Rotoscoping & Cleanup

Rotoscoping and cleanup at the volume Chinese productions ship — hundreds to thousands of shots on Wandering Earth, Creation of the Gods Trilogy, Three-Body Problem and the Detective Chinatown franchise — has built one of Asia's deepest roto and prep benches. Our coordination routes work to teams at Base FX, More VFX, MacroGraph, Bottleship VFX and the dedicated prep houses servicing Beijing's post corridor, with capacity scaled to shot count and turnaround.

Here is how this works in practice. Chinese roto rates remain competitive with Brazil and India while delivering on senior-supervisor pipelines tuned to international quality standards through years of Hollywood collaboration on Pacific Rim, Game of Thrones, Pan and Independence Day: Resurgence. Frame-by-frame masking handles complex character work, fine hair and fur, motion-blur edges and semi-transparent elements. The briefs that come standard on Chinese fantasy and mythological features, where flying-fairy wire removal, sword-fight rig erasure and CGI-creature integration drive a substantial share of prep shot volume.

Our teams work in Silhouette, Nuke and Mocha Pro depending on shot type, with Silhouette carrying detailed shape work, Nuke handling roto integrated with downstream compositing, and Mocha Pro driving planar-tracked roto on architectural and prop cleanup. Wire and rig removal, marker patches, lens-flare cleanup and unwanted-object paint work are handled through patch-and-clone techniques with frame-by-frame manual refinement for the shots where automated approaches break down. Quality control runs through layered review — internal lead pass, supervisor pass, then producer review through Shotgrid or ftrack.

The picture on the ground is more specific. With proxies served inside China where the production pipeline keeps assets on domestic infrastructure to manage cross-border data movement under the Cybersecurity Law, Data Security Law and PIPL. Turnaround scales by team size on the Chinese side, with rush capacity available through Foxrenderfarm and Renderpool Beijing render partners and overnight shifts coordinated against US and European review windows so feedback cycles stay tight across time zones.