VISUAL EFFECTS & COMPOSITING

The industry’s leading rotoscoping and paint tool is packed with major compositing features. Silhouette delivers 400+ VFX nodes, including Boris FX Sapphire, Mocha Pro, and Particle Illusion.

Top artists have relied on Silhouette on Hollywood’s biggest titles for over fifteen years. The Academy and Emmy Award-winning toolkit created by visual effect artists recently made its mark on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Top Gun: Maverick, Dune, and The Mandalorian.

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WHAT'S NEW

Silhouette 2023

AI / ML: Generative AI and machine learning tools debut in the Stability and Denoiser ML nodes.
Grain Management Tools: Denoiser ML, Regrain, and Sapphire UltraGrain nodes deliver cinematic realism to projects.
Primatte: The Academy Award-nominated technology makes it easy to key and composite green/blue screen footage with a GPU-accelerated algorithm and 3D Preview display.
Expressions: Create complex animations & link parameters, perform math functions, and use variables without writing code.
Nodes: Atmospheric Glow and Curves.
Presets: Beauty Studio, Camera Shake, Chromatic Aberration, Day for Night, Develop, Film Glow, Grunge, Light Leaks, Prism, Rays, Smear Blur, Sunset, Two Strip, Vignette, and X-Ray.

Stable Diffusion

Stable Diffusion is a pioneering, deep-learning text-to-image model primarily used to generate detailed images based on text descriptions.

The new Stability node integrates Stable Diffusion models directly in Silhouette. Inpaint, outpaint, or generate images from scratch using text prompts!

Learn to composite with Stability AI images in Silhouette 2023.

Packed with Effects Tools

New 2023 versions of Sapphire, Mocha Pro, Particle Illusion, and select Continuum nodes.

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

Mocha Pro: Featuring PowerMesh, Remove, and Stabilize. Data ports and node actions integrate Mocha Pro with other 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.

Continuum: Atmospheric Glow, Magic Sharp, Beauty Studio, Light Leaks, Video Glitch, Film Glow, and many blur filters.

Grain Management Nodes

Three powerful nodes join Silhouette’s expanded grain management tools.

Denoiser ML: Employs sophisticated deep learning techniques to eliminate unwanted noise from images while preserving critical features.
Regrain: Based on DasGrain by Fabian Holtz, Regrain samples the source image’s grain, regenerates and randomizes it for the purpose of adding it back to a degrained composite.
Sapphire UltraGrain: Adds simulated film and digital camera grain to the image.

Primatte

Make quick work out of challenging blue/green screen footage.

Primatte keys out and replaces blue/green screens with transparency to seamlessly replace backgrounds. The GPU-accelerated algorithm uses three multi-faceted polyhedrons floating in RGB color space to isolate color regions. A 3D Preview display aids in the visualization of the keyed value.

Learn to key with Primatte in Silhouette 2023

FEATURES

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 including new Cryptomatte support.

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
Cryptomatte support
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 2023 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, and Flame.

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

Keying & Matte Generation

The powerful Primatte, zMatte, and Power Matte nodes use proprietary matte extraction techniques that handle the most difficult keying and matting challenges, including shots with fine hair detail, smoke, or reflections.

Primatte, the industry standard for keying, uses a GPU accelerated algorithm based on three multi-faceted polyhedrons which can be visualized using the 3D Preview display.

zMatte keying features multiple matte creation, light wrapping, edge correction, spill suppression, and matte manipulation. Watch Now

Power Matte’s unique interactive workflow enhances the matte creation process on normally non-keyable shots with foreground and background shape selectors that generate incredibly realistic and accurate results on semi-transparent objects. Watch Now

Powerful Tracking Options

The industry’s most powerful tracking drives Silhouette’s animation system and can be applied to speed up paint, roto, warp, and stabilization tasks. Choose from point tracking, native planar tracker, or the award-winning Mocha Pro node, now included in Silhouette 2023.

New surface tool, data ports, and node actions bring a seamless workflow between Mocha and Silhouette nodes.

Pre-processing filters can increase tracker accuracy for problematic images. Choose Blur, Sharpen, Contrast, Gamma, De-Noise, or Remove Flicker. Post-processing filters can be applied to tracking data, including Average, Smooth, and Merge.

Sapphire, Particle Illusion & Continuum

Sapphire: Best-in-class effects include UltraGlow, UltraZap, Lens Flare, Shake, and more. Watch
Particle Illusion: Add 2D/3D animated particle simulations like snow, smoke, and fire with fluid dynamics. Learn more
Select nodes from Continuum included: Atmospheric Glow, Magic Sharp, Beauty Studio, Light Leaks, Video Glitch, Film Glow, and many blur filters.

Combine new plugins for compositing and effects.

Mocha Pro Node

Award-winning Mocha Pro planar tracking is now a node included with Silhouette.

Features:

GPU-accelerated object removal
PowerMesh warped surface tracking
Insert compositing with AdjustTrack
Award-winning stereo 360/VR tools

Learn more about Mocha Pro

Looking for bundle options? Silhouette + Mocha Pro are also available as a standalone application bundle for savings.

