This is my first attempt at rotoscoping. Last weekend I made a short video of the family cat. I've since imported that video into TVPaint and traced over the cat for 150 frames. The original video is in there too, so you can see what I was tracing.
Now I can draw any background behind the cat. The drawing style matches while retaining the realistic kitty motion.
A lot of cool things have been done with rotoscoping. Ralph Bakshi rotoscoped actors into Middle-Earth in the original Lord of the Rings. The 2016 documentary Tower placed actors into an illustrated version of the 1960s.
