• Adobe After Effects

  Rotoscoping Programs?

  Posted by Bill John on January 9, 2013 at 12:18 am

  Hi,

  After After Effects, what is the next best person rotoscoping program? I need one that works well with moving people.

  Conrad Olson replied 13 years, 4 months ago 9 Members · 18 Replies
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  Herbie Humperdink

  January 9, 2013 at 1:44 am

  Mocha. Part of After Effects. I dare anyone to say I am wrong. 🙂
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  Bill John

  January 9, 2013 at 3:02 am

  Ok, look, stupid question here:

  Where in the world can I find the main website about Mocha? or where can I download it? is it even free? or is it some supper expensive program?

  (I’ve only heard about Mocha and never needed to look into it until now and Google isn’t helping me at the moment.)
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  Herbie Humperdink

  January 9, 2013 at 3:07 am

  Mocha is a program developed by Imagineer Systems. It is bundled with adobe after effects since version CS4 (if my memory does not fail) It uses planar tracking technology instead of the standard point trackers.

  It greatly simplifies roto work.

  Take a look at this link:
  https://tv.adobe.com/show/mocha-ae-planar-tracking-roto/

  Peace and Love.
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  Tero Ahlfors

  January 9, 2013 at 4:40 am

  Silhouette is neat: https://www.silhouettefx.com/
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  Tom Daigon

  January 9, 2013 at 5:46 am

  Another vote for Mocha here. Its powerful, well designed and FREE with CS6.

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  Bill John

  January 9, 2013 at 6:02 am

  I’ve looked at Silhouette, but it looks like it works best with shapes, not people. Is this so?
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  Walter Soyka

  January 9, 2013 at 6:19 am

  [David Shapiro] “I’ve looked at Silhouette, but it looks like it works best with shapes, not people. Is this so?”

  In roto, people ARE shapes — usually multiple shapes. You almost never want to animate a single mask over a person’s outline. Instead, best practice is to watch the way they move and animate a set of overlapping masks. For example, you may have separate shapes for a person’s hand, forearm, upper arm, torso, head, etc.

  fxguide’s The Art of Roto [link] provides a nice overview on the history of roto, basic roto technique, and software for roto.

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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  January 9, 2013 at 10:24 am

  I would go for Mocha as well.

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist
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  Vishesh Arora

  January 9, 2013 at 2:29 pm

  I would also go for Mocha. Why to buy any other software if we are getting such a powerful tool for free with AE.

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  Herbie Humperdink

  January 9, 2013 at 3:27 pm

  At almost 1k. Why would you ever want to pay for Silhouette FX. Mocha is rock solid and it is part of AE.

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