# Silhouette Reviews **Vendor:** VU Custon **Category:** [Visual Product Customization Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/visual-product-customization) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 30 ## About Silhouette Silhouette is the only product customization solution on the market that includes order management and factory routing. Backed by decades of custom manufacturing experience. Trusted by New Balance, TaylorMade, Wolverine and dozens of other leading brands. ## Silhouette Reviews ### 1. Best software for rotoscoping and paint work in vfx industry **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Krishna Kumar S. | Senior Compositor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** Easy to do roto in this software because it is totaly dedicated to roto and paint work . so there are no lots of menus and tool options. . Easy to use and learn . Very powerfull in tracking the footages also spacially planner trackers. New version proinging node graph interface like nuke which is also very user friendly and cool. **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** On heavy files like on 4k exr , it does not work properly . for smooth work we need to render in jpeg or low file formate which affect in dilivering quality output. **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** Smoothnes in rotoscopy . No other softwares like nuke , after effect or mocha are as smooth and fast as silhouette. ### 2. Rest For Rotoscopy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pankaj P. | vfx Roto Artist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** I like motion blur, render, composting tricks mainly compostite fire and smoke in silhouette. **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** I don't face any issue in silhouette. So i have nothing that i can mention here. **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is solving the issue of rotoscopy and motionblur in a very effective way. ### 3. Silhouette Video Review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Syed H. | Sr Roto Artist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** Easy tracking. Very useful for roto. Lovable software **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** Silhouette 7.2 updated software dont have feather keyspot in timeline **Recommendations to others considering Silhouette:** User friendly compositing software. More preferable for roto and paint **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy bg tracking. Storke option very good. Easy blending ### 4. Cameo 4: A great machine for artists looking to make their own merch! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Smote M. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** Silhouette is great for anyone looking for an alternative to Cricut (especially after their subscription model fiasco). While you can use pretty much any sticker materials with the Cameo 4, the glitter sticker paper produced by Silhouette is really beautiful and always gets a lot of interest when I'm vending! I like how easy the software is to use as well. While I can go through the trouble of pre-designing my sticker off-set cuts, the fact that I can just toss any image into Silhouette Studio and create an off-set border cut is fantastic. **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** There's honestly not too much that I dislike so far. I would say my main complaint is that registration can sometimes be tricky, especially when dealing with shiny materials. Occasionally, my blade won't set to the right depth but that's usually resolved by manually removing the blade, setting it, and then replacing it. I do recommend keeping an eye on the machine as it's cutting to be able to quickly pause to troubleshoot if you have any issues. Much easier than finishing the whole cut and finding out something went off early on. **Recommendations to others considering Silhouette:** Your mileage may vary with needing to babysit your cuts. On the whole, I usually just hang out in the same room while working on other designs while the machine runs. Rarely do I have issues but when I do, I'm able to pause and correct rather than lose materials. Others have reported similar issues but many people find they have no problems at all. **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had been spending hours trying to find a manufacturer for stickers but the costs were far too high and often the quality was poor. Silhouette Studio and the Cameo 4 allow to to quickly run prototypes and play around with materials to my hearts content. I've more than paid for the cost of the machine at this point and it's awesome. I'm now beginning to print vinyl templates for screen printing so I can continue to print shirts and bags! ### 5. Top experience personalizing marketing material **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rúben R. | Senior Technician, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** The most iconic feature is the UI, it has the simplicity of Paint but the engine of almost photoshop, I'm really impressed how the studio has the tools well organized, and not too shabby buttons. **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** the downside is the compatibility with other vector formats and other cutting printers aside own ones. which could be resolved and the software would be perfect **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** with the studio software, it was possible to produce fastly merchandise and some perks for our clients and colleagues. ### 6. Very simple, needs to have more option **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luis Fernando P. | Diseñador gráfico, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** THE STORE IS VERY COMPLETE, HAS A LOT OF OPTION **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** THE ARTBOARD IS VERY LIMITED, I MEAN I THING IT NEEDS TO BE MORE THAN ILLUSTRATOR **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** T SHIRT AND VYNIL CUTTING DESIGN. ### 7. One of the best software for VFX Rotoscopy & Sequence Paint **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prosenjit R. | Jr. Matchmove & RotoAnim Artist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** I have been using Silhouette for more than 4 years and honestly speaking whenever I have worked on it it has only made me delighted and the results are perfect. Here are some of the features that I like about Silhouette, - Mocha track helps a lot in rotoscoping. - The compact size and great storage optimization make the software blazingly fast. - The variety of handy Roto-utilities makes the whole experience really smooth for an artist like me. **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** There is nothing that I dislike about the software. One artist can use any version of the software and get pretty much everything done very easily. **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been using Silhouette for Rotoscopying in some of my professional projects which include Hollywood a-listed shows as well as my personal projects. ### 8. Useful for creating own designs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Arts and Crafts | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** Very helpful for my small business and for creating craft projects for planning, gifts, etc. **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** Would like better features for iPad version app and allow for more file types **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows one way to make sure I get in some play/creativity when I'm not the most artistic otherwise. I wouldn't be running my small business without it. ### 9. Great product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joshua S. | Call Center Customer Service Representative, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** The ability to design and create great quality items **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** Not much I dislike about the company it is very flexible **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've never had an issue with them to complain about any product ordered ### 10. Great Program! Much better than the competition. