Tim Hawker Match Moving Blog

Rotoscoping - Part 2

Hours upon countless hours were spent tediously removing the arm from the footage using various tools in After Effects. I took a still frame, clone brushed out my arm, and used the Motion Track tools to track the still along with the video. I then masked out the frame to just where the arm was. Lots of touched up frames were requried as this is a rotating shot. I really had to think about how to do this and went though countless alternatives before arriving at this solution. It works well, although you can see where the geometry doesn’t match very well. This will however be a lot less obvious when I’ve added all the various effects to the composition.