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Rotoscope animation

Rotoscope animation traces live-action footage frame by frame into drawn outlines.

Rotoscope animation: realistic motion traced into wobbling drawn outlines24
Look Hand-traced over live actionBest for Music videos, dream sequencesFamily Hand-drawn

Made with Seedance 2.5 · tested Oct 2026 · 8 s · 480p · 16:9 · text-to-video

The prompt

Rotoscope animation: the whole frame is hand-drawn, traced frame by frame over filmed movement, with bold, slightly wobbling ink outlines and flat fills of colour in a limited palette that shifts a little between frames, so the motion is completely realistic but every person and object is a drawing. On a rooftop garden above a city in late-afternoon sun, a girl of about ten with short brown hair in a yellow T-shirt waters potted tomato plants with a small tin watering can. Medium-wide shot at her eye level, three-quarter view, the camera holding still. 0–2s: she tips the watering can over a potted plant and water splashes onto the leaves. 2–4s: a white paper airplane glides in from screen left and lands on the rim of the pot beside her. 4–6s: she sets the can down, picks up the paper airplane and turns it over in her hands. 6–8s: she looks up and out over the city rooftops and smiles as the wind ruffles the leaves and her hair. Throughout: the whole frame stays hand-traced outlines and flat colour fills that wobble slightly from frame to frame, with realistic motion, one continuous take.

Reusable style block

Rotoscope animation: the whole frame is hand-drawn, traced frame by frame over filmed movement, with bold, slightly wobbling ink outlines and flat fills of colour in a limited palette that shifts a little between frames, so the motion is completely realistic but every person and object is a drawing.

Paste this at the start of any scene to restyle it. Restate the props in the same material, and repeat the style in your Throughout line.

Tip

This came out as clean 2D animation with realistic motion; the wobbling traced line barely shows. Ask for visibly boiling outlines and shifting colour fills if you want the traced look to read.

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