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Rotobrush 2.0

Rotobrush 2.0 - After Effects Tutorial

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Rotobrush 2.0

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- [Instructor] Not long ago, After Effects got the refreshed Roto Brush tool which makes the tedious task of rotoscoping a person and separating him from the background much easier, faster and more precise, thanks to Machine Learning Technology. So let's put it to the test and check how well it performs. So I have this clip courtesy of Adobe stock of a dancer on a bridge. Now I also animated three shape layers that have colorized with the 4-Color Gradient effect, and then I animated them using a Simple Train Path Operator. So they are drawing themselves in a cascade style giving this scene a much more colorful atmosphere. But to make it a decent MoGraph composition, we need to separate this dancer and place him above these vector layers. Now with the past, this would take forever and this is because his arms and legs are moving all over the place sometimes even being obscured by his body. So this was a manual task,…

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