Rotoscoping and Matte Painting in Blender

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rotoscoping_nodes_cropHave you ever wondered how to create alpha masks for compositing in Blender?  Well, Philippe Roubal has written an explanation on how to do rotoscopoing and matte painting in Blender, so check it out now!

Roubal writes:

Hi ! In the world of Visual Effects, Rotoscoping, Matte Painting and Garbage Painting are necessary and complementary functions. They are used each time a cut-out in the image is necessary, to remove a background or unwanted objects in a shot. They can save a video shot when Chromakey is not possible, or not enough perfect to achieve the desired effect.

I have searched for a long time a good and affordable software to do both Rotoscoping and Matte Painting, but without finding out “The” software, simple enough and matching my budget. So, I decided to dig more in depths with Blender in this way.

Finally, I have built a setup allowing Rotoscoping and Matte painting to be rendered in one pass, and generating a directly usable alpha mask.

This setup is ready to use and provided in a simple Blend file, with a PDF tutorial.

Download links on the top of the list on my tutorial page.

Best regards,

Philippe

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    • Johan

      I bow before anyone with PDF tutorial download links.

    • Pawel

      Nice!
      Check out his other tutorials too!

    • Lucas da Costa Dantas

      Back to the community thing ,damm .

      I have ideas for this Blender but i dont want to fall to this markething
      and start all over a new programming thig to fix it myself .

      I still a user with my artists needs not developer ,so
      for the 3.0 Blender version it needs a complete re-make .
      Cause theres too much try for improve it to now a must to change it for better .

      Very deep organizated simple falling to all complexity modeling needs .

      It have already a nice custom interface but the menus and panels must be all rebuild
      for this .

      Whats whorng with this soup ?I want speak with the manager .

    • Jahmaica

      Lucas da Costa Dantas <- I can’t understand this guy! What the hell is he talking about ? Every post he ever posted around, is a complete nonsense.

    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      Maybe there is really something unusual in his soup !o)

    • http://www.onjoFilms.com NeptuneKid

      My hats off to those that have really good websites and information and tuts on Blender.
      Thank you so much. Nice job.

    • n-pigeon

      @Lucas da Costa Dantas, this isn’t soup, this is casserole, if you want something like the soup then find it and eat. I much more like casserole than soup. Little metaphor.

    • http://rexprime.com rexprime

      this tut is pretty well done.

    • Nemesis

      Brilliant, thank you for the tutorial and the blend file.

    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      Thank you for your comments,

      These last years, I have found much more help in tutorials through the Blender Community than I could ever give back, but I try to bring my little stone when I have both time and something to show.

      Happy Blending !

      Philippe.

    • Pawel

      1. The tutorials are great. I’ll dive into them a.s.a.p
      2. Lucas da Costa Dantas is unfailingly totally incomprehensible. As always :)

    • McPandaBurger

      Lucas da Costa Dantas – A fine Display of engrish, as for the tuts they are very useful

    • JABayne

      Lucas da Costa Dantas – Seriously guys, he sounds like he is using Babel fish to translate and post his comments. That’s how it translates… crazy.

    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      Now, I have some fears :
      As English is not my native language, I hope that my tutorials are more understandable !

    • trav-o

      I think we all owe Lucas da Costa Dantas a round of applause. We all know that none of us could type such random babling even if we were having a seizure on top of the keyboard.

    • terence

      Hey, lets not get down on Lucas for trying to post his comments in a language he is unfamiliar with, whether he is using an online translator or just doing his best with what he has learned. He obviously has something to say, its just that most of us can’t understand what it is.

      Lucas, maybe you should post your comments in your native language. There are plenty of speakers of other languages here, and some of them post in languages other than English, so I’m sure many would understand what you are trying to say in this way.

    • TxRx

      Terence, I suspect you may be right. I’ve had a look at Roubal’s site, there’s some damn good tutorials and examples on there. Nice work Philippe!

    • http://www.freewebs.com/craigomatic craigomatic

      Thanks for this tutorial and the project blend file :) Very nice work, and very insightful – I enjoy tutorials that explain ‘why’ they take certain steps so the user can learn more than just the steps to take :)

      Bravo!

    • P. Monk

      Thank you ROUBAL,

      This is very helpful. And have no fears, your English is perfectly understandable.

      P. Monk

    • timcarr

      Amazing… I was looking for a good tutorial about this last week… I’ll have to walk through this one tonight.

    • Alex Blank

      Sweet. Definitely something I am going to employ in the near future.

    • Kinduun

      master, thanks for this

    • http://www.drywall-tools.org/ tools drywall

      Do you know exactly where I can find some much more data or information?