Course Work
| Project 4 Team Compositing | |||
| Appalachian Dancer & Kool Aid Man | |||
| MAIN | |||
| Title Sequence | Falling Professor | Moving Sound Booth | Still Sound Booth |
| Moving Studio Shot | Jim Skeleton | Appalachian Dancer & Kool Aid Man | Dancing Shoes |
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| This shot was handled by Ashley, Dan, and Kiel. | |||
| For this shot Ashley animated the dancer in Maya, and used an image from the clip to set up the perspective of the camera and to match the lighting. | |||
| She added a drop shadow in Shake and used the color replace node to change the color of the dancer's clothes so that he would stand out more. Ashley used 1-point tracking to keep him in place. | |||
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| Dan focused on creating the Kool Aid man animation and adding the photos of Dr. Davis to the wall. | |||
| The first step was to create the content. Dan started by Googling accessories for the Dr. Davis pictures located on his website and he used The Gimp to composite them. | |||
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| Next Dan modeled and rigged the DPA brick wall and the Kool Aid Man. Then he animated the wall busting action. After Kiel finished modifying the lighting for the shot, Dan rendered out a shadow pass which he incorporated using Shake. | |||
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Dan attempted multiple methods for tracking the busting brick animation, but the most successful was to do a one point match move on the scene. The first part and last part of the track worked really well because there was not very much movement, but the center was very slippy. Dan opened the track text file and used math to determine the best track to get from the end of the first part to the beginning of the last part. After modifying the track, Dan began adding animated rotoshapes to be sure the fake white board was in the very back of the scene and did not cover the people, computers and desks in the front row of the class. And the final piece of compositing for the Kool Aid man was a brightness node from the beginning of the scene to the end of the scene to account for the video camera's auto white balance.
Tracking the pictures of Dr. Davis was much easier thanks to the blue tape that was added during filming for just that purpose. Once again, a single match move was used because four point matchmoving caused to much distortion in the picture as the tracks were not perfectly synced. Dan used a corner pin and overnode to put the pictures and frames in the right perspective. |
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| Kiel setup the lighting and modified the textures on the Kool Aid man animation in Maya to match the actual lighting and color of the DPA classroom. For a complete description of how he did it, please visit http://visualbungalow.blogspot.com | |||