rotoscoping + motion graphics / animation advice
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- evilpeacock1
I'd add that one can do a super fast-and-cheap "good enough" roto good enough for social media in a few minutes in After Effects if you have a basic understanding of the app.
Tools are that good these days, however no two rotoscope projects are ever alike and even with what we have to work with nowadays wildcards per-project are a thing; If there's lots of hair, motion blur, background noise, low-quality video source, etc. then the scope changes quickly. That's why anyone doing this work should ask to see a sample of the source footage first so they'll know what they're getting into.
Lastly this is only a few seconds, so you don't need to get too fussy because it'll fly by before anyone notices some of the hair is off, etc. I've even done super short but complex roto-ing in Photoshop via an image sequence run through PS's "select subject" using a recorded action.