Course Work
| Project 2 Image Compositing |
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Use Shake to create composited image sequences using combinations of live footage and computer-generated elements. Tracking, live action background with moving object and computer generated foreground element matching that movement. |
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| Simple Composite |
| Match Moving |
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| Here is my final tracking shot. |
| Here are the source materials for the tracking shot. |
| This was a very complicated shot. I filmed it using a drumstick marked with black tape in the hope that I would be able to match move the stick with two points and make it drive my lightsaber motion. When I finally got the footage into Shake however, tracking was not an option. The video was too grainy and the stick was too small. I ended up having to manually match move using one point every frame. After that, I built a lightsaber in maya and animated it to rotate as it does in the video, but it does not move directionally, just rotates. Next I pulled the lightsaber in to shake and did an overnode with the matchmove to see how well the saber followed my hand. It was not perfect, so I added a pan and animated it to adjust the lightsaber as neccessary to more closely follow my hand. Then I had to create a rotoshape that masked out the section of the lightsaber that was above my hand so it looked like i was holding it instead of it being attached to the outsdie of my hand. That was also a frame by frame manual process. |
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