so we've digitized our footage and on watching it back we have quite a major problem. the footage is rather dark and the the blue screen isnt quite blue and our actors jeans on many occasions blend in with the background. this would prove very hard to composite on. it would require me to paint out a lot of, if not the majority of the frames.
we tried to salvage the footage and change some of the colour balance etc but the shadows made are still very prominent and virtually useless. Some of the group are still going ahead with this footage but now are putted an animated character on to the scene and not the other way round. instead of this Carlos and I have decided to re-film our footage and are now looking at shooting outside and compositing something into real time using a combination of Maya and AfterEffects.
will keep you updated
Friday, 16 October 2009
first things first
so we shot the footage.
with quite a clear idea in mind and armed with our story boards we set out filming in studio B. my idea was to have our actor (Keith) running through a 3d environment. so keith started running, we shot from a number of angles so to have a nice choice of shots to choose from.
a couple of problems we came across was the fact the blue screen did not roll onto the floor so we rented a pop out blue screen and combined it with the original blue screen.
another problem we came across was the lighting in the studio, unfortunately the lighting was too warm (orange) to really pick up the true colours that should have been displayed in our piece. we moved the lighting around and dimmed a few of them to optimize what we had to work with.
we ended up shooting around 20 minutes of footage for a 1 minute piece so hopefully will have enough to choose from.
here's a little picture from today
with quite a clear idea in mind and armed with our story boards we set out filming in studio B. my idea was to have our actor (Keith) running through a 3d environment. so keith started running, we shot from a number of angles so to have a nice choice of shots to choose from.
a couple of problems we came across was the fact the blue screen did not roll onto the floor so we rented a pop out blue screen and combined it with the original blue screen.
another problem we came across was the lighting in the studio, unfortunately the lighting was too warm (orange) to really pick up the true colours that should have been displayed in our piece. we moved the lighting around and dimmed a few of them to optimize what we had to work with.
we ended up shooting around 20 minutes of footage for a 1 minute piece so hopefully will have enough to choose from.
here's a little picture from today
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
what it is all about
So this my first blog for my second year. If you didnt know I am studying animation at Ravensbourne art college. This blog will be documenting my work in the unit CVA204.
This unit is our first experience of using blue/green screen technology to help us composite real time with animation. I am looking forward to this unit because i have never used compositing before but i feel if this project goes well then it may be an area i want to look into. So i will be shooting someone on a blue screen then compositing that person into or onto an animated background.
This unit is our first experience of using blue/green screen technology to help us composite real time with animation. I am looking forward to this unit because i have never used compositing before but i feel if this project goes well then it may be an area i want to look into. So i will be shooting someone on a blue screen then compositing that person into or onto an animated background.
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