Rotoscoping Movies

A film in the “Out of the Inkwell” series, an early animated short from Max Fleischer.

One of the "Out of the Inkwell" series of silent short films featuring a combination of live action and hand-drawn animation.

The Inkwell Clown goes for a balloon ride. Later, Max's studio is filled with so many balloons that it floats away.

Phoebe (31F) is a completely normal person who just has a lot on her brain. (Which is a completely normal size.)

Meet 5000 space aliens in 5000 seconds in this bonkers animated film.

Sometimes They Knock follows Alex, a young man navigating the fractured landscape of a mental health diagnosis. As he moves through distorted...

Max Fleischer draws Koko and a haunted house, while his colleague and the janitor mess around with a Ouija board. When Max goes over to take a look,...

What happens when thoughts won't stop? Telling yourself "try not to think." The exhaustion of thinking and thinking, an attempt to recapitulate...

An animated short about recycling.

In a fractured near-future metropolis, an ordinary young man is pushed to his breaking point after a devastating industrial tragedy. As corporate...

In this one, Max has run low on ink, so Ko-Ko finishes drawing himself and then heads over to the camera room, where he creates his own characters, a...

A road-movie structure divided into five chapters – covering sake’s fundamentals, its history, its relationship with Japanese culture,...

In an alternate Manhattan, two researchers-Robert Lang and Jeff Hawthorne-are drawn into Project STARLING, a covert operation buried deep within the...

Paul and his animal friends welcome a woman into their home.

In a far future lies a strange city called The Axion. Within this city, a descendant of humanity known as The Prototype escapes from experimentation....

Synchronize is a tribute to the powerful effect movies can have on our imagination. This short film takes the viewer through the dream of a video...

This animated short film portrays a man's commute into the city. Director Michael Patterson employs a combination of pencils and rotoscoping, similar...