Digital Compositing
Okay...
I'm gonna try to explain what exactly i'm doing with digital compositing.
These are just a sample of one of my shot from the 3rd scene, i just do it in steps, basically;
1. I took a shot of the complete stage with all the right lighting.
2. Took only the skins (layed out in acetate sheet) on the stage. (the reason i did it directly on the stage is so i can get all the right lighting reflections on the skins)
Then in Photoshop;
3. Made a clipping mask of the cat and the table so i can put them on the foreground.
4. Cleaned up the skins, layed them out evenly on the screen, copied and multiplied them, put on a bigger canvas size than the PAL DV (720x576 pixel), like 740x1300 pixel.
(hmm...all those photoshop clipping mask, adjustment layer, alpha channels stuff we learnt in 1st semester is indeed very usefull)
In After Effects;
5. Bring all photoshop files as composition
6. Arrange all the images; Kitty and table on the foreground, skin layers in the middle and kitchen in the background. (still need to add adjustment layer to make shadows tho, did it in photoshop but it doesn't seem to work on After Effects)
7. Then just animate the skin layer up and down like falling rain, i had 3 layers of skins with different skin size to add more depth.
It's only a test but so far it seems to be working well, and quite believable, didn't even need a green screen (can't be bothered), and the process is quite simple and fast (took only half a day). But don't compare it to those high end visual fx seen on movies, this is just student amateur work, dodgy stuff u know, hey, at least it works.
I'm gonna try to explain what exactly i'm doing with digital compositing.
These are just a sample of one of my shot from the 3rd scene, i just do it in steps, basically;
1. I took a shot of the complete stage with all the right lighting.
2. Took only the skins (layed out in acetate sheet) on the stage. (the reason i did it directly on the stage is so i can get all the right lighting reflections on the skins)
Then in Photoshop;
3. Made a clipping mask of the cat and the table so i can put them on the foreground.
4. Cleaned up the skins, layed them out evenly on the screen, copied and multiplied them, put on a bigger canvas size than the PAL DV (720x576 pixel), like 740x1300 pixel.
(hmm...all those photoshop clipping mask, adjustment layer, alpha channels stuff we learnt in 1st semester is indeed very usefull)
In After Effects;
5. Bring all photoshop files as composition
6. Arrange all the images; Kitty and table on the foreground, skin layers in the middle and kitchen in the background. (still need to add adjustment layer to make shadows tho, did it in photoshop but it doesn't seem to work on After Effects)
7. Then just animate the skin layer up and down like falling rain, i had 3 layers of skins with different skin size to add more depth.
It's only a test but so far it seems to be working well, and quite believable, didn't even need a green screen (can't be bothered), and the process is quite simple and fast (took only half a day). But don't compare it to those high end visual fx seen on movies, this is just student amateur work, dodgy stuff u know, hey, at least it works.
posted by kookylane | 7:29 PM
1 Comments:
AMAZING! That scene is just LOVELY! Reminds me of Maximus going into the colloseum and is showered with flowers. Also reminded me of this.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v340/JustinFoo/warcraft3.jpg"A shot from the WarCraft3 Cinematic Trailer. Couldn't download the scene that i had in mind tho. VERY NICE WORK! Altho I DO have ONE comment. There's really ALOT of skin falling....That's all very nice, but I can only see a small pile on the ground. Clone the pile to fill the kitchen floor perhaps? The top half of the shot looks GREAT! But the bottom half doesn't look as convincing. Know what i mean?
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