The first live-action animation was created back in 1915 by Mark Fleischer who filmed traces frame by frame then with a hand drawn reel. The technique known as rotoscoping actually lives on today and is being payed homage to through the art of designers like Matthias Brown. The effect is oddly fresh and vintage-like at the same time compared to the onslaught of modern animated GIFs and memes that overpopulate sites like Tumblr.
You can take more Brown’s work for a spin below and on his relevantly named site TraceLoops:
via Colossal
