Silhouette 2022 has made working with Mocha Pro data even more streamlined. Join Ben Brownlee as he shows you how to tap directly into Mocha Pro track...
Better Mocha tracking and shape workflows in Silhouette 2022
Boris FX Silhouette 2022 has a new Inpaint node, designed for fast cleanup and object removal. In this short tutorial, Ben Brownlee takes you through ...
Logo Removal with Inpaint for Silhouette 2022
The Silhouette 2022 release adds 400+ different filter nodes! Ben Brownlee explores how to use Sapphire’s new lighting filters together with the...
Silhouette 2022: Relight a Scene with New Sapphire Effects
Silhouette 2022 has a new concept for tracking and transforms ; The Surface. Join Ben Brownlee as he demonstrates the power of the Surface to create m...
Using Silhouette 2022's Surface and DOD Nodes for Faster Compositing and Inserts
The industry’s leading roto and paint tool is now packed with major features for compositing. Silhouette 2022 delivers 400+ nodes including premier pl...
What's New in Silhouette 2022
In this short Quick Tip, Ross Shain shows how to create an unwarped stabilized workflow for paint fixes by running the Mocha Pro plugin inside Silhoue...
Quick Tip for Silhouette: PowerMesh Workflow for Stabilized Paint
A VFX masterclass for Silhouette and Mocha Pro. Learn high level paint & roto skills plus time-saving tricks with PowerMesh and Mega Plates. ...
01 - Wire Remove Breakdown and Footage Prep
Part 2 uses Mocha Pro’s MegaPlate feature to easily create a cleanplate to remove the wires crossing the background. You’ll learn how to c...
02 - Clean Background Wires with Mocha MegaPlate
Part 3 continues with the Mocha Mega Plate in Silhouette from the previous chapter. In this exercise you will bring the tracking data over from Mocha,...
03 - Use Mocha Mega Plates in Silhouette
Part 4 shows one technique for quickly removing wires that are free from the body. This exercise shows a large number of roto tricks and techniques, a...
04 - Wire Remove using Patch Roto in Silhouette
Part 5 looks more in-depth at the roto tools and how we can begin to bring back in the parts of the image we need, in this example the face. We explor...
05 - Simplify Complex Removes with Hold-in Mattes
Part 6 is about squeezing the most out of your system resources with proper project organisation. Free up more RAM in your cache with some simple tech...
06 - Improve Speeds and Organization with Silhouette
Part 7 looks at an aspect of wire removal that used to be done entirely with Paint, but can now be done much more efficiently using Mocha’s Powe...
07 - Wire Removal & PowerMesh - Dynamic Patch
Part 8 takes the PowerMesh data from the previous exercise and brings it into Silhouette to create our dynamic patch. Care is paid to keep the movemen...
08 - Painting the Body Wire - PowerMesh workflows with Silhouette
Part 9 takes a short breather to review where we are in the shot and what tasks are left to do. Once this is completed, it is time to look at a wire t...
09 - Review & Reuse Nodes for Fast Results
Part 10 looks at complex hold-in masks and some of the most complex roto you can do is hair. We tackle this daunting task by identifying the best tool...
10 - Hair Roto - The Right Way to Do It with Silhouette
Part 11 continues our look at hair. After reviewing the hair roto we created in Part 10, we turn our gaze to the even more complex area on the other s...
11 - Hair Paint - Creating Complex Alpha Channels for Compositing
We are painting hair in Part 12. This can be a time-consuming job, so let’s learn some techniques to make it better. These including viewer setu...
12 - Manually Painting Hair with Silhouette - Do It Right
Part 13 brings the five individual sections we have created so far together into a final composite. There are traps of our own making along the way, p...
13 - Bringing It All Together
We have saved one of the trickiest sections til last. Part 14 focuses on manual paint and removing the wire from over the face. This presents us with ...
14 - Removing Wires from the Face - Manual Paint
Part 15 is the final part of this complex wire removal series. There is still time for some compositing tricks, grain management techniques and a fina...
15 - Final Compositing, Grain Management and Review