Rotoscoping & Cleanup

Here is how this works in practice. We set up rotoscoping, wire-removal, and plate-cleanup engagements across Animais (Lisbon animation studio), Animanostra, Bando à Parte (Coimbra), Sardinha em Lata, and the VFX departments of LXmedia Studios Lisbon, Tobis Portuguesa (operating since 1932), and Caleidoscópio. Pipelines run Foundry Silhouette for high-precision character rotoscoping, Mocha Pro for planar tracking and roto-paint, Nuke and Nuke X for spline-based roto and integrated paint workflows, After Effects with Roto Brush 2 for fast-turnaround commercial work, and DaVinci Resolve Fusion for editor-integrated cleanup.

Here is what we have to work with. Specialty cleanup work covers wire-and-rig removal (common on aerial drone, helicopter, and motion-control shots across Lisbon, Sintra Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, Algarve coast, Madeira mountain interiors, and Azores volcanic island work), tracking marker removal, rotomation for compositor handoff, garbage matting for greenscreen integration, and stabilization passes for handheld documentary plate work. Cross-border roto-and-cleanup capacity extends to DNEG Brussels for top feature VFX overflow, Method Studios London, and Madrid Animation within the 5-6 hour Lisbon-Madrid drive when high-volume shot counts demand parallel artist allocation. Roto sessions handoff to Nuke compositing in 32-bit linear EXR with multichannel pass workflows preserved through the finishing pipeline.

Here is the short of it. Portugal's rotoscoping community draws on the country's strong animation lineage. Regina Pessoa (Cannes 2006 Tragic Story with Happy Ending), José Miguel Ribeiro (Cannes-winning animator), Curtas Vila do Conde animation festival heritage (since 1993), and the Animais and Animanostra studios that have trained generations of Portuguese animators with deep classic and digital frame-by-frame skills directly applicable to rotoscoping precision work.

Here is the layout. Major global cleanup credits routing through Lisbon and cross-border facilities have had Indiana Jones 5: Dial of Destiny (Spielberg/Mangold 2023, partial The country shoot with wire-removal and tracker-removal work), 1899 (Netflix 2022 Portuguese co-prod with heavy period-clean wire-and-rig removal on transatlantic-steamer set work), Glória (Netflix 2021), Rabo de Peixe / White Lines (Netflix 2022 Azores aerial cleanup), and today's auteur features by Pedro Costa, Miguel Gomes, and João Pedro Rodrigues. EUR settlement at 23% IVA, Segurança Social ~34%, RGPD/GDPR + performer-image rights under CNPD oversight.