A woman Pilot! In a space ship?!?

We found this on boingboing this morning. It was sent in to them by the legendary artist Coop, and it appears to be an animation test using rotoscoping made in 1969.

Rotoscoping is an animation technique where you film live actors then draw over top of them frame by frame. Rotoscoping might seem like cheating, because you are basically tracing, but it is considered a respected style. The process is just a tedious as traditional cell animation using no references. Many early Disney films used a combination of rotoscoping for it's human characters as well as it's now famous cartoony style for the non-human characters. Disney's Snow White is an excellent example of the style in practice.