How To Rotoscope In After Effects (The Basics) - After Effects Tutorial

How to rotoscope in after effects! Sound complicated? It's really not! Rotoscoping in After Effects is a skill that can be easy to learn and will serve you huge rewards the more you grow in using After Effects! This technique can save you lots of time and energy if you learn to mask out well early on. This tutorial will show you the basics of how to get started rotoscoping in after effects!
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[@dodmedia]

Don't go frame by frame! 😫 Just place a keyframe at the start and end of your clip, then adjust your mask in the middle. Then if needed, add another keyframe in the middles of those two halves so you're essentially halving the distance needed each time to keep the mask in place, making it more accurate. Going frame by frame is a huge waste of time! Start at both ends and work from the middles, then quarters, then eigths, then sixteenths etc.

[@arf8314]

DOD Media wow nice tip thanks hat helps 👍

[@optumcss]

can you create a step by step video? this would help the beginner's better. and i would so appreciate

[@DaCarnival]

He basically says this in the video...

[@UltraSquad]

You actually have to do frame by frame for some movies or so especially for fantasy, if you watched Space Jam, you would understand what I mean.
Space Jam movie used a lot of VFX effects, rotoscoping was used for some effects too.

[@raprein3]

Just as a tip for the shortcuts: Hand tool, you can shortcut this by pressing the spacebar and moving the image around with your left mouse-button clicked!

[@MotionArrayTutorials]

Thanks Robert!

[@mtskogs]

Holding spacebar will give you the hand tool without having to toggle back and forth. Also, for this case, would using the rotobrush be a better option?

[@UltraSquad]

Amazing guide, simply but very clearly explained how to rotoscope, thank you for this guide.

[@FelixSR]

Awsome, i have rotoscoped a cuple of times, but this really help :D

[@MotionArrayTutorials]

Glad to hear Felix!

[@ChrisFroyd]

This is more animating a mask than rotoscoping.

[@MotionArrayTutorials]

Very fair point.

[@nemesis5481]

_It was ENTIRELY masking; he did not use the rotoscope tool once, which is why this video gets a huge dislike from me: misleading title._

[@prossnk]

This is call masking, you should change your title. It is misleading people!

[@fergadelics]

Pramod Sasanka I get you, but the concept is the same. Extracting an object for other purposes. The tool could been named something else but I’m okay w it.
verb
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transfer (an image from live action film) into another film sequence using a rotoscope.
"the gulls were filmed from a cliff top and rotoscoped into the shot"

[@abc229_Ab]

yes he is right

[@Bthefilmer]

Rotoscoping literally means frame by frame in which he is masking frame by frame. Which would be called, Rotoscoping.

[@JoeriClason]

@@fergadelics It is a waste of time when we look for true Retroscoping

[@fergadelics]

@@JoeriClason fair enough. Extracting is definitely a part of my process to composite a scene for roto and Ill use a dozen tools in the pipeline. But pure roto, I understand. Kinda makes me twitch to think of the hours I’ve put in over the years...

[@RonnKilby]

Try RotoBrush.

[@DreamPLAYdevYT]

Make a tutorial of google play old tv ads , it was awesome

[@mathewbyoung]

I thought this was going to be a Rotoscope tutorial. It wasn't.

[@sk.mahabuburrahman6306]

Brother, you are a great teacher! Word.

[@MotionArrayTutorials]

Thanks so much!

[@AmanFilmsamanfilms]

Thanks bro 😁😁😁😘😘😘

[@alexlee2358]

Good tutorial but this is masking not rotoscoping

[@MotionArrayTutorials]

Fair point

[@fergadelics]

Adobe might of called it select-o-tool

[@MUSAKHAN-nw8gu]

I think it's also can be done in premiere Pro.my computer is not powerful enough to run after effects.should I upgrade my pc or practice it in premiere Pro?

[@optumcss]

how do I work with the templates that have rotoskoop display with in the template? And can you put direction video with the template download as well ?

[@ankitrana2813]

Great tutorial over rotoscoping thanks bro keep it up :) :''') .-.

[@MotionArrayTutorials]

Thanks!

[@ankitrana2813]

I'd appreciate you're work and add more tutorial over after effect like track mattes in after effects please sir and thanks again :''') and I have subscribed and liked you're channel and video already sir .-. ^,^ :) :D .-, .-.

[@gordiansandbox391]

Are you serious? If you are a beginner DO NOT WATCH THIS. First, it's not rotoscoping. Second, why use 2 keyboard commands for pulling up the hand then going back to the pen when you can just temporarily hold the space bar down. Third, and most important, YES keyframing frame by frame is insane, as he mentions in the video. This guy needs to learn how to use a tracker. Ever heard if tracking? Obviously, he never did.

[@ericw9]

Wait I feel like this didn't teach rotoscoping

[@nemesis5481]

_IT DID NOT._

[@amandapassos_art]

please please please pleaseeeee, more videos about this

[@Alekazamy]

not rotoscoping

[@Taran_Bali]

Ghuseya rotoscoping ni hundi eh

[@fedor3000]

Dude, your buddy's playing Rocket League

[@amandapassos_art]

adorei

[@AdvanceCreativeDesign]

Please title MASKING. wasting of time.

[@lobitome]

Not even close to what rotoscoping is.

[@nemesis5481]

_That was NOT rotoscoping; that was an exercise in masking. Dislike!_

[@thefilmcommittee5849]

change your tittle this isnt rotoscoping

[@montezumaTv]

another wrong tutorial

[@MotionArrayTutorials]

Sorry to hear montezumaTv. Anything in particular you took issue with?

[@montezumaTv]

@@MotionArrayTutorials no problem. thx

[@WanJieMing]

I don't like the subject you are using for this tutorial. What is he doing ?