Here's an example of this effect I produced for a client a few years ago, using my own recipe of effects, pre-renders, and a couple other tricks. If these look good enough for your purposes, and your source footage is suitable, I can do them for you at a very reasonable price.
Brian Hi Sam,
You can definitely achieve acceptable quality roto-paint style animations doing frames on 2's or even 3's. Which will reduce the overall amount of work.
If you are shooting yourself, minimizing the camera motion and actors rotation, will allow you to get away with a lot less roto, especially if you use mocha to track the paint shapes.
I am sure that there are many talented artists that would be willing to work with you to find an acceptable quality that fits your budget.
good luck,
Ross
On 3 October 2012 16:31, Jim Tierney <jim@digitalanarchy.com> wrote:
Hi Sam, Since I referred you over here, I’ll chime in on this. No one worthwhile is going to do work on spec. What you should do, is hire someone to see if the look you want is feasible within your budget constraints. There are many folks here that can show you excellent examples of roto/masking work. They can do some render tests over a day or so, using a few approaches, creating different looks to see if what you’re after is possible. It’s not fair to ask for work examples when you don’t even know if what you want is possible. The default settings for ToonIt are extremely good for what it does. If that look is not acceptable then it’s unlikely a strictly post-process approach will work for you. So you’re looking at some combination of post processing and manual tweaking. Fwiw… If you know you want to cartoon video before shooting, you can set up your lighting, use a greenscreen, and use makeup during the shoot to get better results from post-process effects like ToonIt. I realize that’s not the case here, but for future reference it’s good to know. Even then, to get anything close to the Charles Schwab commercials it’ll require manual work. Cheers, Jim --------------- Jim Tierney President Digital Anarchy From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of Sam Carter
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The alternative, contracting out the work without an audition, can lead to only to find an unacceptable end result?
I’ve just done that with another contractor and have nothing to move forward with. It seems reasonable that submitting an incomplete fraction, (part of), which results in an unusable clip of one video would be acceptable as an audition to get the job. Sam
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Subject: Re: [AE] New to the list - question on rotoscoping This is my first post on this list. If posting contract work is not appropriate, please ignore or delete this post and my apologies in advance.
its perfectly fine to post about offering work.
am looking for a contractor willing to audition for the job of rotoscoping these videos to a satisfactory quality. For the audition, I will provide a single 15-second video. I ask that part of the video be rotoscoped and returned so the quality can be evaluated before contracting the job.
IMNHO this is pretty unacceptable. asking people to do work for free as an "audition" ? hmmm... get 15 or 20 responses, send each person a different clip. ...asking people to work for spec is wrong. good roto can take time depending on the material and asking for that time for free is wrong in the guise of an "audition".
there are plenty of qualified people on this list who can do a great job. you are dealing with some of the best in the biz. if you want to see samples of previous work ? sure. to do the work ? no.
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