Boris FX Silhouette - Standalone + Adobe/OFX Plugin - Node-Locked (Perpetual License)

Academy Award-Winning Paint, Roto & Compositing

The industry’s leading roto and paint tool is now packed with major features for compositing. Silhouette 2022 delivers 400+ nodes including premier plugins Sapphire, Mocha Pro, and Particle Illusion wrapped in one integrated node-based package. Silhouette has been integral to Hollywood’s biggest titles for over fifteen years and recently made its mark on Dune, Spiderman: No Way Home, Free Guy, and The Mandalorian. Designed by visual effects artists, Silhouette has been recognized with prestigious Academy and Emmy technical awards and is a member of the Netflix Production Technology Alliance.

WHAT’S NEW IN SILHOUETTE 2022

Packed with Effects Tools

Top Boris FX tools are now included in Silhouette.

Sapphire: Award-winning plugins with 270+ effect nodes and thousands of presets. Featuring the best lighting effects, lens flares, and creative image processing filters for VFX.

Mocha Pro: Now included! Featuring PowerMesh, Remove and Stabilize. New data ports and node actions connect the Mocha node to native nodes.

Particle Illusion: Create realistic particle simulations with 3D emitters, fluid dynamics, and a massive preset library. Add useful environmental elements such as snow, smoke, and fire — all within Silhouette.

More Filters: Select Continuum nodes with fast GPU processing. Including Magic Sharp, Beauty Studio, Light Leaks, Video Glitch, Film Glow, and new blur filters.

Boris FX Silhouette Features – Perpetual License

PROFESSIONAL ROTO TOOLS

Silhouette is the world’s most refined rotoscoping tool. Create sophisticated masks using B-Spline, Bézier, X-Spline, or Magnetic Freehand shapes. Easy-to-use tools such as variable per-point edge softening and magnetic reshaping assist in creating articulate animations in record time. Render mattes with realistic motion blur or export to industry-standard shape formats.

Advanced roto tools include:

• Highly-optimized interface, layer controls, and toolset
• Specialized shape editing tools include magnetic splines, point groups, weighted keyframes, brush-based reshape, split shapes, collapse, and distribute points
• Integrated point tracking, planar tracking, and Mocha planar tracking
• IK (Inverse Kinematics) to animate limbs and all manner of jointed creatures
• Stereoscopic 3D workflow
• Built for teams and collaboration with review/approval notes for quality control

AUTO PAINT FOR SPEED AND RELIABILITY

Silhouette’s 32-bit float raster-based paint and tracking system meets the demands of high-resolution, color-managed VFX pipelines. A unique AutoPaint recording system delivers the speed of raster paint with the repeatability of vector paint on tasks like matte painting, beauty work, rig removal, or just plain paint.

• Paint Tools: Pressure-sensitive customizable brushes and presets. Includes Clone, Grain, Repair, Drag, and more.
• Non-Destructive Paint: Efficient layer system for high resolution film/video paint.
• Channels & Detail Separation: Paint on individual RGBA channels or work on separated detail and color views for advanced control.
• Sophisticated Cloning: Advanced offset and warping, onion skin, and display views enable a streamlined workflow for aligning, patching, and removing unwanted pixels.
• Powerful Tracking Options: Native point, planar tracking, and Mocha options.
• New Mocha Pro and PowerMeshWarp nodes enable warped surface paint workflows.

NODE-BASED COMPOSITING & IMAGE PROCESSING

Silhouette’s core is a powerful node-based effects tree that delivers film-grade results. View and edit any combination of nodes for complex compositing, matte manipulation, keying, color correction, grain management, look development, morphing, warping, and much more.

Silhouette 2022 includes 400+ specialty nodes organized into Color, Composite, Diffusion, Filter, Film Lab, Image, Key, Light, Sapphire, Silhouette, Special Effects, Time, Tints, Transform, Warp, and OFX groups.

Highlights:

• Gestural node-based compositing
• Improved tracking and spline data ports and node actions
• Updated OCIO v2 color managed workflow
• Customizable workspaces for dual monitor set-ups
• Exacting color grading with 4-way color wheels and presets
• Proprietary matte generation
• Edge tools to color correct or blur the composite’s edge
• Matte manipulation using shrink, grow, blur, and wrap functions
• Now includes Sapphire effects (270 nodes) and Particle Illusion (1700+ emitters).

MULTI-HOST PLUGIN

Now including the Mocha Pro node! The fully-featured Silhouette interface for roto, paint, and compositing can also be launched as a plugin from standard VFX applications: After Effects, Premiere Pro, Nuke, Fusion, Resolve, Flame, and VEGAS Pro.

The Silhouette multi-host plugin is included with all Silhouette standalone application licenses or can be purchased as a separate option.

Not sure which option is best for you? View our compare chart.

WARPING & MORPHING

Silhouette’s fully-featured shape based warp and morph tools provide the highest level of creative control and render quality for digital retouching, image deformations, and even talking animals. Create invisible touch-ups, subtle facial exaggerations, or dramatic transitions with either shape or pin options.

With a rich history on some of the world’s most famous music videos and effects shots, unique “shape-to-shape morphing transitions” can be timed per layer with interactive previews for fast flexibility. Intro to Morphing Video

Pin Warp is perfect for beauty work, allowing user-defined image areas using pins while leaving other areas untouched. Adjustments can range from subtle nip and tucks to something more obvious like repositioning an arm or leg. Watch Now