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Silhouette FX
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Silhouette FX, LLC was formed by the union of well known software designers Paul Miller and Perry Kivolowitz from Profound Effects, Inc. and visual effects industry veterans Peter Moyer and Marco Paolini from Digital Film Tools and Mark Coleran of Layerlab Limited.
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Products Include
- Silhouette Roto - Silhouette Roto allows you to quickly create sophisticated animated mattes using Rational B-spline, NURB or Bezier shapes. Note, the plug-in version has been discontinued. The standalone is now the official product.
- Silhouette Paint - An innovative high dynamic range 2D paint system that works with Silhouette Roto. Note, the plug-in version has been discontinued. The standalone is now the official product.
- Silhouette Shape Import/Export Plug-in for After Effects
Principals
- Perry Kivolowitz received a 1996 Scientific and Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the invention of shape-based warping and morphing found in Elastic Reality. Over the past 20 years, Perry has been involved with many ground-breaking products in the digital special effects industry.
- Paul Miller wrote the first version of Elastic Reality, a product that stood the effects world on its end. Paul has written dozens of digital effects plug-ins, available from many companies, used widely across the industry.
- Marco Paolini has won numerous TELLY and Addy awards in his career as an editor and visual effects artist. While at Digital FilmWorks, his work has appeared in many feature films including "Anna and the King," "Red Planet," "Exit Wounds," "Moulin Rouge," "Collateral Damage," "The Last Samurai," "The Ring 2," and "The Terminal."
- Peter W. Moyer is a three-time Emmy award winner, with numerous television credits, including "Star Trek: The Next Generation." As president and owner of Digital FilmWorks, a Los Angeles-based visual effects company, Peter has supervised the digital visual effects on dozens of feature films, including "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Men of Honor," "Behind Enemy Lines," "The One," and "The Italian Job."
- Mark Coleran - is a motion graphics and visual effects designer for film and television. His clients have been as diverse as the BBC to The Cartoon Network through to the creation of computer interface graphics for feature films such as "The World Is Not Enough," "The Bourne Identity," "Blade 2" and Aliens versus Predator. He is also the founder of the online, commercial motion graphics resource Layerlab.
Tutorial
Tracking the Clone Source
1. Using a Roto node, create a tracker and apply it to a layer.
2. Select the Paint node in the Node List.
3. Choose the Clone Brush in the Toolbar.
4. Select the tracked Roto node layer in the Paint > Tracking menu.
5. Make sure that the Clone > Match Move control is activated. It is normally on by default. Selecting a layer in the Paint > Tracking menu and activating Clone > Match Move allow you to apply the tracking or transformation data of a Roto node layer to the Clone source.
6. If you would like to Stabilize instead, click the Stabilize icon at the top of the Viewer.
