Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Exercise 3
For the rotoscoping exercise I wanted to take a popular video of a bear dancing on the internet and rotoscope it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0UQ27J5w_c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0UQ27J5w_c
Exercise 2
Since I missed exercise three when we did it together in class, I went back and performed the the exercise which was given in the tutorial pdf.
Exercise 1
I wanted to take a 2-d ball and make it bounce and move (kinda like our first maya project in animation 1). I was using a trial edition of combustion so I wasn't able to actually save the combustion file and was forced to render it.
Documentation
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:
- After having trouble securing a video camera from the cage, I gave up and just used a friend's digital camera. The video quality was not the highest but it was at least sufficient for this project.
- I went to the student center and filmed myself in scenes which roughly followed my storyboard. For most shots which would require both myself and the rotoscoped version of myself, what I did was to leave camera stationary while I performed the role of one character, and then to simply finish that and go act out the role of the other character without touching the camera.
Rotoscoping:
- In order to rotoscope myself, I went ahead and imported the video into Photoshop. I then decided on the most important frames and rotoscoped those first. After I finished I went back and added more frames until I thought that the movement was fluid enough.
Video Editing:
- This stage required very little editing. I simply just laid the rotoscoped frames with transparency on top of the first half of the video while cutting out the second half of the video where I actually acted out what I was rotoscoping.
- I also compiled the scene of the pool balls getting sunk and paying up money however, I did not have enough to time to fully rotoscope and incorporate it.
Self-Assessment:
Overall, I'm not really very pleased with this project as it is. Which, I guess is understandable considering I completed such a small portion of it. Only being able to do the intro scene was very much below what I expected to accomplish, however, I started working on this way too late, and by the time I was done with it, I really didn't have the drive to do any more of it. Thankfully, I'm done shooting video, so I can slowly rotoscope and edit the rest of the project as the end of the semester approaches, however trying to cram this in just before the midterm was definitely a mistake.
Log:
Filming:
- After having trouble securing a video camera from the cage, I gave up and just used a friend's digital camera. The video quality was not the highest but it was at least sufficient for this project.
- I went to the student center and filmed myself in scenes which roughly followed my storyboard. For most shots which would require both myself and the rotoscoped version of myself, what I did was to leave camera stationary while I performed the role of one character, and then to simply finish that and go act out the role of the other character without touching the camera.
Rotoscoping:
- In order to rotoscope myself, I went ahead and imported the video into Photoshop. I then decided on the most important frames and rotoscoped those first. After I finished I went back and added more frames until I thought that the movement was fluid enough.
Video Editing:
- This stage required very little editing. I simply just laid the rotoscoped frames with transparency on top of the first half of the video while cutting out the second half of the video where I actually acted out what I was rotoscoping.
- I also compiled the scene of the pool balls getting sunk and paying up money however, I did not have enough to time to fully rotoscope and incorporate it.
Self-Assessment:
Overall, I'm not really very pleased with this project as it is. Which, I guess is understandable considering I completed such a small portion of it. Only being able to do the intro scene was very much below what I expected to accomplish, however, I started working on this way too late, and by the time I was done with it, I really didn't have the drive to do any more of it. Thankfully, I'm done shooting video, so I can slowly rotoscope and edit the rest of the project as the end of the semester approaches, however trying to cram this in just before the midterm was definitely a mistake.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Midterm Project Proposal
For my midterm I plan on creating (or at least starting) a video where I play a rotoscoped version of myself in a game of billiards.
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