Both the proposal and Storyboard are more or less the same as that of my midterm. However, wherein the midterm I started the animation, here I finished it.
Goal: My goal for the midterm was to partially complete a composite 2-d animation/video of myself playing billiards against a rotoscoped version of myself.
Log:
Filming:
- Fortunately all of the filming for this project was done when I completed the midterm, so I did not need to film any additional material, although in hindsight, it might not have been a bad idea to obtain some higher quality footage.
Rotoscoping:
- For the rotoscoping that I did, I loaded the video files into Photoshop and then rotoscoped directly over them. My sketches were extremely.. well sketchy. I decided it wouldn't be an efficient enough use of time to go into great detail on the rotoscoping so I left most of them very basic.
Video Editing:
- Unfortunately due to my not taking clean shots of behind me after I acted something out to be rotoscoped. I needed to do a ton of masking to make some of the scenes look right. Depending on the situation, mainly whether or not the Rotoscoped character was interacting with his surroundings(the pool table), I decided whether it made more sense to mask out parts of the image or to take Photo shop and create a still of the background. When I deemed it necessary or easy to make a still, I would take the various parts of the video where I was not covering the background and collect those, and then mash them together. If more clone stamping or blending of some other kind was necessary, I took care of it.
Aside from all of the drawing and masking, there weren't too many other highly prevalent elements. Those two in themselves were probably 90% of the work. The other 10% was a mish-mash of timing and troubleshooting video editing software.
Self-Assessment:
I'm much more pleased with this final than I was the midterm. While, I do realize that this is the final and that is the midterm, I just feel like I put more effort into this. What is unchanged however, is how I regret pushing everything off too the last minute. It's really not a good idea, yet for some reason I continue to do so. I really like this project, but I feel like it needed a lot of polish. It came together in the end, but there are a lot of areas I could have tuned it up if I more time. However, given the time constraints of other classes, the amount of work I had already put into this, and my overall laziness, I just couldn't get anymore done.
One of the changes that I made to the project which I'm very pleased that I did, was the inclusion of my (the main character's) thought bubbles. I feel like without them and the speech bubbles, the viewer would really have hard a hard time figuring out exactly what the context of this film was. You can kind of guess from what's going on but you don't get a clear picture like you do when you can read the thought. I also thought what I wrote was funny, or at least I thought it was.
