Redrawing Taylor Swift - Shake it Off Rotoscoped

May 21, 2015 5:24 PM

Redrawing Taylor Swift - Shake it Off Rotoscoped (slyt)

Hat-tip to waxy.org

posted by mhum (21 comments total)

Like a Don Bluth movie from an an alternate dimension
posted by The Whelk at 5:41 PM on May 21, 2015

And Friday begins ... now!
[neat!]
posted by lalunamel at 5:46 PM on May 21, 2015

I have never figured out what's wrong with me or my vision, but there's something about this which gives me the same eye headache or sinus pressure feeling of visual overstimulation that SpongeBob and Jimmy Neutron and newer cartoons give me.

Anybody else ever get that feeling?
posted by discopolo at 6:04 PM on May 21, 2015

Credit where credit's due, this is the first time I've been motivated to listen to that song all of the way through.
posted by mmoncur at 6:28 PM on May 21, 2015 [9 favorites]

aaaaaaand now I have to watch Waking Life & A Scanner Darkly ASAP.
posted by Zerowensboring at 6:28 PM on May 21, 2015 [6 favorites]

Not really Bluth, more like Bakshi.
posted by JoeZydeco at 6:34 PM on May 21, 2015 [3 favorites]

As if I needed another reason to listen to this song.

(But really, I love this.)
posted by uncleozzy at 6:36 PM on May 21, 2015

Well that was completely wonderful.
posted by oulipian at 6:44 PM on May 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

Yeah, I loved this.
posted by Wataki at 7:27 PM on May 21, 2015

It was still too pretty. More weirdness needed.
posted by emjaybee at 7:35 PM on May 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

That was awesome.
posted by Songdog at 7:51 PM on May 21, 2015

Every so often it strobes for a few beats, not enough to be continuous, but more like a flash.
posted by ZeusHumms at 7:54 PM on May 21, 2015

JoeZydeco: Not really Bluth, more like Bakshi.

... but without the super-annoying differences in resolution and shading between the cartoon hobbits and everything else.
posted by IAmBroom at 8:07 PM on May 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

That was awesome. It made me have to rewatch this.
posted by mon-ma-tron at 8:17 PM on May 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

This was really great, but I didn't read the video description which makes it even more wonderful. Fortunately a friend pointed it out to me:

"49 University of Newcastle animation students were each given 52 frames of Taylor Swift's Shake it Off video, and together they produced 2767 frames of lovingly hand-drawn, rotoscoped, animation footage."
posted by LEGO Damashii at 10:07 PM on May 21, 2015 [4 favorites]

You can totally tell which animators practiced their rotoscoping, and also which animators are huge furries.
posted by ShawnStruck at 12:05 AM on May 22, 2015 [2 favorites]

The Sub-Zero/Scorpion bit was out of left field but genius nonetheless.
posted by PenDevil at 1:01 AM on May 22, 2015 [3 favorites]

This has spoiled me. Now I want all of my visual entertainments to be collaboratively rotoscoped and will accept nothing less.
posted by aparrish at 5:35 AM on May 22, 2015 [5 favorites]

this is the first time I've been motivated to listen to that song all of the way through.

Try listening to "I Knew You Were Trouble" first. The transition from "I realize the blame is on me" to "I shake it off" is this generation's "Am I so out of touch? No. It's the children who are wrong."
posted by roystgnr at 6:29 AM on May 22, 2015

That was really great. It brightened my day.

Thanks.
posted by OmieWise at 7:01 AM on May 23, 2015

I was watching it thinking "jesus there are just so many visual ideas and free associations in here" which was making me feel inadequate and exhausted. I feel much better knowing that it's because it was dozens of people.
posted by SharkParty at 10:00 PM on May 23, 2015