FlowBox has all the industry standard rotoscoping features, allowing you to create shapes with bezier curves, points, tangents, and everything that you would expect to come with that. It also has some future-forward features, such as RotoSTROKE. Coined as “the smartest rotoscope on the market”, RotoSTROKE allows you to move and create shapes by drawing. Tangents will automatically follow the shape you are drawing. No longer will you need to create shapes point-by-point.

FlowBox’s snapping feature lets you to draw new guide shapes somewhere down the timeline, and then allows you to snap your roto-shape to the guide. This can be an amazing way to animate roto-shapes without the tedium of moving points around, essentially letting you animate with strokes.

What’s more, is that FlowBox supports rotoscoping with open splines. A must-have feature for working with intricate details such as hair. Instead of working with more points represented by a closed path, you can adjust the effect of a single stroke with a variable-width effect, similar to the one that is in Adobe Illustrator. Of course, you can animate with guide strokes, by using the snapping feature, making rotoscoping stray hairs in a shot much easier.

Halfway through rotoscoping something and you realize that you need to add points to accommodate some new features in the shot. You could add a new roto shape, or you can use Smart Ripple Edit, which can interpolate the new point’s animation based on the original shape’s animation.

BLowBox also is working on RotoTRACK. RotoGLUE offers a planar tracking and point tracking system within the application. You can even use tracking data from other software through import.

RotoPAINT lets you paint over a sequence with built-in vector point tools, recording strokes as you go. Because paint strokes are vector, you can modify them like any other roto shape.