Paint

Paint or rotopainting as it is popularly called is a process by which a patch is created in either a composting package such as Nuke or After effects by clone tools available in them or by creating a patch in Photoshop and then importing them in to applications such as after effects and composite them by a combination of 2D tracking. The second process is what i followed primarily because of the fact that my shot in question was a long shot with minimal shaking and needed somewhat intricate manipulation pixels to make sure that the patch entirely matches up to its surroundings and stays hidden in front of the eyes of the viewer.

The footage that i have used in this experiment was downloaded from the website 'www.tootorials.org.' which allowed me to use this in my project.


The plate that i obtained from the original footage as well as the cleaned up footage in Photoshop is provided below.

Original Shot

Patch made in photoshop

Cleaned up shot