From the course: After Effects Compositing: 5 Rotoscoping & Edges

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Evaluate before beginning roto

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From the course: After Effects Compositing: 5 Rotoscoping & Edges

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Evaluate before beginning roto

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- So, rotoscoping is a lot of work. Why bother? And, how do you know whether you can avoid it? I assume that you're taking this course on the effects because you like visual effects, you like to create amazing scenes involving incredible feeds, and you also like keeping your talent safe and not actually running them in front of a moving automobile that could kill them. In this case, we started with a background and foreground, as you do in visual effects. So, the foreground, otherwise known as the element, is a skater who's doing a great job of getting air. And, nonetheless, he's a little bit less than halfway high enough to clear the car that speeds through in the background, also known as the scene. Now, on this shot, we definitely planned for the effects, but we didn't plan for roto. Of course, it would have made a lot of sense to put a green screen in here. But there are a couple of problems. One is, you'd need a big green screen. And we actually had one. There were other…

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