I’m practicing rotoscoping (think ‘a scanner darkly’) at the moment. I’m terrible (my drawing skills have slumped since age 9) but getting better. So far I’ve animated a hand and a tap. Luckily for me I shot some slightly more engaging footage after that or I suspect I would have gone mad.

I noticed, in the leap from a point-and-shoot camera’s video function to a handy-cam, the invention of mini DV tapes which surprised me because I quite primitively expect all image and film equipment to use an SD card (luckily our media department comes with some long-haired and technical resident types who are lifesavers). DV tapes remind me a bit of mini-disks, which were peculiar and abysmal things, neither of which stopped me nagging my Mother to buy some so I could make mixes, which were in turn also abysmal.

I like this rotoscoped video. Kids are so informative.