Looking to experiment with Rotoscope animation

[Maligerent]

Hi, I'm trying to find a program that will help me experiment with rotoscoping animation. Toon Boom et al are WAY too overpriced for me, and when I noticed OpenToonz I snatched it up, but reading through everything, it still seems like there's STILL no support for video importing (registering each frame as a sequential PNG? Seriously?) and the only information I've found on rotoscoping in OpenToonz is way out of date. Am I missing something? Have the issues associated with importing video been fixed, plan on being addressed, or should I just give up? 

Because at this point, there really is no other free/decently priced animation software that has what I'm looking for, and I'm really getting discouraged. I really can't afford buying a program outright or even a subscription. So at this point it really is "pray that OpenToonz will fix their video importing" or "give in to insane price gouging".

[Rodney]

Where it comes to rotoscoping there are many approaches.

Firstly, you may want to describe your difficulty with video import as you should be able to do that.

I can actually import video more easily than image sequences.

An option that many don't consider is that of using a program/utility to make a program see-through.

With such a program we can draw in OpenToonz directly over the top of programs running underneath... even video.

There are programs that have native ability to go transparent such as 'Made with Mischief', although that isn't an animation program.

But all of this is outside of scope.

I think we just need to resolve the issues you are having because rotoscoping is accomplished all the time in OpenToonz.

Have you actually tried to rotoscope in OpenToonz or is what you are referring to just what you've gleaned from the documentation?

[Gabriel de la Cruz]

I will give you an idealistic answer: don't rotoscope, don't use motion capture, just use reference material for understanding the motion and just animate (define the poses that describe the story, the ones that describe the motion, and break them down, after that inbetween). The beauty of the result is so much nicer.

Now do what you consider the best, this is just an idea, it is fine to rotoscope :D