version.