A video has shown how the cartoon makers of Walt Disney animators used to reuse movements from a lot of their old scenes. The technique is called rotoscoping and was used to help cut costs when cartoons relied on hand drawn work.
The style of animation was first used to help animators capture scenes with movement, like Sleeping Beauty dancing or Alice in Wonderland talking to a doorknob. Animators would trace or draw their scenes from live-action footage of similar movements. But the technique was also used to help stay within budgetary constraints on later features: Cartoonists would refer to an earlier movie’s characters to create new ones, often with nearly identical results.
The video contains clips from “Sleeping Beauty,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “Robin Hood” and “The Aristocats.”
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