How I Animated This Video

Comedian and filmmaker Joel Haver explains, in his own deadpan style, how he makes his animated shorts. He rotoscopes live footage and uses EbSynth to carry hand-drawn keyframes across the frames.

HN cites it as the clearest look at a real rotoscoping workflow, often to argue that his painstaking process is not the same thing as AI image generation.

“He has a hilarious video on how he animates the cartoon videos”