Taylor Swift’s energetic, fan-centric “Shake It Off” video was already hella cool, being viewed over 809 million times so far!. But a class of animation students just reimagined the vid in an incredibly cool way. In what I would call a dream assignment, 49 “Animation 1” students at the University of Newcastle were each given 52 frames, about 3 seconds each, of Swift’s video to rotoscope, an animation technique where you trace over footage to draw and animate. In total, they produced 2,767 frames of hand-drawn rotoscoped footage to recreate the entire video, which apparently took about a month to complete. And their hard work and patience paid off, because the result is pretty much incredible.
