Visual Effects and Rotoscoping

I  was browsing around the threads in Toolfarm when I stumbled upon a post that mentioned a free rotoscoping software called, Claxa.

The program “Claxa” is intended for tracking an object in a video footage, constructing the mask of the object, and subsequent extraction of the object. Tracking an object with the aim to extract it means precise detection of its boundaries on a pixel level. In this relation “Claxa” admits much more alive and natural movements of the mask, even more believable than manual construction of the mask using Bezier-spline in Adobe After Effects (AE), because the mask receives many more degrees of freedom, and it can reproduce the finest movements of the object, which are beyond the reach of human operator.

I can’t really give out my opinions with this software since we haven’t tried using it for our rotoscoping projects. For our rotoscoping tasks, we use AE and Mocha. However if you are in need of a rotoscoping software and the budget is a bit slim, claxa might be the next best thing for you. As I would say, the software will come next after the principle.

Know more about Claxa here.