Create a Rotoscope Animation with Mocha and After Effects

Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which artwork is traced over the live-action film, frame by frame. In this tutorial, Ross Shain from Boris FX takes inspiration from famous clips like Richard Linklater's "Scanner Darkly", Aha's "Take on Me" and Adult Swim's "Dream Corp LLC" to create a stylized, animated look.

The Mocha Pro plug-in for Adobe After Effects was used for planar tracking and to segment the image into native AE mask layers. We also used magnetic spline and edge-snapping tools to save hours of time with less manual drawing and keyframing.

Download the source clip from Pexels.com:

https://www.pexels.com/video/man-hold...

Learn more about Mocha Pro at Boris FX:

https://bit.ly/3bHtWdb

Compare Mocha AE to Mocha Pro chart:

https://bit.ly/2YXxF46

AFTER EFFECTS

AFTER EFFECTS

Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which artwork is traced over the live-action film, frame by frame. In this tutorial, Ross Shain from Boris FX takes inspiration from famous clips like Richard Linklater's "Scanner Darkly", Aha's "Take on Me" and Adult Swim's "Dream Corp LLC" to create a stylized, animated look.

The Mocha Pro plug-in for Adobe After Effects was used for planar tracking and to segment the image into native AE mask layers. We also used magnetic spline and edge-snapping tools to save hours of time with less manual drawing and keyframing.

Download the source clip from Pexels.com:

https://www.pexels.com/video/man-hold...

Learn more about Mocha Pro at Boris FX:

https://bit.ly/3bHtWdb

Compare Mocha AE to Mocha Pro chart:

https://bit.ly/2YXxF46

Course Overview

What’s a Rich Text element?

The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.

Static and dynamic content editing

A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!

How to customize formatting for each rich text

Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system.

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