Boris FX has launched Silhouette 2025.5, the newest update to its industry standard rotoscoping and paint software suite. The upgrade further expands its AI-assisted matte tools, letting users select objects through natural language prompts and export the results as Cryptomatte data.
The big new flex?
- You can now type natural-language prompts (“cars”, “person wearing pink”) into the AI masking tools, and it’ll spit out mattes.
- Those mattes can now be exported as Cryptomatte IDs, so instead of one big mask, you can pull apart each object later in Nuke/Resolve/etc.
- New Face ML node does auto-segmentation of face parts (skin, eyes, lips, beard, etc.) → basically “beauty/cleanup masks on autopilot.”
- Their 3D Scene node now has built-in camera tracking powered by SynthEyes tech, so you don’t need to hop into another app first.
Price check ( INR 💸)
- Standalone perpetual: $2,195 (~₹1.83 lakh)
- Plugin perpetual: $1,195 (~₹99.7k)
- Rental standalone: $165/month (~₹13.8k) or $875/year (~₹73k)
- Rental plugin: $103/month (~₹8.6k) or $545/year (~₹45.5k)
Silhouette, originally released two decades ago and acquired by Boris FX in 2019, is widely used in film and broadcast visual effects. The tool has earned both a Scientific & Technical Academy Award and an Engineering Emmy Award for its contributions to the industry.
Silhouette is offered both as a standalone application (Windows 10+, macOS 12+, Linux) and as a plugin compatible with Adobe software and OFX-compatible hosts like Nuke and DaVinci Resolve.
