Stylistic choices when masking?

Douggie · Post by **Douggie** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:53 pm

I was watching Deshi's new AMV (Lets just be SUPER CUTE GIRLS!) and the question I had a long time ago popped up again: what's up with the outer glow (or those big fat strokes around the characters making them look like a cel-shaded 3D character) at the masked parts of the video? I'm wondering whether it's a stylistic choice or a way to "cover up" the edges (so the tracing doesn't have to be super-precise and it still looks pretty acceptable).

Because for me it just gives it away that there's masking at that moment and it distracts: when a character has glow/stroke and it doesn't seem to have any relevance to the AMV at all you just know in one instance it's a rotoscoped part. Well, at least when I do it I try to make it blend into the scene as much as possible.

So... anything relevant I'm missing in glowing/stroking characters?

Beowulf · Post by **Beowulf** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:56 pm

Turn your weaknesses into your strengths. If you suck at masking, make it REALLY obvious and call it a style.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:58 pm

i think it depends on what you are trying to do...
if you want it to look like an effect or if you just want it to look natural

I've done masking both ways and in the end it all depended on what I was trying to accomplish.

NS · Post by NS » Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:14 pm

Beowulf wrote:Turn your weaknesses into your strengths. If you suck at masking, make it REALLY obvious and call it a style.

x2

Niotex · Post by **Niotex** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:39 pm

Depends on what type of video your doing I guess. If your doing a light comedy video you can get away with rough cutouts with white bg mates. If its serious then its allot harder to get away with. So it varies from video to video imo.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:44 pm

NerdStrudel wrote:
Beowulf wrote:Turn your weaknesses into your strengths. If you suck at masking, make it REALLY obvious and call it a style.
x2

x3

Koopiskeva · Post by **Koopiskeva** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:23 pm

Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:28 pm

Beowulf wrote:Turn your weaknesses into your strengths. If you suck at masking, make it REALLY obvious and call it a style.

Good idea and if he gets really good at it... Maybe it counts as grunge style oO

and Nio said the rest.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:09 pm

If you feather those thick edges it looks kinda cool though.

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:16 pm

Koopiskeva wrote:

You have to suffer like the rest of us