How do you do Character Compositing?

Quu · Post by **Quu** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 4:34 pm

Pinnacle Comotion is one of those "far more sophisticated software" that is meant for rotoscoping and compositing

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 9:35 pm

BTW, it's really sweet when you're taking a character from a solid black background and putting them into another solid black background. Iam considering using this in one of my videos. The folding chair from the last 2 eps of Evangelion is so similar to the one in Britey Spears' "Stronger" music video... hmm...

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 9:46 pm

save image sequence . . T_T . . old school there - bub!

yes, there is an easier way today ^^ and it sounds more complicated than it really is:

1) crop the number of frames you want to use.

2) transparent the color(s) you want to loose andthreshold the colors you've picked to a limit that allows you to only show the parts of the scene you want to use ^^

its a combination of effects that can be stored in your behavior file - for that clip ^^

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 10:03 pm

post-it wrote:save image sequence . . T_T . . old school there - bub!

yes, there is an easier way today ^^ and it sounds more complicated than it really is:

1) crop the number of frames you want to use.

2) transparent the color(s) you want to loose andthreshold the colors you've picked to a limit that allows you to only show the parts of the scene you want to use ^^

its a combination of effects that can be stored in your behavior file - for that clip ^^

This is nice when you have a scene where there is both a nice color separation and clean enough definition- and there aren't any common colors in (say, for example) the clothes of the character you want and the background- but in a lot of cases you simply can't do it with just color keying. I've only really encountered one situation where I could pretty much use only color keying for compositing, and that was with Chiyo-chan in Osaka's dream about the alien pigtails when she's spinning and such- and even then I had to replace the black in her eyes from it being keyed out with the background...

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 11:42 pm

It's not extremely difficult, just painfully time consuming.

I think I edited nearly 700-800 frames in The Haunted Shipalone...

Pace is also an important thing. Just edit around 10-20 frames a day.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 1:39 am

rubyeye wrote:Frame:by:Frame is NOT practical.

That's how I did a lot of that stuff in "always"...frame by frame painting. You can get a lot done in a surprisingly short amount of time, actually -- there were times that I'd finish 250 frames in a couple hours.

It's tedious, but usually it's worth it.