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Rotoscoping

Rotoscoping

- So far we've created masks to cut out still images, but what happens if the thing you're trying to mask is moving? In there you need to rotoscope and rotoscoping simply animates a shape of a mask over time. So let's give that a try in Fusion. Let's figure out what we're going to mask first. Here I have the example scene and this is saved as 5-4 and it has green screen footage. Now even though I can use green screen tools to try to remove the green here, there's some problems. The X tracking marks and also the wrinkles will cause the green screen tools to have a hard time. So what I could do is actually rotoscope the actress in such a way that I throw away the tracking marks and some of the worst wrinkles. So let's get started with that. So this time I'm going to go to Tools, Mask, and choose Polygon. Once I have the Polygon tool, I can go ahead and click in the view and get the control vertices. The difference is that the Polygon tool creates linear spans and will give you tangent…

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