• Adobe After Effects

  Rotoscoping Question

  Posted by Will Towle on February 23, 2009 at 2:24 pm

  Hi guys,

  I have this shot I’m working on at the moment in which a man walks across a scene and, into this scene, I am trying to composite a helicopter. The thing thats troubling me is I need the man to appear to be infront of the helicopter.

  Now, obviously I could draw a mask around the man and animate it frame by frame but I was wondering if there were any better/quicker options which could solve this task?

  This is a still example of one of the images in the sequence:
  https://s389.photobucket.com/albums/oo335/Towley_/?action=view&current=Example.jpg

  Thanks,

  Will

  Jeremy Allen replied 17 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Grant Swanson

  February 23, 2009 at 3:26 pm

  Hi Will,

  For something like this you’ll really need to rotoscope. You can make your life easier by drawing separate masks around each leg, the torso, head, etc… But there’s no shortcut around this. Hope this helps!

  Grant Swanson
  Visual Effects Supervisor
  Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
  videoapex.net
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  Carl Larsen

  February 23, 2009 at 5:28 pm

  https://store.creativecow.net/p/74/advanced_rotoscoping_techniques_for_adobe_after_effects

  Carl Larsen

  TelescopeMediaGroup.net
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  Jeremy Allen

  February 25, 2009 at 1:22 am

  I can vouch for Carl’s DVD. If you don’t know much about roto, you will be much better off watching this before you do the work.

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