Master Rotoscoping with Silhouette FX

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About Course

Learn the art of professional rotoscoping from scratch using Silhouette FX, the industry-standard
tool trusted by major VFX studios. This complete course takes you from beginner to advanced
levels, covering essential roto techniques, advanced shape animation, motion tracking, and
delivering high-quality masks ready for compositing in Nuke, After Effects, or any VFX pipeline.
 

What Will You Learn?

  • Rotoscoping is one of the most essential and in-demand skills in the visual effects industry — and
  • Silhouette FX is the leading software used by top studios for precise, high-quality roto work. In this
  • complete, step-by-step course, you will: Understand the Silhouette FX interface and workspace
  • navigation Learn to create and animate shapes with precision for isolating elements in live-action
  • footage Master Bezier & B-Spline tools for smooth curves Apply transformations and motion
  • tracking to speed up your workflow Use planar tracking and point tracking for complex shots
  • Work with feathering, edge blending, and shape grouping for seamless integration Understand
  • color space, alpha channels, and mask exports for VFX compositing Follow real-world
  • production techniques to meet professional studio standards

Course Content

What is rotoscoping and why it matters in VFX

  • Introduction of Rotoscoping
    03:12

Overview of Silhouette FX interface & project setup
Overview of Silhouette FX interface & project setup & Importing footage timeline navigation

Shape Creation,Shape Animation & Keyframing
Creating Bezier & B-Spline shapes, Adding, removing, and editing shape points Understanding tangents & curvature control,Manual keyframing vs. auto keyframing, Shape interpolation & motion smoothing

Tracking & Matchmoving in Silhouette FX
Introduction to point tracking, Planar tracking for complex surfaces& Mocha Tracking, Applying tracking data to shapes

Defocus and Edge Blur Roto in Silhouette FX

Motion Blur Roto in Silhouette FX

Hair Roto in Silhouette FX

Advanced Roto Techniques in Silhouette FX

Rendering Roto in Silhouette FX

Showreel Guidance and Presentation

Exercise Files

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