Well, no. It doesn't work with moving pictures. This optical effect only works with still images. This is because only still images are "burned" inside your retina. That's why you able to see only a blurry image when you blink. You see the traces of every still image that completes the whole animation.
I'm sorry if you feel like you loose your time with this. But, now I present you the whole documentation of the project!!!
project documentation
This whole idea came from the motivation of doing something with an old 8mm footage that I have. But I didn't felt like doing a regular found footage film proyect, not yet. So I try to make an excuse to use it, recycle it and play with it. This footage it's property of my good friend Josefina Undurraga and her family.
I captured only 4 seconds of that footage. I needed a simple, but at the same time a fluid action.
Click on the image to see the original footage.
Then I exported the footage as an still image sequence (a series of jpg images). I exported by 15 frames per seconds (remember that in video we have 30 frames per second). So in total I had 74 diferent images to work with. I use the first 38 to work.
Then, frame by frame I painted the images to give them the cartoon look. It was a complete rotoscope animation. For doing this I painted the images in the Adobe Photoshop with a Wacom pen tablet.
After painting all the frames, I exported all the painted images to the Final Cut Pro to make the secuence of digital rotoscope animation.
Click on the image to watch the animation.
And when I finished editing the secuence, I reverse the colors to get the negative image
Click on the image to see the animation.
After that, I asked to my roomate Rohan to fake the experiment, because I knew that it wouldn't work. So I video tape him, watching this images and acting the same as if the experiment worked... But it didn't.
