Rotoscoping is used in animation. Rotoscoping is where you trace over a bit of footage, frame by frame. This is then used in live-action and animated films. To trace recorded live-action images you project them onto a frosted glass panel, then a animator re-draws what they see. The projection used to display the images onto the frosted panels is called a rotoscope. However these are now replaced by computers. This technique was invented by Max Fleischer. He used it in his series 'Out of the inkwell' which starting around 1915. Dave Fleischer, his brother dressed as a clown for the live-film reference for the character Koko the clown. He used the technique in a lot of his cartoons. His most popular work is the dance routines in three Betty Boop cartoons in the early 1930's and the animation of the Gulliver in Gulliver's travels, 1939. However the Fleischer studio's most effective use of rotoscoping was in their series of Superman cartoons. Rotoscoping was also used in The Beatles movie Yellow submarine. It was directed by George Dunning, a animation producer. The Beatles characters were based on their appearances, however Paul didn't have a moustache. The animation in Yellow submarine isn't very realistic this is because it looks and has been falsely attributed to pop art.
In after effects you could use rotoscoping with the rotobrush. This is used to separate an object or figure from the background so you can move the object around or change the background, like masking. Rotoscoping would be useful for our drag up effect. We could use it to separate the person from the background and move the person up into the air in each frame.
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