Composite's Vector Paint tool can be used to draw, to rotoscope, to clone parts of an image in a different location, or to reveal a completely different image.

In the Vector Paint tool, you draw by creating shapes on the canvas. Contrary to Composite's Raster Paint, once a shape is created in Vector Paint, you can edit its parameters to change the shape's location and orientation, for example using a tracker to animate the shape. If the shape is a Bézier, you can edit individual points, changing their opacity or their tangents, for example. You can do this using the same key frame animation techniques you use in other Composite tools. All the shapes drawn in a given Vector Paint tool are composited back to front over an optional background image to produce the Vector Paint output image.

Additionally, Vector Paint has strong similarities with other Composite shape-based tools, such as the Garbage Mask, Remove Dust, and Warp 2D tools.