Adobe Education Leaders

Hey multimedia teachers, need a highly engaging assignment for your budding animation and video editing students? Enroll your class in the “Rotoball” collaborative rotoscoping animation project (now that’s a mouth full).

The 2009 “Rotoball” project is open to any student or class, elementary through college. There are a few rules to follow, but the project sounds like a whole-heap of fun and would give you an excuse (like you need one) to get busy with your favorite Adobe programs - think Flash, Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects.

The idea is to create a short story involving a ball. Your 15 second video is combined with other people’s stories to create a collaborative multimedia extravaganza!

The Rules

1. Each animation must be exactly 15 seconds long.


2. The animation must contain the following:




1. A character catching the ball from the left side of the screen


2. The ball transforming in some way


3. A character interacting with the transformed object


4. The object turning back into a ball


5. The ball exiting the right hand side of the screen

Visit the Rotoball website for additional information, rules, resources, lesson guideline, and tutorials.

Watch the original Rotoball (2005) collaborative video -