Course Description

If you want to learn how to use After Effects to create realistic visual effects shots and not just motion graphics, then you're looking at the right course. This course will reveal the tips, tricks and applications of rotoscoping in post-production visual effects - one of the first step to creating any visual effects shot.

Learn How to do Rotoscoping the Right Way.

Using 2 real live-action films as test shots for this course, learn by actually working on a shot while following the course as a step-by-step guide to proper and professional rotoscoping.

Why This Course?

  • Taught by a real professional in the visual effects and film industry who worked on actual Hollywood blockbusters
  • Step-by-step guide with practical and hands-on live-action shots to work on
  • Insights and know-hows that would save you time and money when working on your own visual effects shot
  • Primer to a series of other more advanced visual effects tricks, tips and methods
  • Networking and open collaboration opportunities with instructor and students

Say Good Bye to Buzzing Edges and the Frustration of Trying to Mask out a Character from a Shot!

You will Learn How:

  • Rotoscoping is applied in film and television
  • To do proper rotoscoping
  • To use After Effects and Mocha AE for rotoscoping
  • To apply basic and advanced rotoscoping techniques and tricks
  • Rotoscoping can be avoided and the other effective ways of doing rotoscoping

Complete with additional documents, students who complete the course will also be awarded with a bonus section - kind of like that satisfaction you feel when you finally finish that visual effects shot.

If you participate in this course, you will walk away learning and applying what I learned myself, whilst working on the visual effects of major Hollywood film and television.

The best part of it all - this course is utterly and ridiculously AFFORDABLE.

VFX Professional, Emmys 2014 Attendee, TEDx & SMPTE Speaker

Vicki Lau

Vicki started as a humble student of digital media back in the small city of Singapore with a background in visual effects and programming in film and television. Without any contacts or connections in the United States, she began her career at the age of 18 from Singapore, working her way up into the Hollywood film industry and landing her first break working on AMC's hit series, The Walking Dead (Season 4), as well as other movies such as Guardians of the Galaxy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the recent Alice Through the Looking Glass.Already recognized by her country and by major organizations as an expert in her field, Vicki has made great strides for someone her age, being in consistently high demand for jobs - averaging about 4 job offers and requests for interviews per freelance month(s) of availability (even prior to graduation), hitting a record number of 11 job offers per season of availability in the early summer of 2014, whilst her college peers are still struggling to find their first entry-level position in the field. At only 24 years of age, she was one of the youngest speakers and presenters at the SMPTE Annual Technical Conference in its time, where she was a panelist and speaker for virtual reality in motion pictures.She gave a TEDx talk on visual effects and virtual reality in May 2016 at Napa Valley, CA.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Rotoscoping Basics

  • 2

    Rotoscoping Practices

    • Interface Walkthrough

    • Breaking it Down

    • Downloadable File - The Usual Suspects_CROPPED

    • Edges and Points

    • Complex Cases

    • Rotoscoping with Mocha AE

      FREE PREVIEW

    • SHOT TRYOUT: Rotoscope this!

    • Downloadable File - American Psycho_CROPPED
  • 3

    Rotoscoping Summary

    • Rotoscoping Best Practices

    • The Thing about Rotoscoping

    • Stay Tuned for More!
  • 4

    BONUS

    • Networking

    • "How to Get a Job in Hollywood"

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