Yes. Its called masking.

The obvious advantage to rotoscoping is that the animation looks more realistic and the timing is accurate. The biggest disadvantage is the time it takes to do it. It has to be done by hand, one frame at a time.

The cast of An Anarchist Life - 2014 includes: Pino Cacucci as himself Ascanio Celestini as himself Simone Cristicchi as himself Daniele Tenze as Umberto Tommasini (rotoscope)

Darrell James has: Played Nesto Greebit in "Divine Intervention" in 1996. Played Rotoscope Actor in "Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World" in 1998. Played Bob Robinson-Professor of Film - Vassar College in "Love Is Plastic" in 2005. Played Bartender in "Mr. Gibb" in 2006. Played Joseph Reed in "The Revolution" in 2006. Played Joseph Reed (2006) in "The Revolution" in 2006. Played DJ Funky in "Make It Rain" in 2008. Played himself in "Uprise Presents: Word from the Street" in 2009.

They are actors shot on regular old film. A man named Bob Sabiston who developed the animation technique called rotoscope then takes the footage and uses his technique to animate the footage. Bob Sabiston is the same animator who animated the movies A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life. The Sabiston technique involves mapping outlines every few frames, and using computer interpolation to create the animation effect. Some of the latest commercials (Feb. 2009) were done by Marco Salsiccia at Mekanism using Toonit plugin for After Effects, sold by Red Giant Software and created by Stan Schwartz of Toonamation. Toonit works frame by frame, and the results are much faster and cheaper.