New Toolset from Boris FX: Advanced Options for Paint, Rotoscoping, and Motion Tracking
In the realm of visual effects (VFX) and post-production, Boris FX has announced exciting updates to its suite of tools, with a particular focus on Silhouette 2023 and Mocha Pro 2023. These new features are designed to streamline complex VFX workflows, making them more efficient and creative for artists working on VFX-heavy films and projects.
Mocha Pro 2023: Advanced Planar Tracking and Rotoscoping
Mocha Pro 2023 offers significant enhancements to its industry-leading planar tracking and rotoscoping tools. These updates are essential for precise tracking and masking in complex shot compositions, making it easier for artists to handle intricate VFX tasks. Although specific details on Mocha Pro 2023 are not abundant, its reputation for advanced planar tracking technology makes it a valuable tool for VFX professionals.
Silhouette 2023: Improved Paint, Roto, and Compositing Workflows
While the details on Silhouette 2023 are less explicit, the software is known for its advanced rotoscoping, paint, and keying tools. Given its integration with Mocha Pro, updates are expected to improve the integration with Mocha's planar tracking and advanced paint and roto workflows, which are crucial for VFX-heavy compositing.
Continuum 2023: Major Upgrades for Particle Effects and Atmospheric Glow
The broader Boris FX 2023 release for VFX includes significant upgrades like enhanced Particle Illusion with 3D model support, text/mask emitters, UI improvements, and better performance for 3D particle animations. New and improved atmospheric effects and transitions, such as BCC+ Atmospheric Glow and Swish Prism, add creative layering options in compositing.
Additional Features and Benefits
- The new expression system in Silhouette 2023 allows artists to create complex animations and link parameters without writing code.
- The Insert Module in Silhouette and/or Mocha Pro includes an improved ROI (region of interest) crop that makes it easier to manipulate PowerMesh and Grid warps on organic moving objects.
- The Primatte node in Silhouette 2023 gives users access to Academy Award-nominated chromakeying technology.
- The Denoiser ML node in Silhouette 2023 uses machine learning techniques to eliminate unwanted noise from images.
- The Stability node in Silhouette 2023 integrates Stable Diffusion's deep-learning text-to-image model for digital painting.
- The UltraGrain node from Boris FX Sapphire accurately applies photorealistic film grain and camera noise to images.
- The Regrain node in Silhouette 2023 regenerates and randomizes grain from the source image to add it back into a degrained composite.
Pricing and Availability
Boris FX has released new versions of Silhouette and Mocha Pro, offering innovative features for VFX-heavy films and projects. These tools are available as standalone applications and/or plugins, with various subscription, upgrade, and permanent license options.
For a limited time, artists looking to purchase Silhouette and/or Mocha Pro can save 25% on all available options until Friday, April 28th, at midnight PDT.
Compatibility
Mocha Pro supports host applications including Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Foundry Nuke, Blackmagic Fusion, VEGAS Pro, and HitFilm Pro.
Media Contact
For media inquiries, please contact Jessie Electa Petrov at jessiep@pur socials.com and 617-451-9900.
Branding Toolkits and Removing Unwanted Objects
Downloadable branding toolkits are available for Silhouette and Mocha Pro. The Remove Module in Silhouette and/or Mocha Pro creates a single layer to get rid of unwanted moving objects on locked or static shots without tracking them.
New Releases in the Boris FX Ecosystem
The 2023 release includes Boris FX sister products Mocha Pro 2023, Particle Illusion 2023, Sapphire 2023.5, and select Continuum 2023 nodes.
In summary, the key new features relevant for VFX-heavy projects in Boris FX 2023 releases focus on advanced planar tracking and rotoscoping enhancements in Mocha Pro, presumed improvements in paint, roto, and compositing workflows in Silhouette, and major updates to particle effects, atmospheric glow, and transitions in Continuum 2023. These combined enable artists to handle complex VFX shots more efficiently and creatively.
Silhouette 2023's new expression system enables artists to create complex animations and link parameters without writing code.
The Mocha Pro 2023's advanced planar tracking technology is expected to improve the integration with Silhouette's paint, roto, and compositing workflows for VFX-heavy projects.
