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rotoscope

Pronunciation: /ˈrəʊtə(ʊ)skəʊp/
Definition of rotoscope

noun

  • a device which projects and enlarges individual frames of filmed live action to permit them to be used to create cartoon animation and composite film sequences.
  • a computer application which combines live action and other images in a film.

verb

[with object]
  • transfer (an image from live action film) into another film sequence using a rotoscope: the gulls were filmed from a cliff top and rotoscoped into the shot

Origin:

1950s: origin obscure; perhaps the same word as 19th-century rotascope, denoting a kind of gyroscope

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