Single host Multi-host + Standalone

Monthly Subscription

$150/month * Maximum flexibility $100/month * Cancel at anytime

Supports one of the following hosts on a single workstation: Adobe, Nuke, Resolve, Flame and VEGAS Pro Includes plugin and standalone application

Always up to date with automatic monthly billing Always up to date with automatic monthly billing

Never miss an upgrade with a subscription Never miss an upgrade with a subscription

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Annual Subscription

$67/month * Lowest monthly cost $40/month * Lowest monthly cost

Supports one of the following hosts on a single workstation: Adobe, Nuke, Resolve, Flame and VEGAS Pro Includes plugin and standalone application

Automatic annual billing at $495 Automatic annual billing at $895

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Perpetual License

$1,995 $1,095

Supports one of the following hosts on a single workstation: Adobe, Nuke, Resolve, Flame and VEGAS Pro Includes plugin and standalone application

Includes 12 months of free upgrades and support Includes 12 months of free upgrades and support

Single upfront payment Single upfront payment

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TECH/SPECS

Product: Release Number:	Silhouette 2023
Requirements:	macOS: 10.15 or higher* Windows: Windows 10 & 11 Linux: Linux distributions that conform to the CY2021 VFX Reference Platform Platform as specified at www.vfxplatform.com *macOS 12.0 or higher for best performance when using machine learning nodes
Hardware:	Recommended Hardware: Processor: Intel or AMD processor Memory: 8GB or more Disk: High-speed disk array or SSD storage. 1GB of available disk space for caching and temporary files Graphics Card: NVIDIA GTX 460 or better AMD Radeon 57xx series or better OpenGL 2.1 capable graphics card OpenCL 1.1 capable graphic card 4GB of graphics memory
Licensing options:	Nodelocked or floating license.
Architecture:	Resolution independent Region of interest for enhanced performance OpenColorIO v2 color management GPU and OpenGL® accelerated Multi-processor support Mac M1 silicon support
Plugin Support:	Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro Foundry Nuke Blackmagic Resolve and Fusion (support for MacOS & Windows only) Autodesk Flame Note: The Silhouette plugin option includes the Mocha Pro node, but does not include Particle Illusion or Sapphire effects.

COMPARE

COMPARE MOCHA PRO & SILHOUETTE

	Mocha Pro Plugin	Mocha Pro Application	Silhouette Plugin	Silhouette Application
Standalone application for macOS/Win/Linux
Mocha Pro planar tracking interface
Recommended for video editors (Media Composer, Premiere Pro, VEGAS Pro)
Node-based compositing with color correction and image processing filters
Advanced paint tools with AutoPaint and detail separation
Includes Mocha node for Silhouette
Includes Sapphire effect nodes for Silhouette
Includes Particle Illusion node for Silhouette				(macOS & Win only)

Bundle for Savings! We now offer Mocha Pro + Silhouette together. Launch the Mocha Pro node inside Silhouette as a standard feature OR buy the bundle to get both standalone applications!

VERSIONS

Began development as a roto-only tool in 2004

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Silhouette v1.0 - Feb 2005: Silhouette ships with b-splines, bezier splines and point tracking
Silhouette v2.0 - Jul 2005: Added raster paint, layers, match-move, stabilization
Silhouette v3.0 – Aug 2008: Added fully stereoscopic workflow, planar tracking, x-splines, comprehensive keyer
Silhouette v4.0 - Mar 2010: Added Power Matte semi-automatic matting system, rewrote planar tracker, open shapes, scripting, commandline rendering, dual-clone painting.
Silhouette v4.1 - Feb 2011: Planar Tracker rewritten again to be more robust with less user interaction
Silhouette v4.5 - Jan 2012: Added OpenColorIO color management
Silhouette v5.0 - Jan 2013: 2D->3D conversion tools, inverse kinematics for roto, shape-based warping and morphing, raster paint history and auto-paint features with match-move
Silhouette v5.2 - Jul 2014: Crop node, EXR 2 support, Automation Paint enhancements.
Silhouette v6.0 - Nov 2016: Node based GPU accelerated compositor with total of 136 different nodes--all stereo enabled.
Silhouette v7.0 - Jun 2018: Sequence Editing, Planar Tracker enhanced to track textureless objects, roto and paint enhancements.
Silhouette v7.5 – April 2019: GPU accelerated Mocha, high-resolution image optimization for Paint, compact slider user interface.
Silhouette 2020 - September 2019: Magnetic splines, edge snapping, Paint detail separation workflow, group and part tracking.
Silhouette 2020.5 - April 2020: Paint plug-in, Node Favorites, Hold Node, Onion Skin and Python 3 support.
Silhouette 2021 - May 2021: Fully featured plugin release, Lens Correction node, Review & Approval Notes, improved shape editing and keyframe tools, Gstreamer media engine and more
Silhouette 2022 - June 2022: Sapphire, Mocha Pro, Particle Illusion and select Continuum BCC+ filters included; Inpaint, Power Mesh, Point control parameter tracking, Cryptomatte.