![]() one thing i could do is take a knife and a stencil and physically cut out my shapes another thing i could do is use a cookie cutter. imagine i have gingerbread dough, and i want to cut it into stars or various shapes. it’s easier, however, to think of it in the inverse-taking specific footage out, rather than snipping background away. they are using the rotobrush to mask away footage, the same as if they used tape to cover up sections of a canvas. i have a little issue about terminology that i won’t get into, but what people want to do in gifsets and video edits with the rotobrush is MASK. rotobrush is ONE of the tools you can use to rotoscope. i’ll try to be concise: rotoscoping is the method. So here’s where you might be like, jesse what the fuck are you talking about dot jpg. it’s mind-boggling to think about the leaps and bounds we’ve made with editing tech in the last 10-15 years alone. sprinkle in a little web 2.0, accessibility and increasingly easy use of tools from the mid-90s onwards (and the implementation of the rotobrush tool specifically after 2010), and we have a fascinating study of how tools can be transformed from their original use to do things that are different but equally valid. aka, they could mask out background footage. over time, and as tech advanced, people realized that if they completed half the rotoscoping process, they would have an isolated scene from the original footage. if you try to rotoscope a scene that doesn’t have much contrast to it, you may not come out the other end with much success.īut remember: the tool wasn’t created so that you could cut your blorbo out of a scene, it was so that artists could trace movement for funky and weird animated characters in the 1920s. dave and max used a white sheet for contrast and added a car light to their apparatus to enhance that contrast when they were tracing. ![]() Well, maybe not much if you don’t care to nerd out like i do, but it should absolutely inform the choices you make re: scene selection. (or, more accurately, only max and dave did, at least until the patent expired lol) the animated character would be drawn over / match the traced figures, and bam, animators suddenly had a HUGE shortcut to imitating real life movement in drawn scenes. they’d then take the image produced onto the tracing paper, trace out the figure (in the first case, dave dancing on top of a roof in front of a white sheet), and repeat this frame by frame to eventually trace an entire scene. then, in 1915, two brothers named max and dave fleischer stuck a projector to a table, attached it to a car light, and beamed that light onto a block with tracing paper attached. in its early days, animation was clunky and generally unnatural-looking not due to stylistic decisions about motion, but because artists were mostly guessing at how a movement would be divided into frames between point A and point B of any given movement. not masking, not giffing-hand-drawn animation. The main thing you need to understand is that rotoscoping was meant for animation. for mainstream giffing and video editing purposes, it is most often used as a way to mask footage out. conceptually, things are slightly different, and that’s due to how it was meant to be used-but like many artistic tools, rotoscoping was transformed by contemporary artists / editors / animators / etc to become the versatile thing it is today. physically, it’s a little like using a selection tool on video. Very simply put, rotoscoping is a tracing technique. with housekeeping out of the way, let’s go! definitely recommend viewing it in your browser. basic knowledge of the interface and workflow, including but not limited to: compositions/precompositions, keyframes, and how to use brush toolsĪlso, before you click “read more,” please note that this is about 3000 words long. ![]() adobe after effects (minimum version cs5 / anything released after 2010).Though this is pretty comprehensive and info-heavy already, there are still things i don’t go over! but it should be a guide fit for beginner-intermediate after effects users. i will also briefly go over how to use the pen tool to mask in after effects. i’ll talk about rotoscoping-what it is, its history, and how to mask with the rotobrush successfully. ![]() Hi! i’m user ames tattooine, and i’m gonna go over how to cut footage out of a scene. ![]()
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