This has been a lot of fun to work on and I feel like I have learned a lot in the process regarding Photoshop painting techniques and the process of rotoscoping. I’m really pleased with how it has turned out!
The source footage came from 2007 when I went for a skate with my friend and he filmed me doing some tricks using my phone.. Then, 9 years later – I took the footage and worked with it to create this animation!
Technical details: I worked with some very low res footage (176 x 144px) and scaled it up to 1280 x 720. I kept to the original frame rate of 10fps. I used Premiere for editing, Photoshop for rotoscoping and After Effects to comp in the texture and finalise the visual look.
Music credits: “Sunday Vibes” by Ryan Little
The Making of “Skate Roto”
Watch this to see how I put the animation together. Part of the challenge was working with such low resolution footage!