COW Tutorials: After Effects A Film Compositor’s Techniques for Rotoscoping

[Adolf Witzeling]

Nice tutorial Pete, thanks for sharing!
Would it be possible to post the footage used (for practicing )?
-Adi

[Justin Productions]

Wow! Simply amazing! I don’t know if you speak french, I live near Montreal and it’s great to know there are Montrealers on COW!

Awesome tutorial!

Thx a bunch!

Justin Productions
Tangerin01@hotmail.com
Adobe After Effects 6.5 Professional

[Jim Harvey]

I can’t say DUDE because Aharon already used it, but I’ll throw out this one; Elegant! Well done (Dude)

[Peter O’connell]

HI everyone, thanks for your responses. I’m glad to hear you all found it useful.

-TonyTony: You can use the motion tracker in the same way to stabilize what you need to roto and then invert your stabilization (with an expression between the position and anchor point) .

I guess I could do a part 2 of this tutorial to demonstrate that, and a few other roto techniques that I didn’t have time to mention in this tutorial.

Thanks again everyone
Pete

Thursday; December 7, 2006
2:19 PM

barxseven.com

[Jimmy Brunger]

Hi guys,

I’ve got a biggish roto job coming up, so really fancy watching this…but it doesn’t seem to be loading..I’m getting the light blue BG screen and a brief QT logo pop up just before it, but no movie.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jim.

[Ron Lindeboom]

Download Firefox and try it using Firefox. Safari sometimes (based on your security settings) does not let pages load.

Best,

Ron Lindeboom

[Jimmy Brunger]

I’m on IE for PC….I ended up downloading the QT mov and watched it in QT player. Good stuff, thanks Pete! Should come in really useful on Monday 🙂

[Chris Smith]

Finally got to watch it. Brilliant. Now if Adobe would use your fantastic line of thinking to make roto tools that are worthy in the first place.

Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

[Peter O’connell]

https://barxseven.com/rotoTutorialMedia/

Enjoy
Pete

Monday; December 11, 2006
11:52 AM

barxseven.com

[Jimmy Brunger]

Great tute Pete!

The anchor point expression thing came in really handy today on a 5hr roto job of a couple of people jumping in the air legs splayed….Just a shame the client didn’t really notice the resulting 3 second animation! Might aswell have used a still! Bah! It’s what they asked for though…

The time we spend on the littlest things eh? Will anyone ever notice?!