Silhouette features the world’s most refined tools for rotoscoping teams. Create sophisticated masks using B-Spline, Bézier, X-Spline, or Magnetic Freehand shapes. Intelligent design and easy-to-use tools such as variable per-point edge softening and new brush-based magnetic reshaping assist in creating articulate animations. Render mattes with realistic motion blur or export to industry-standard shape formats.

Advanced roto tools include:

• Highly-optimized interface, layer controls, and toolset
• Magnetic spline and edge-snapping with new Brush Reshape for fast shape editing
• IK (Inverse Kinematics) to animate limbs and all manner of jointed creatures
• Integrated point tracking, planar tracking, and Mocha planar tracking
• Stereoscopic 3D workflow
• Move, scale, rotate, shear, and corner pin shapes and groups of shapes
• New in 2021: Major advancements for roto efficiency include point groups, weighted keyframes, brush-based reshape, split shapes, collapse, and distribute points
• New in 2021: Review/approval notes for collaboration

World class paint tools. Silhouette’s Paint is the industry's first 32-bit float raster-based paint and tracking system to bring the high performance, multi-layer, color managed workflow to a plugin. Designed to handle the demands of feature film and 4K television production. Whether it’s image restoration, dust busting, matte painting, beauty work, rig removal, or just plain paint, Silhouette’s unique Auto Paint recording system delivers the speed of raster paint with the repeatability of vector paint.

• Paint Tools: Pressure sensitive customizable brushes. Includes Clone, Grain, Repair, Drag, and more.
• Fast & Non-Destructive Paint: Highly efficient layer system for large resolution film/video paint. Auto Paint recording system delivers the speed of a raster-based paint system with the flexibility of vector paint.
• Powerful Motion Tracking: Features multiple tracking options including integrated Mocha for rock solid planar tracking.
• Channels & Detail Separation: Paint on individual RGBA channels or choose to work on separated detail and color views for advanced control.
• Sophisticated Cloning: Advanced offset and warping, onion skin, and display views enable a streamlined workflow for aligning, patching, and removing unwanted pixels.
• Powerful Tracking Options: Native point, planar tracking, and integrated Mocha tracking.
• New in 2021: Lens correction node allows for an undistorted VFX workflow.
• New in 2021: Clone source masking and improved color picker.

Silhouette's core is a feature rich node-based effects tree that delivers film-grade results. View and edit any combination of nodes for complex compositing, matte manipulation, keying, color correction, grain management, look development, morphing, warping, and much more.

Silhouette 2021 features 154 speciality nodes organized into Color, Composite, Diffusion, Filter, Film Lab, Image, Key, Light, Silhouette, Special Effects, Time, Tints, Transform, Warp, Sapphire, and OFX groups. Silhouette also supports OFX plugins including Mocha Pro, Sapphire, Neat Video, and RE:Vision Effects products.

Features:

• Gestural node-based compositing
• OCIO color managed workflow
• Multiple roto and paint nodes
• Exacting color grading
• Proprietary matte generation
• Edge tools to color correct or blur the composite's edge
• Matte manipulation using shrink, grow, blur, and wrap functions
• Visual presets for most nodes

Plugin: Silhouette 2021 brings the full feature set as a multi-host plugin (formerly limited to just paint tools) supporting: After Effects, Premiere Pro and OFX Hosts including NUKE, Resolve, Fusion, Flame, and more. Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux with floating license options for enterprise.