Video composite I made yesterday

It's meant to just be hovering (aka not a fail bounce, a fail hover)

Creating a composite part 2

First we practiced with lightings depth of field and reflection.

Then using that, with a still photo we made a scene where it looks as though it's within a 3d environment.

Skateboard Roto

Finally rotoscoping proper footage for the ident.
I did every 3 frames, but every frame for the trick because if I missed any out it would have missed too much of the skateboard moving.

This only took an hour, and I took the rotoscoped character and put it on the same background but it's just not moving.

There isn't as much detail on the character because I drew him a lot smaller than in my tests. It was mainly to get to idea of how long it could take and the quality of the video when rotoscoping. But I don't think the character looks good enough this rough, so I may go back and do it in more detail.
Also there is another trick I need to do so will do that first.

Time Plan

Well I can't really do this accurately because when working in groups I guess there is a case of not knowing how long it'll take others to do things.

But for me

Today
We will be getting some footage of our Skateboarder friend. It may not be the nicest of days but I only need the character shots so I can rotoscope. So we will get the footage and then go through it to see what it is we will be using. And maybe even edit it so it'll be like creating a finished video, but then everyone will composite into it.

This Week
If the footage is all sorted out then for the rest of this week I will be rotoscoping.
I will start off with drawing every 3rd frame. This cuts down my amount of drawings to about 200 at least and will give us all an idea of the fluidity of the animation. If it looks good for one of the Idents then I will carry on doing it for the next 2 (however depending on today we may only have the footage for just one Ident).

Following Weeks
Well doing all 3 Idents may take longer than a week. But if I get it done in good time I may go back into it and add more inbetween frames to make it look better.
Also next week, hoping everyone is in, we can give other people in the group the footage we have so they can go off and do there parts (e.g rotoscoping other effects and composting the 3D elements).

Final Week
By this time we plan to have all the rotoscoping done as well as the 3D composites. So this Final week will hopefully will just be editing and dubbing in the Sound design (if we haven't already been able to do so the week before).


Following this plan means that we have plenty of time to get all 3 of these Idents done, and even though we really need to get together as a full group to discuss things it shouldn't be too hard to keep to this plan.

Channel 4 Ident Test

More practice.

Photo is mine

Logo is not.

After animating it, i saved it from 2 different camera angles to then put into After Effects to mix together like the ones you see on T.V.

Test 2

Okay I was going to do this tomorrow but I got bored so did it today. Also was only gonna do a small section of it, but got carried away.

It definitely looks good done properly.
I think it's about 65 frames and it's taken me maybe about 5 hours (if not more, I keep forgetting to time myself).

Only things wrong with it now is you can see him slightly underneath. But as I start doing the real thing I'll actually make sure it's done well.

Now I need to go to bed, because my hand has cramp......and it's 6am.

Brother Skating Test.

Well I have drawn from a youtube video linked by Steve. But I wanted to havean actual video to properly put what I draw over the top.

Which failed but here it is

So as you can see there are a lot of frames missing so you can still see my brother behind it (and I generally just failed at drawing over him properly.) but it still shows you the idea of what it can look like.

Tomorrow I will do a much shorter clip, but with every frame in it.

This is the animation just by itself.

I think it's still quite smooth, and I like the drawing style (just need to see what the others think.)

Next up is to think of weird and wonderful things I can add to it. (again I'm not that creative, so may get the others just to suggest things).

Testing So Far

When rotoscoping over the top of a video. If we are wanting to keep the original video underneath the rotoscope I will have to literally draw every frame in order to completely mask the person I'm rotoscoping.

I have a problem with this seeing as it's taken me at least an hour to draw 22 frames and it'd take 3 times that to fit the video. I can do it of course and I'm guessing the guys want me to. It's just gonna take a lot of time.

However!
If we were to record the background without the character then I can composite my rotoscoped version of the character onto the top of it, hopefully without mistake.
This is an example of where a still, or locked, camera is needed in order to make sure my character fits into the background.

I will post my work so far once I've finished animating.



In other news I do actaully like the look of my rotoscoping, and this is before adding any random elements (ie cartoon body parts.)

Idents

Idents that can influence me when working with group on our own.

This is a MTV one where you can see it uses live film as the main environment. but with this 3D model in the center and interacting with it.
This is the kind of thing we are looking to doing for our Ident.

This is SYFY channel and shows liquid filling up and invisible object which shows the logo. This is again another idea of something we can do to show the Logo we do. Whether it'd be liquid or anything else with this same kind of idea.

This ones for Gold. I chose this because the illustrations and colours. This is another thing we are incorporating into ours.

This E4 one again shows a 3d object within a more realistic environment, this time it's the reveal of the logo which is something we mainly are using the 3d aspect for.

Compositing Tests

Initial testing

street image doesn't belong to me

Then testing adding a foreground

This image is mine (taken like 5 years ago in France).