If you've ever spent hours manually painting mattes frame-by-frame in Blender's
compositor, you already know rotoscoping is one of the most tedious parts of VFX
work. AI Roto, a new Blender addon, is built to kill that grind.
The Problem
Rotoscoping — isolating a subject from its background across a video sequence —
is essential for compositing, but doing it by hand means tracking edges frame by
frame. For a 10-second clip at 24fps, that's 240 frames of manual mask work.
Most artists either pay for expensive standalone roto software or eat the time cost.
What AI Roto Does
AI Roto works entirely offline inside Blender and automatically generates and
tracks masks for your subject across an image sequence. No cloud processing,
no subscription pinging a server — it runs locally.
Core features:
- Subject selection — click your subject once instead of tracing it
- Foreground/background points — left-click adds positive points, right-click adds negative points, so you can refine exactly what gets included or excluded
- Forward pass — automatically propagates your selection across the entire sequence, generating masks frame-by-frame without manual redrawing
- Layer support — create multiple independent masks within a single sequence, each with its own compositor roto node
- Native compositor integration — outputs directly into Blender's compositor nodes, so it slots into your existing pipeline instead of forcing a new workflow
How to Use It
- Install via Preferences > Add-ons > Install from Disk
- Load your image sequence in the Image Editor
- Add the same sequence in the Compositor
- In the Image Editor, open the AI Roto panel
- Select your subject and hit Forward Pass
- Use Place Roto Points to drop positive/negative points for precision
- Each layer generates its own roto node — pull it into your comp
Who This Is For
- VFX artists doing green-screen-free compositing
- Motion designers who need clean subject isolation fast
- Indie animators and solo creators without a roto team
- Anyone currently outsourcing roto work or eating hours doing it by hand
Get It
AI Roto is $14.99 on Gumroad: https://fayazmodz.gumroad.com/l/ai-roto
If rotoscoping is the part of your pipeline you dread most, this is built to
remove it.
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