Rotoscoping & Cleanup

Here is how the work lines up. Rotoscoping and cleanup feed the entire New York VFX pipeline — each composite shot delivered out of Framestore, The Mill NY, Method, MPC, DNEG, Brickyard and the Chelsea VFX houses starts with frame-accurate mattes and clean plates prepared by dedicated roto and paint departments. Our planning places projects with teams scaled to shot volume, whether that means a senior in-house team on a Marvel or HBO Hudson Yards feature, a specialty roto vendor handling overflow capacity for a streaming series. Succession, Mrs.

Here is what we have to work with. Maisel, Severance and the Apple TV+ and Netflix NY originals all carry roto counts in the thousands of shots — or a focused team for wire removal, marker cleanup and rig paint-out on a New York commercial shoot. We manage shot turnover from the offline edit, make sure plates arrive graded and conformed for roto, and structure review cycles through ftrack, Shotgrid or Frame.io so notes from VFX supervisors move fast between the post-corridor and the production base.

Here is the layout. The tech work runs across Silhouette for detailed shape rotoscoping, Nuke for in-context roto integrated with the comp pipeline, and Mocha Pro for planar-tracking-helped roto on rigid surfaces. Motion blur is matched to the source footage through specialty edge treatments and multi-frame techniques. Difficult elements — fine hair, fur, semi-transparent fabric, smoke interaction — are handled with core mattes carrying soft refinement edges, multi-channel keying help where green-screen exists, and detailed frame-by-frame hand work where it doesn't.

Here is how the work shapes up. Paint and cleanup work covers wire and rig removal on stunt and SFX shots, marker paint-out on motion-capture and tracking-heavy plates, sign and brand clearance for legal delivery, and reconstruction of background detail behind removed objects, all delivered as DPX or EXR sequences ready to hand to the compositing department. The work integrates with IATSE Local 700 (MPEG) post-prod crewing. Qualifying budgets pair the labour with the NYS Film Tax Credit 30-35% post-prod uplift, with our team managing the records alongside the studio schedule.