Ira and Zeus

I discovered rotoscoping last year thanks to one of my favorite YouTube artists, HulloAlice. These cheetahs at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, affectionately known as Ira and Zeus (real names unknown), were my first test subjects.

This animation took a few hours over the course of a few weeks, and was created using RoughAnimator on my recently acquired tablet. I learned a lot through the process, and have been blown away by RoughAnimator.

The original footage was filmed in November 2018 on a freezing, rainy, windy day. I went with my friend Kate and her newborn. It was so cold and wet, we basically had the entire zoo to ourselves. While Arya probably won’t remember, it was a solid first zoo visit, and she accepted the weather like a pro.