Overview
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Turn your video footage into a work of art. Learn the basics of rotoscoping to build creative effects and to isolate video elements for compositing or VFX.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- What is rotoscoping?
- What you should know
- Short history of rotoscoping
- Using filters on video
- Export video from Photoshop
- Popular looks
- Using Snap Art
- Applying Photoshop actions to video
- Using Auto Trace
- The cartoon effect
- Continuum art looks
- Sapphire Stylize
- Creation art effects
- Transfusion: Style transfer suite
- Introduction to Characterizer
- Capturing your face
- Picking styles and generating the puppet
- Animating and exporting the puppet
- How to make rotoscoping easier
- Keying effects
- Rotobezier and holdout matte
- Improving the matte with effects
- Preparation for roto
- Dividing to multiple masks
- Tracking a mask
- Using the Rotobrush tool
- Refining soft edge
- Roto Brush 2.0
- Rotoscoping with Mocha AE
- Adjusting the shape
- Using Mocha Pro
- Introducing Silhouette
- Challenge overview
- Creating "A Scanner Darkly" look
- Next steps
