Re: Newbie Question: Light Saber Rotoscoping

Didnt he mentioned it in one part of the tut?

You have to draw a mask around the head:

Take the pen tool, make sure your saber layer (if multiple select only one)

draw a mask around the head or the object.

set the mask to subtract by hitting "M" twice and choos Add and make it to subtract.

Now without changing a frame it those first steps set a keyframe for the mask shape and move then to the next frame and "reshape"
the mask so it will stay on the head! (tip:sometimes you can skip 1 or 2 frames, depends on your shot)

additionally you can feather the mask a bit!

(BTW: of course you can cover the whole saber with the mask)
(multiple layers: copy the mask and paste it to the other layers!)