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The Art of Rotoscoping

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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VFX Courses Animation Courses Video Editing Courses Visual Effects Courses Rotoscoping Courses Compositing Courses

Course Description

Overview

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

Introduction
  • What is rotoscoping?
  • What you should know
  • Short history of rotoscoping
1. Converting Video to Art Using Photoshop
  • Using filters on video
  • Export video from Photoshop
  • Popular looks
  • Using Snap Art
  • Applying Photoshop actions to video
2. Converting Video to Art Using After Effects
  • Using Auto Trace
  • The cartoon effect
  • Continuum art looks
  • Sapphire Stylize
  • Creation art effects
  • Transfusion: Style transfer suite
3. Turning Yourself into an Animated Character
  • Introduction to Characterizer
  • Capturing your face
  • Picking styles and generating the puppet
  • Animating and exporting the puppet
4. Exploring Roto Tools
  • 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
5. Professional Roto Tools
  • Rotoscoping with Mocha AE
  • Adjusting the shape
  • Using Mocha Pro
  • Introducing Silhouette
6. Challenge
  • Challenge overview
  • Creating "A Scanner Darkly" look
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Eran Stern

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