
The company’s solution for this is to offer the plug-in as a cross-platform, cross-host, tool. The Silhouette Paint plug-in does not allow the export of this data the way the stand-alone package does. Manual tasks such as roto and paint are often outsourced in the post-production process. The missing features in the plugin include exporting of tracking and roto data. The Silhouette Paint plugin is, however, a lite version of the standalone Silhouette tool, so it is missing quite a few useful features, but it has the advantage of being inside your application, so your results are returned immediately to the timeline. As such it doesn’t slow down even after thousands of brush strokes. Nuke’s own built-in paint/roto node is vector-based, so it can get slow after a few thousand brush strokes. Fxguide test drove the Plugin inside the Foundry’s Nuke.

Artists can easily track and mask paint effects with built-in Mocha planar motion tracking. Silhouette Paint plugin combines many of these previously separate products into a powerful new plugin that allows artists to easily add hundreds of paint strokes without worrying about performance issues. In 2019, Boris FX acquired Academy Award-winning SilhouetteFX and Digital Film Tools for advanced feature film rotoscoping, painting, and effects.

In 2016, Boris FX acquired GenArts, the developer of Sapphire, one of the most popular VFX plugin packages. In 2014, Boris FX acquired Imagineer Systems, the Academy Award-winning developer of Mocha planar tracking software. The plugin’s depth in tracking makes this plugin very powerful (footage and project from )įounded in 1995, Boris FX is a developer of VFX, compositing, editing, and workflow tools. Its non-destructive Auto Paint stroke system delivers interactive pressure-sensitive artistic control, while remaining responsive at scale.

Silhouette Paint offers 32-bit high dynamic range paint tools for tasks such as matte painting, beauty work, touch-ups, rig removal, and more. Silhouette Paint support includes Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Autodesk Flame, Blackmagic Design Resolve / Fusion, and the Foundry’s Nuke.

The new Boris FX Silhouette Paint plugin is a cross-platform, cross-host product that offers Mocha-tracked non-destructive repeatable paint for the industry’s most popular VFX applications.
