fxguide recently published this outstanding
roundup of state-of-the-art rotoscoping tools and techniques - which all beginning visual effects artists need to be familiar with.
Rotoscoping is the process of manually altering film or video footage
one frame at a time. The frames can be painted on arbitrarily to create
custom animated effects like lightning or lightsabres, or traced to
create realistic traditional style animation or to produce hold-out
mattes for compositing elements in a scene and, more recently, to
produce depth maps for stereo conversion.
As a VFX artist, you are primarily creating motion graphics or visual
effects. A thorough knowledge of rotoscoping and roto tools is vital to
solving a vast amount of problem solving in VFX: rig removal, stereo
conversion, greenscreen compositing, hold out mattes, split screens, and
even object or feature-based color grading. It is perhaps one of the
widely used tools in visual effects.
It's a
lengthy read, but well worth it. Bookmark it for future reference, too!
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