Animating a thumb

 
I cut out the thumb from one of the many photographs I took of the hand using the phone. I can then use this to help navigate the thumb myself around the screen helping the narrative to flow.

I just love how effective the simple of line drawing of the thumb looks. Especially in contrast to the image of it opposite.

On the left is the photograph cut out of the thumb and on the right is the rotoscoped version. The drawn thumb can then be used for once Rosie has become animated and is still using the technology.The process of how I managed to draw this image of the thumb is documented in the screen shots below.

The first screenshot shows how I drew around the edge of the thumb in order to get the shape and outline completed. This was a painstakingly slow process which required me to zoom right in to be as precise as possible. I needed to use a computer mouse in order to make the lines as neat as possible.

Once I had finished the outline of the thumb I created a new layer and coloured in the whole area within the outline of the thumb white. This then can be seen in a close up in the next screenshot and the third screen shot shows it from the real perspective.