Rotoscoping After Effects (Monster hunter)

[NewAgeDirector]

Great video keep up the good work.

[l33trikimaru]

so rotoscoping is done by sketching around a videoclip through each frame at a time??? i have an olympus u tough that records at 30/15 frames a second so if i record for 5 seconds i would need to rotoscope 150 frames? if so looooong i bet it took this piss doing all the lightsabers for star wars

[FrozenShield]

@l33trikimaru Yah it takes a really long time rotoscoping. You can try rotobrushing if you have cs5. But rotobrushing really slows down the preview render.

[rdoetjes]

@l33trikimaru Well in most frames not a lot changes.

This tutorial is also wrong if you rotoscope you make individual masks for head, neck, upper- lower arm and calf foot etc. Then you only need to move a few points, per frame. There's also a wonderful thing right now called rotobrush that really eases the process.

[FrozenShield]

@rdoetjes It depends on what you are doing. That's just a different technique. The character just stays in one area so having just one mask takes less time. Rotobrush tool is great, but it chews up a lot of memory.

[l33trikimaru]

so rotoscoping is done by sketching around a videoclip through each frame at a time???

[FrozenShield]

@l33trikimaru yes

[StylemasterKaze]

So this eliminates the need for masking?

[FrozenShield]

@StylemasterKaze Not at all! Rotobrushing is nice because it does a lot of the work for you, the downside is unless you have a beast of a computer running the preview will take ages with rotobrushing enabled. I prefer using a green screen over rotobrushing.

Masking is still important depending on what project you are working on. I still use it a lot.

[StylemasterKaze]

@FrozenShield Thank you for the explination. :) However I am still confused on the applications of rotoscoping. For example I know it was used for the star wars light saber effect, but what else could it be used for?

[FrozenShield]

@StylemasterKaze There is a lot you can do with rotoscoping. I use it mostly to fix parts in my scene that I don't want. For example lets say I take a shot of the air and ground so it's about 50/50 for the room the ground and air takes up. If a bird flies through the air I can duplicate the layer then freeze frame it to a point where the bird isn't there and use rotoscoping on the sky. It's also useful for vignetting.

[StylemasterKaze]

@FrozenShield So it seems to have many diverse uses. I'm gonna start messing around with rotobrush

[FrozenShield]

@StylemasterKaze Ok good luck!

[TheQ0602]

I honestly think this way is easier than the CS5 rotobrush. The new one is just too automatic. One little adjustment changes the whole thing. Not to mention using the pen tool helps you be more precise.

[FrozenShield]

@TheQ0602 lol wtf I haven't checked how many views this had and it has 21k 0.0. I should make more tutorial videos. Well It depends I used the rotobrush tool in one of my projects and I loved it. I use the pen tool a lot as well with the rotobrush tool. The only complaint is that the rotobrush tool makes everything so slow to load.

[TheQ0602]

@FrozenShield Yea. It does. I guess it just depends what your working on. Ive tried to do really complex rotoscoping with rotobrush, and I just couldn't get it to do everything right. I guess it depends on what you're doing.

[PAINmedia]

in Cs5 this is easy as fuck theseadays... rotobrushing is PERFECT!

[MultiJacob123]

in cs5 you can do ratobrush!!!

[dreamerboy1231]

Umm nice video but why rotoscoping u'r 3d objects ? if u just can save u'r 3d objects under .png ? if u render an object out under png format the background is transparent so u can change the background in everthing u like u don't have to rotoscope agian.. jus a tip ;)..

[FredNTheGreatPerhaps]

This sounds like Traveler from Householdhacker.

[MrDarcyzPP]

so's and umm's bother me

[iwatcher69]

thanks man pretty informative vid/tut

[garrettmyreel]

Thank you so much. Just spent 2 hours trying to figure out how to do that in AE.

[byrdmossedem33]

what im trying to do is mask out a person from a video frame by frame. Like you mentioned in Sony Vegas you can mask in a frame, go to the next frame (right click: reset mask) and start over. Which is a lot easier for me then to go frame by frame moving points.

[FrozenShield]

OOOOOOOo it's in Sony Vegas. :/ Yah that's the best way. What I recommend is that you buy a green screen. If you use a green screen you do not even need to rotoscope! All you need to do is chroma key it out. Just make sure you have proper lighting.

[TheFXGuy]

the only downside to a greenscreen in AE is that if u use the color key plugin, u have to use like 40 of them to get it to work right and if u use keylight, it takes 4ever to render. But if u got a fast comp (or a lot of patience), greenscreening is the way to go.

[MrDarcyzPP]

@TheFXGuy Wow, if you have a fast computer, then green screen is the way to go...I'll remember that. Very useful. And I suppose if you have a slow computer you use something else...because that would be much faster.

[pajathetrut]

do you know how musch does a green screen costs?ha what now,and you suggest that we buy a green screen?!

[FrozenShield]

@pajathetrut yah I do. It only cost me 40$ for a 10' by 20' greenscreen and @TheFXGUY there is a plugin called Keylight. I think it comes with After Effects CS4, but I could be wrong.

[TheFXGuy]

@FrozenShield

I said that, and I have a much faster computer now that renders it close to real time. What I meant was that on my old computer, keylight took a long time to render.

[Videshi2001]

@FrozenShield

Yeah, it doesn't cost that much dude. At worst you can literally take large sheets of green paper on a wall. It's a lot easier and cheaper than it used to be.

[mabdog]

@pajathetrut I just bought a green blanket at a garage sale for 5 dollars

[byrdmossedem33]

i dont understand what your saying. lol

[FrozenShield]

what are you trying to do? Are you trying to rotoscope out a character from a game or are you trying something different? If you are rotoscoping out a char I strongly suggest you do it the way I did it in the video. Doing it the way you explained will take a lot longer to do.

[byrdmossedem33]

okay one question...

instead of dragging the points in each frame, how can i just make a new mask every frame?

[FrozenShield]

all you would need to do is from the first frame would make the opacity 0% the next frame and make a new mask on the same frame as the mask with the frame of 0%.

[dazmate]

This helped me a lot! Thanks.

[FrozenShield]

:D I am happy to hear.

[TPSGeeek]

thats awesome! But ive only got sony vegas movie studio 8.0

i cant do rotoscoping with that

but i really want to do that stuff

[FrozenShield]

You can do it in vegas as well. I just like doing it in after effects. In sony vegas click on the square pan thing at the end of the clip above the plus sign looking thing then once you are in there you there is a bar and it has Position and below that has mask and click the empty box and there you go you can rotoscope

[TPSGeeek]

no it only works for sony vegas pro.

Not for movie studio

[FrozenShield]

O ok.