As a part of other explorations I did upon alternate ways to create an image, this "gif" focused on rotoscoping.
"Rotoscoping is an animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action. Originally, animators projected photographed live-action movie images onto a glass panel and traced over the image. This projection equipment is referred to as a rotoscope, developed by Polish-American animator Max Fleischer. This device was eventually replaced by computers, but the process is still called rotoscoping."
The challenge was to create a video that would be approximately 2 seconds in length, not use any more that 24 frames and the action in the video must somehow fit in a "loop" so it starts and ends at the same point - giving it the possibility of repeating forever and an illusion of length.
The "gif" looks at the passing of time from the inside to the outside. Here, inside the time is slow and dull whereas outside it is fast and ever changing. The action of rubbing the window clean reflects on the urge to be able to see more clearly. This action being put into a "loop" that goes on forever emphasises on its repetitiveness.
The video was first shot and the frames were then extracted and printed. The manipulations were then all done by hand and the final "gif" then combined using AfterEffects.
