rotoscope a depth matte with after effects camera tracker

This is a pretty cool tutorial from Jorrit Schulte for After Effects using The Foundry’s Camera Tracker Plugin to create a 3D depth matte from real shot footage and 3D layers to create a basic 3D model and scene… nifty!

In this tutorial, we’re going to look at creating a 3D depth matte from Real footage. We’ll matchmove the footage with The Foundry’s plug-in CameraTracker, and create 3D layers that match the Footage to get a “3D model” of the scene. Then you will learn what you can do with this depth matte after you create it; create realistic fog, fake DOF and a rotoscoped matte.