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Rotoscoping the characters

Rotoscoping the characters - After Effects Tutorial

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Rotoscoping the characters

with like Mocha Pro and all this stuff, but in this tutorial we're going to look at, how to do something much simpler and cheesier, and we're going to mask it quick and dirty style. I'm going to show you how to do that. 'Cause I think that might be helpful sometimes. Sometimes it's just too much work, to open up another program and do stuff there. So I'm going to go down to layer 34. So I'm going to go down to layer 34. And actually it's the mat right above that. So to make this mask I just made a solid layer, and turned off the visibility, and then made a mask on it with the layer selected. And then you can use this as a mat, because there's the solid layer is there, and you don't need this to be any kind of layer. And while the layer is turned off, you can still see the masks and animate them. So if I press the letter U, you can see that there's the mask for Tahini, the yellow one. And there's also the mask number two,…

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