We turn real footage into animated film, one frame at a time.
An independent animation studio building a feature-length rotoscoped documentary — on a conversion pipeline we built ourselves.
What we do
Rotoscoping is the oldest trick in animation: draw over live action, frame by frame, and you get motion no keyframe animator can fake. It is also brutally slow. A feature is tens of thousands of individual drawings.
We built a pipeline that does the drawing pass — a diffusion model with a character model we trained ourselves, running frame by frame, holding one consistent look across an entire film. Every frame is reviewed by hand. The machine does the labour; the artist keeps the authorship.
How it works
A trained eye
A model trained on the artist's own paintings, so every frame carries one hand's style instead of a generic filter.
Frame by frame
No interpolation, no shortcuts. Each frame is converted individually and checked, then assembled back into the cut.
Built to scale
Resume-safe batch rendering across local and cloud GPUs, so a feature-length job survives restarts and nothing is lost.
Technical
- Conversion modelQwen-Image-Edit-2509, 8-step distilled
- Style modelCustom-trained LoRA, artist's own corpus
- OrchestrationHeadless ComfyUI, purpose-built batch tooling
- ComputeLocal RTX GPU + NVIDIA L4 cloud instances
- Scale to dateTens of thousands of frames converted
Work with us
Our own feature comes first. Beyond that, we are interested in talking with independent filmmakers who want this look and have run into the same wall we did — the work is GPU-bound and the hardware is out of reach.
Looking for our main studio?
Art and design for hotels, hospitality and small businesses lives on our main site. This page covers the rotoscoped film work only.
Visit quantumpizza.art →