Roto allows you to bring back or hide certain parts of a shot.
What is a Roto artist good at?
Drawing skills to be able to follow the shape and form of something
Be good at the program
Delivery; work well and within strict guidelines and be able to work under pressure
Be proactive and willing to learn
What is prep artist?
you clean background things like tracking markers in the background
What is a Prep artist good at?
be good at drawing and painting
Have a keen eye, recognize what needs to be cleaned
Patience; Be methodical and through
Knowledge of VFX programs and be willing to use other more relevant ones
Organize and work with strict deadlines.
when your breaking up shapes find the hard and soft edge and place the line in-between to get a nicer fall off.
you would normally roto on a stabilize tracker.
Using the roto paint node for prep
frame hold the paint node to keep the part you wanted painted gone.
a two point track will stabilize between the two points and then allow you to work on stabilized footage.
Premult should be the last thing in your tree before merging over the plate.
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