Rotoscoping: Techniques and Tools for the Aspiring Artist

A very informative book for anyone wishing to learn or improve their Roto Art skills for the visual effects industry. Covers the key software that you could use (although it doesn't look at using Nuke for this, it does cover Silluette, After Effects and Mocha), and covers the processes and best practice for how to Roto effectively for the best use of your time. Easy to read, and he also has a sense of humour so it won't be sat on your shelf if you genuinely want to learn this skill. Highly recommend for practitioners or people wanting the entry level job for compositing today.

Really helpful book. But, do not buy the eBook, the pictures have a really bad quality and most of them end up being pretty useless as you cannot identify the edges of the shapes in the given examples.

I bought this book to help prepare me for a training course and the vfx industry. Its fantastic! I will keep this as my roto bible! I also met Benjamin Bratt who is a bit nuts but a fantastic guy who loves roto and is damn good at it.

Great book, reading it while doing roto, helps a lot!

A practicle look at Rotoscoping. This is an essential skill in any VFX pipeline and its unfortunaely time consuming. This teaches principles that improve your skill and save time.

Really good book!

Great book.. all the basics. Gives a good foundation of the techniques of rotoscoping. Have loaned this book to lots of people as a starting point.

really well structured. easy reading. roto as it should be done.