Too Many Rotoshapes, Is It Possible?

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Apart from the fact that the node workspace can get a bit cluttered, is there in fact anything negative in having _a lot_ of rotoshapes?

I find that the more I break down a moving object (mostly people) into seperate rotoshapes the better my results get and I seem to work faster as well (esepcially since I don't have to redo shapes as often). For example, I do seperate shapes for the inside and outside of the thighs, calves, arms a.s.o. Sometimes I've even found it useful to do seperate masks for different fingers and sometimes even the different parts of fingers.

Is there anything wrong with this way of working?

Thanks in advance

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QUOTE(nidhogge242 @ 06/28/06, 08:11 PM) [snapback]241060[/snapback]
Is there anything wrong with this way of working?

i'm by no means an experienced roto artist, but my understanding that this is very much recommended.
no idea about the practical limit of how many shapes shake can handle, but i guess with reasonably modern hardware it should be enough for a few fingers

++ christoph ++

[deke-kincaid]

This is the normal way of doing things. You should never work with one big shape for an object. That just causes lots of wiggle and bouncing roto and too many managable points.

Quick note though, Shake likes to corrupt rotoshape and quickpaint nodes when you have too many shapes and keyframes in a single node. So don't put too many single shapes in a node. I usually keep it to under 10-20. I had a corrupt node when I got up to 50 shapes. That was shake 3, but I'm not interested in running into that problem again because it is a pain in the ass to fix.

[user_deleted]

Thanks a bunch.

[user_deleted]

I actually find rotoshapes to be very weird and inconsistent. Not a few times in the last couple weeks I've found that shapes lose some of their points, completely randomly. And today, I have a rotoshape with two shapes, one of which displays and renders fine within Shake but when sending it to render either as a fileout or as a flipbook, the shape has flopped almost 180 degrees around. Totally weird. Am I the only one that has run into these weird bugs?

j

[deke-kincaid]

what version? what os? what video card?

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QUOTE(beaker @ 07/05/06, 12:48 AM) [snapback]241559[/snapback]
what version? what os? what video card?

4.0 -- haven't noticed it in 4.1 yet but only been using for a day or so. Macbook pro, the ATI Radeon X1600. You think it might be a display thing? I should have actually checked the script on one of the linux boxes here in the office before fixing it to see if it was machine specific or not...

j