Faster, More Flexible AI Matting Fuels Boris FX Silhouette

Faster, More Flexible AI Matting Fuels Boris FX Silhouette

Jessie Electa Petrov June 2, 2026

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The 2026 release helps artists tackle complex matting, roto, and paint in fewer steps, adds an automated 3D head mesh, and delivers speedier performance.

Boris FX Silhouette, the Academy and Emmy Award-winning rotoscoping and digital paint software, builds upon its AI-based roto and matting foundation with significant pipeline improvements. The 2026 release delivers precise, production-ready results with updated AI tools that automatically detect, segment, propagate, and refine while artists maintain total creative control.

Silhouette 2026 also introduces new 3D capabilities, including automated 3D head mesh generation and Unwrap/Rewrap nodes; expands painting controls for easier cleanup and beauty work; streamlines downstream VFX pipelines with better Cryptomatte integration; saves time with major performance boosts; and offers automated external control and AI integration via built-in RPC and MCP servers.

Boris FX Silhouette 2026: Enhanced AI Matting Tools

Silhouette 2026 is all about giving artists a faster, more intelligent workflow for roto, paint, and beauty work, says Marco Paolini, Product Manager and Designer of Silhouette at Boris FX. The new AI-assisted tools, advanced tracking, integrated 3D workflows, and major paint enhancements help artists solve complex shots more efficiently while staying fully in creative control.

Our artists have already been using the latest ML tools to assist them in their roto and paint tasks, states Adam Walker, Roto Paint Supervisor at Untold Studio. My favourite by far is the new Point Track ML, getting a more solid track and worrying less about the object being occluded has helped artists speed up their work.

AI-Driven Matting Silhouette gives artists access to a smarter AI matting pipeline that dramatically reduces manual effort, enabling faster iteration and high-quality results. Each tool builds on the previous one to create a complete AI-assisted roto, masking, and cleanup workflow.

The 2026 release includes updates to five tools that provide greater time savings with scalable, multi-object workflows that streamline downstream compositing tasks.

Face ML introduces a new model with Nose and Neck matte options that target facial segmentation more precisely, a new full-face matte option for broader coverage, and improved integration with deeper ML masking and compositing workflows.

Depth Map ML features a new model that delivers greater detail and improved temporal consistency.

Mask ML adds a new multi-object workflow with object list management, foreground/background refinement tools, and outputs Cryptomatte data per object.

Matte Assist ML delivers seamless playback with intermediate-frame caching, improved propagation performance for long shots, and multi-object Cryptomatte output.

Matte Refine ML includes a new Video Matting model that delivers improved temporal consistency along edges compared to earlier versions. Cryptomatte data is now preserved after refinement.

Boris FX Silhouette 2026: New Head Track ML

Integrated 3D & Enhanced Tracking Silhouette's updated 3D Scene node, powered by Boris FX SynthEyes, provides artists with a true 3D-aware workflow directly in Silhouette. The new features make it easier to handle intricate retouching and digital makeup tasks without painstaking frame-by-frame adjustments.

Head Track ML uses AI to automatically build and track a full 3D head mesh while preserving facial motion and expressions for stable, face-aware effects. The ML model loads into a user's graphics card and detects the head in a scene. Once detected, Silhouette creates and tracks a correctly aligned and scaled 3D head mesh.

Refine Solve helps artists iterate quickly without reprocessing the entire camera solve to make improvements. Users can fix bad frames and smooth problem areas by deleting erratic or unnecessary 3D features, resulting in stable, more accurate 3D solves and faster cleanups.

Unwrap/Rewrap Nodes enable seamless workflows between 3D and 2D UV space for roto, paint, and beauty work.

Render Depth Node generates depth maps from Head Track ML meshes to use in beauty work or wider downstream VFX pipelines.

Boris FX Silhouette 2026: New Point Track ML

Silhouette's point tracker, a VFX workflow staple for decades, gets an upgrade with Point Track ML. The new tracker delivers more reliable results with less manual cleanup, helping artists more easily tackle real-world tracking challenges such as motion blur, occlusions, objects going off-screen, and changing reference patterns. Point Track ML includes three accuracy settings to better analyze the track and Viewer Stabilization to validate and lock the track.

Additionally, the Object Tracker automatically detects and creates layers for object classes, such as faces and license plates, which reduces manual setup time, and all tracker types now support occlusion matte input.

Boris FX Silhouette 2026: New Painting Tools

Paint Improvements Silhouette's powerful paint system adds new creative controls and workflow improvements that deliver quicker, higher-quality cleanups and beauty work pipelines.

A new Healing Brush enables seamless cleanup and retouching with expanded color sampling from any input.

Brush controls support blend modes and pressure-sensitive sizes, giving artists more precise results. Blur, Clone, and Drag brushes also introduce more natural and flexible behavior.

An enhanced clone workflow adds continuous mode and auto-grade locking, which allows artists to achieve better paint in far fewer clicks.

Resize Paint is a new resolution-independent workflow that allows digital artists to create strokes in a lower-resolution session and then accurately rebuild them on higher-res media.

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