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  • Masking moving objects on stationary background

    Posted by Jipi Lef on November 3, 2012 at 8:06 pm

    Hello,

    I need to mask moving foreground subjects and I was wondering if any techniques or plug-in existed to achieve that, or at least help, without resorting to manual rotoscoping. The camera is stationary, so in short I’m searching for something that can detect “moving” pixels with no luck so far…

    Thanks in advance!

    Jipi Lef replied 13 years, 10 months ago 5 Members · 5 Replies
  • 5 Replies
  • Mathew Fuller

    November 4, 2012 at 12:37 am

    Mocha for after fx.

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  • Erik Waluska

    November 4, 2012 at 2:45 am

    If you have a clean plate of the background you can probably use the difference matte effect. Kevin Mcauliffe has a tutorial on the difference matte here on the cow.

  • Tudor “ted” jelescu

    November 4, 2012 at 7:25 am

    The Rotobrush is not exactly rotoscoping but it does require a certain amount of tweaking. The difference matte mentioned before is a good way to go- if you do not have a “clean plate” then you can build one from various frames that combined can create a background without any figures in the foreground.

    Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
    Senior VFX Artist

  • Vishesh Arora

    November 4, 2012 at 8:57 am

    Jipi

    Here is a link to learn Rotobursh Technique:

    https://www.video2brain.com/en/lessons/isolating-a-subject-with-roto-brush

    And there are many out there on Youtube.

    Rotobrush is good in isolating a subject as Ted has suggested. Just a little bit of tweaking will give you fast and accurate result.

    Vishesh Arora
    3D and Motion Graphics Artist
    Films Rajendra

    Blog:
    https://digieffects.wordpress.com

    Demo Reel(3D):
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPgIJU_BR8

  • Jipi Lef

    November 4, 2012 at 1:32 pm

    Thanks for the answers, I’m going to check it out

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