Learning Silhouette with Lee Lanier

Boris FX Silhouette offers powerful tools for masking, rotoscoping, motion tracking, and paint fixing, which are important cornerstones of visual effects compositing. This course provides motion graphics and visual effects artists with a solid introduction to Silhouette, allowing them to quickly master its core tools, functions, and workflows. Instructor Lee Lanier demonstrates techniques such as drawing, editing, and animating masks; isolating a foreground with Power Matte; keying a green screen with zMatte; point and planar tracking; painting; image and time warping; and color grading. Each chapter contains step-by-step projects featuring high-quality example footage, helping you understand how to transition the techniques to real-world workflows.

01 – Boris FX Silhouette 02 – Overview of Silhouette 03 – How to use the exercise files 04 – Reloading missing footage 05 – The Silhouette interface 06 – Setting up a project 07 – Working with nodes 08 – Working with objects, layers, and mattes 09 – Optimizing, playing back, and rendering 10 – Masking 11 – Additional masking techniques 12 – Rotoscoping 13 – Isolating a foreground with shapes 14 – Keying a green screen with zMatte 15 – Adjusting alpha mattes and spill suppressing 16 – Using secondary mattes 17 – Point tracking 18 – Applying tracking data 19 – Connecting Composite nodes 20 – Tracking masks 21 – Planar tracking 22 – Introduction to the Paint node 23 – Additional paint techniques 24 – Animating properties and transforms 25 – Overview of image warping tools 26 – Time warping 27 – Color matching 28 – Adding film, video, and stylistic effects 29 – Next steps

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