Separation?

Aeis · Post by **Aeis** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:03 pm

Hi!

I'm starting this topic because I want to know if my understanding of this process is somewhat correct.

I viewed a vid created by silvermoon ("She's Just Oblivious") where, towards the end, a character from the series was somehow stripped of her initial background and added to another one.

I'm assuming that in order to accomplish this you have to import the frames of the scene containing the character that you want to cut out, into Photoshop and create a type of animated product by manually trimming out the character in each frame.

Am I correct? Or nowhere close to the real answer? ^^;

Thanks!
Aeis

Aeis · Post by **Aeis** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:05 pm

I'm sorry! The link of the vid is here.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:54 pm

Yeah, that's basically what you have to do.

Programs like After Effects can apply masks to video clips instead of still images, but you'll have to adjust the mask for each frame in which the character moves on the screen, so I can't see it really being that much easier.

Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 2:56 am

Scintilla wrote:... but you'll have to adjust the mask for each frame in which the character moves on the screen,...

Not necessarily. Sometimes it's enough to adjust the mask at the start and the end of the movement, the frames inbetween are calculated by the program. Unfortunatly this doesn't apply to the most anime, since usually only every second frame is animated.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:27 pm

i believe she used chroma keyer for that one specifically if i recall though