Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Rotoscope Line Test

So now that I know what I'm doing and how it's time to start some technical experiments/practices.

I recorded some footage from a first person perspective and I have to say this was harder than I imagined. It was very difficult to get the motion I wanted with the correct timing for the song.



After a few takes I went through them and trimmed down a take that I thought would work. One thing I have to note with this first attempt is that the footage I recorded is awfully noisy, this could simply be down to low light in my room in which case I'll redo it when there is daylight available through my window. Other causes could be the 10-20mm lens I was using or perhaps the settings. I will attempt more footage tomorrow during the brightest point and I will also use the kit lens to see if that's any better.

Here's what I came up with from this footage:



To composite this animation with the 3D room in After Effects, I will need to export with the Alpha channel selected meaning I need to block the colour in for the hand. In order to do this I need to make sure I'm connecting the lines whilst drawing out the frames because it's a huge hassle to go back and fill in the gaps on each frame so that the paint bucket tool can be used. I think that this actually looks quite good as it is so I think this is pretty close to how the rotoscoping will look in the final animation.

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