From the course: The Art of Rotoscoping

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Preparation for roto

Preparation for roto - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: The Art of Rotoscoping

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Preparation for roto

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- [Instructor] Sometimes, the only way to separate a subject from its background is by classic manual rotoscoping work. In these circumstances, you'll need to examine the shot and come up with the best strategy to minimize your labor work before starting this journey. Take a look at this happy farmer, for example, as he carries his vegetables across the field. Our mission here is to cut him out of this background and composite him on top of these railroad tracks. So following my advices at the outset of this chapter, I've already trimmed the clip to the necessary length and watched the video a few times. I've noticed that due to the parallax in this shot, the field is moving, as well as the guy. So the first step was to track the motion and apply it back to the Railroad Tracks layer. Notice that this layer also has the Camera Lens Blur effect to match the depth of field to the background of the original clip. Now I've already…

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