From the course: Learning Silhouette
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Tracking masks
- One nice feature of Silhouette is the fact that the tracker is built into some of the nodes such as the Roto node. So can you use a tracker to track strokes in masks. And this can help save time Rotoscoping. Let's give that a try. I've gone back to the project where I've drawn three shapes to create three overlapping masks to separate the actress. There's no animation yet. You can see that the camera gets closer to the actress. So it'd be great to track not only motion, but also scale changes. In order to use the built in tracker, you need to have a layer. The tracking data is applied to the layer and not the shapes themselves. So I'll click add layer and add one layer. We'll start with the torso shapes. I'll rename this torso track. In order for the shape to follow, it needs to be a child of the layer. So I'll click drag torso and drop it on torso track. So it becomes a child. Now we're ready to track with the…
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