From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments

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Rotoscoping out the characters

Rotoscoping out the characters

meat and potatoes of this trick. We're actually going to rotoscope Taani, or rotoscope the background rather, so that the clean plate shows through. I'm going to talk a little bit about some different ways you might want to do that, and we're going to kind of look at this project overall. Basically what I've done here so far rotoscoping this entire shot 'cause it would take many hours of really boring, tedious work. Which isn't fun. So I want to teach you the principles that I use and so you can use that on your own project. So I'm going to select this top layer, I'm going to hit the letter M to reveal all the mask information. I'm going to resize my interface just a little bit so we can see what's going on. So you can see I actually used several masks here. Often times I might have kind of like a key, like a hero mask, and you can see this to right arm outer, this is kind of like the main mask that I use to mask everything out. And I have little supplemental masks like this one here,…

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