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** I love using silhouette for all of my designs, I previously used Cricut and there is a WORLD of difference. It’s a much better program that is much easier to use with minimal glitches. **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** I have had some issues with specific designs that the program would randomly closeout, or say the design is corrupt. But overall, I have very few gripes with the program. **Recommendations to others considering Silhouette:** If you're looking for a craft cutter-- I would definitely recommend Silhouette over the competition. The features and abilities far surpass that of others like it and it makes for a more professional quality product with fewer issues along the way. **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** Silhouette helps me to create cut files and customize things in a way I couldn’t have otherwise. I am still discovering new benefits and tools every day with using Silhouette. I have had friends ask me to help them with projects that they weren't able to complete with their Cricut program. ### 11. Very Good **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gourav J. | Student, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** Rotoscopy is the best part of Sillhouette; we can easily do it in the new upgrade. **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** Nothing is much to dislike. The interface is excellent. **Recommendations to others considering Silhouette:** Yes, I say Silhouette is good and user friendly. **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** With the Silhouette Studio, you can create images using sophisticated graphics and drawing tools as well as promotion of efficiency and productivity during the production as well as post-production stage. Efficiency is the number one advantage of using Silhouette Studio. ### 12. best solution for innovational market experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** well organized tools with simple and easy to use functions like paint and photoshop **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** all designs are not accessible and it gets turned off automtically **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** it helps me in creating files in my own personalized manner and every day i get to know about a new benefit and which means that it has limitless use. ### 13. Unbiased Technical Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vikas M S. | Service Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** Integration with all Major ecommerce platforms **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** Not encountered any downside as such till now **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** Virtual mechandizing saved tons of hours ### 14. Great software for rotoscopy. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kaushal K. | stereo compositor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** The Mocha Tracker is best for roto tracking, as it helps you to animate the polys / bezier easily. In Silhouette u can work on all animated keys simultaneously without going on each key. **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** Somrle times it hangs very quickly when too many polys are build up, the interface is very easy but it can contain some shortcuts for some tools of rotoscoping. **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** No big problems, just small hanging issues. It helped most of the time by quicklty fixing of a roto. Our friends say about silhouette, the its the best software in the market. ### 15. The best software for roto **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Balaji K. | HOD, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** The best is planer tracking for speed up the roto task. Very well designed for faster and accuracy roto task in this. Can get more high quality motion blur and good quality roto **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** Nothing much, it's going in right direction. If they improve more in paint will be help ful lot **Recommendations to others considering Silhouette:** Definitely yes for highest quality roto task. **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly roto , simple to complex roto can possible like a magic. Faster and easy tools to make any kind of roto work . Thanks to silhouette. ### 16. Software That Knows What the User Wants **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Motion Pictures and Film | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** Silhouette's roto assist functionality is fantastic, X-Splines in particular are tailored to the experiences of roto artists, and the integration of Mocha, planar, and point trackers all interacting together is fantastic. **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** Silhouette's interface is sometimes a little frustrating, it runs super fast but at the expense of being a little bare, meaning you often need to take roto to other software like nuke to do a comprehensive roto review. **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** Silhouette helps me roto at least 1.5x as fast as I would without its tracker assist and X-splines. It also caches super well, meaning time is no longer lost on little things like jumping between frames, and playback is silky smooth. ### 17. The software is very good for detail roto and tracking rather than other software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Durvesh R. | Mediclaim & billing department, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** The software ui built good understand for a beginner even for tracking don't need any other software. For Sequence paint it good to work on. **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** For clean plate paint it's not good to work on it. **Recommendations to others considering Silhouette:** Their is not single disadvantages of using this software **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** Most of the time I used the software in my office and there was no problem that I got while working on it. ### 18. very nice **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sanket v. | vfx rotoscoping and chroma key artist , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** mocha tracking and point tracking, i like b spline to drow free shapes **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** planer tracker is not working correctly and mocha also sometimes does not working whole range track when full spline program will close automatically **Recommendations to others considering Silhouette:** very nice software to creat mattes **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** when I convert spline to nuke get an error because of project setting, and sometimes you need to copy the layer or just rename ### 19. Silhouette is one of the best tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Murali K. | VFX ARTIST, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** Creating mattes by using silhouette pixels to pixel we can give details by using this silhouette software artist friendly software. **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** Dislike means some times it will be crash software when ever we doing tracking part. **Recommendations to others considering Silhouette:** Most and popular software in the world need to use all artists once at least. **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracing mattes and give best quality output to client ### 20. loved the learning **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sai A. | Lighting trainee, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** There is a lot of helpful information on the website, including videos to walk you through some of the more complicated steps. No shortage of tutorials for this application, making it easy to learn even the advanced features. **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** i like everything about this software so there's nothing to say . **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** mostly i use this for roto and stuff which makes my work easy ### 21. Silhouette for the Win! