Rotoscoping & Cleanup

Here is how this works in practice. Rotoscoping and cleanup form the invisible foundation under almost every Peruvian VFX delivery. Our coordination places this frame-by-frame work with the roto departments embedded inside the Lima post cluster — Cinesphere VFX, Tondero VFX, Audiovisual Project Perú and La Mecha Post all run dedicated roto pools scaled to shot volume, supplemented by freelance experts who came up through the comedy-driven Asu Mare cycles, Wiñaypacha-era Andean drama, and the Llosa magical-realist features that defined Peruvian VFX expectations over the last decade.

Here is the short of it. The work covers character mattes for green-screen extraction, wire and rig removal on action and stunt sequences, marker cleanup on tracking plates, and the detailed paint work that erases production artifacts from finished frames — boom mics drifting into frame on cramped Cusco interiors, crew reflections in Sacred Valley glass, current signage in colonial Lima backstreets, and the GPS markers that DGAC drone protocols need visible during flight. Shot volume scales from a handful of cleanup passes on a contained drama through to several hundred roto shots on an effects-heavy feature. We set up turnover and review against the offline edit on Frame.io or Shotgrid.

Here is the breakdown. Pipelines run Silhouette for detailed shape work, Nuke for direct integration with downstream compositing, and Mocha Pro for planar-tracking-helped roto where geometry and camera moves support it — tool selection is per-shot, with the most challenging hair, fur, motion-blur and semi-transparent elements handled through layered core-matte plus soft-edge techniques and frame-by-frame hand work.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. We match motion-blur direction and intensity to the source photography so roto edges stay invisible in the final composite. Edge treatments are calibrated for the lens traits and grain structure of the rental-house glass Peruvian productions typically run — ARRI Alexa Mini, Sony Venice and RED Komodo packages from the Lima rental community. Cleanup work for Ministerio de Cultura heritage-site shoots respects the INC protocols for digital alteration of UNESCO-listed monuments, with our team setting up clearance records where it applies. Final delivery hands clean plates downstream as EXR or DPX sequences ready for the compositing pass, with detailed shot notes covering any edge cases worth flagging for the supervisor.