These are a couple of fun little projects I did for my Rotoscoping and Paint class last quarter. Rotoscoping to me is like the video equivalent of using photoshop to alter a photograph. The process is very similar (cutting, pasting and masking) but of course since you are dealing with video instead of stills, things get a little bit more complicated than that. There is a lot of detailed and tedious work involved because in many cases you have to do work in almost every single frame of the video, but you can definitely have some fun with it too! Also, if you have a good technique and you make your work look seamless, your efforts will definitely be appreciated by other people in the industry. Rotoscoping and Paint can be used for so many different things in the film industry, from removing wires, rigs and tracker markers from a set or green screen, removing a person or object from a background, for 2d to 3d conversions, creating clean plates or you can find some other fun and creative uses for it in both visual effects and motion graphics. Take a look!

Lighsabers!

I found this clip on youtube and replaced the girls swords with lightsabers:

Thriller fun!

In this final project, I decided to remove one of the dancers from the background of this video so I could use her silhouette in a fun way and create some motion graphics.

Here is the original video showing the process:

Here is the final output:

Created in Adobe After Effects

Sources videos found on youtube.

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