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathan P. | Teacher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** There is a lot of helpful information on the website, including videos to walk you through some of the more complicated steps. **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** It can be confusing remembering all the steps at the end before you get used to the program. **Recommendations to others considering Silhouette:** Watch the tutorial videos on the website. **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have a student-run business that students are utilizing Silhouette in to make amazing creations and ideas come to life. ### 22. Very handy software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhinav S. | Lighting TD, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** The easy to use UI and fast nature of the software makes me lose less of my time **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** There should be an option to select light or dark theme **Recommendations to others considering Silhouette:** Just make the license a little easy to get to. **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** i have my personal level of problems and solutions of it as well. ### 23. Silhouette is salt for VFX curry **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Motion Pictures and Film | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** The best part of silhouette is it is now complete with powerful poly tracking tools of mocha and mortar. The overall result is smooth and flawless. The UI of the software is very training friendly due to it being layerbase. Overall rendering of mattes is less time consuming. **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** Nothing, its awesome, I have used it for years and never felt any other better than that. **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problems!, really it is the utmost solution to even a pinch of an issue. Its just the BEST ### 24. Silhouette is very powerful, easy to learn and use tool for VFX work. Mainly roto and clean up work **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Animation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** User interface is straightforward, light yet extremely powerful tool. **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** Node graph should be more flexible and can be easy to use. **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being a team leader. I use Silhouette mainly for rotoscopy and clean up wor, ### 25. temp **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Animation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** everything how we can utilize and save time **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** Sometimes it is prolonged, but I can't judge **Recommendations to others considering Silhouette:** use it, and you will understand what you were missing **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** silhouette helps to solve all day today problem with all ease ### 26. Amazing tools for roto scoping and compositing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** Easy understandable interface and smooth work flow **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** Nothing much, minor lags while working on it **Recommendations to others considering Silhouette:** Go for it **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** Compare to other tools this is very easy to use and time consumption is less ### 27. Easy for beginners but plenty of advanced features **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Becky T. | Accounting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** No shortage of tutorials for this application, making it easy to learn even the advanced features. **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** It can get glitchy if you have multiple tabs open at once. **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps with artwork design on t-shirts ### 28. Awesome **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Animation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** Paint tool is giving a lots of help, keeping the traditional way is an another appreciation **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** Please introduce More efficient camera tracking **Recommendations to others considering Silhouette:** Industry standard solution to roto and paint **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** In paint tool , we tried 360 degree shots ### 29. Professional Quality at a Low Cost **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2018 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** I use the Silhouette Studio at work to create many different items. It is easy to navigate and combined with online videos, I have learned a lot on my own. **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** I do not like some of the features that are auto-inputted. It's confusing to know how to save settings for specific things on the computer (cutter settings). **Recommendations to others considering Silhouette:** I would recommend Silhouette to those who are looking to create small online shops or make items for fun. The software is very easy to use. **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** Silhouette is easy to use and teach, so it benefits us because we can use it to create a professional product quickly and efficiently. ### 30. Perfect for Roto Paint **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Animation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 08, 2018 **What do you like best about Silhouette?** Easy menus, basic tools, fast and simple to use. **What do you dislike about Silhouette?** There isn’t anything I don’t like about this software. **What problems is Silhouette solving and how is that benefiting you?** Roto Paint work. ## Silhouette Discussions - [Which Silhouette program is best?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-silhouette-program-is-best) - [What is Silhouette software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-silhouette-software) - [What can Silhouette Studio do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-can-silhouette-studio-do) - [What's the next development step/addition to Silhouette.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-s-the-next-development-step-addition-to-silhouette) - 1 upvote - [Can u add feather keys in updated version](https://www.g2.com/discussions/can-u-add-feather-keys-in-updated-version) - 1 upvote - [View Silhouette pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/silhouette/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-16+12%3A13%3A10+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e49266b4-26f1-4c60-afc0-c37001a68b26&secure%5Btoken%5D=a70026303667eec6aaef5f1cc672518d4a9b2178d806e2c685ae99faee95dc18&format=llm_user) ## Silhouette Features **Configuration** - 3D Configurator - Real-time - Free-form **Visualization** - 360 View - Interactive - Virtual Reality **Integration** - E-commerce - Websites - APIs ## Top Silhouette Alternatives - [Epicor CPQ](https://www.g2.com/products/epicor-cpq/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (95 reviews) - [Kickflip](https://www.g2.com/products/kickflip-kickflip/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (117 reviews) - [Coohom](https://www.g2.com/products/coohom/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (126 reviews)