CG Live Action Compositing

[BlueZoneMX]

Nice work.

What software did you track the shot with?

[JBHMEDIA]

This is really awesome! How long did it take you to learn this?

JBH-FILMS

[MPenicka]

hard works, great

[monstemoralez]

OR

For a shot with a lot of crazy camera motion do a 3D camera matchmove, select a good frame you want, paint that matte and re-project it on to geometry you make for that one frame(deleting all camera animation to just the one frame), while the 3d matchmoved camera continues to move around like normal. so a single frame reprojected onto geometry saves countless hours of roto or paint. The geometry has to be in a perfect 3d worldspace.

I hope this helps!

[AtlantiXYL]

@monstemoralez can you show me a website about that. because, there are so many location I can shoot around my home, but trees really bothers me. when I watch transformer 2, the fight scene in the forest really makes me jealous, how they do it? when the camera is moving and the stuff behind it still looks right.

[monstemoralez]

@AtlantiXYL For a movie like transformers or any film, they usually roto with a lot of edge feathering/opacity, Sometimes they'll paint a stroke and animate the curve points of that stroke. It all depends what software you are using. They all have different tools and methods for approaching such an issue.

[AtlantiXYL]

@monstemoralez i cant not picture what you are saying, but kinda, what do you mean by paint a STROKE? is this a key word that i should do more research on?

[AtlantiXYL]

@monstemoralez I thing that I learned is that I have to match the FPS between the live action plate and the animation. other than that everything will stick in place. But!!!!!!! how can I track the sky? like if I want to view a jet fly over my head.

[AtlantiXYL]

let me send you a video, a premade animation. but imagine there will be a tree. I need to remove it.

[AtlantiXYL]

I got this question. I do people work with hair, grass, and trees, in live action plate, paint it or what? I find trouble doing trees. have hard time blocking them. masking them

[lldheerurocksll]

good work..

[goranification]

you made it awesome.

[truelionheart1]

one question how u genrate shadows ,in 3d software or in compositing software plaz ans ..how to gnrate shadow in live footage pllzz help

[HorsePowerAds]

You need to render them in a separate pass, then make sure you use an alpha channel that has the surfaces matted out. That way you'll get the shadows but you won't see the 3D surface it's being cast on. Make sure your 3D surface matches the real-world surface pretty closely.

You can see an example in my video: /watch?v=Y0DFnug6bBI

[yOmOmO1231]

one thing you could do is in 3ds max i know you can make a plane and use a matte/shadow material. then apply it to the plane. right click on the plane - object properties, click the checkbox [See through] and just add a light and you have a shadow. probably just attach it to under the "truck" and the shadow will follow

[goldenjabba]

That was truly superb. I am so enthralled, I am going to subscribe :D

[theAlijan]

what program did you use for motion tracking?

[Rulitop]

congratulaitons dude!! it looks great!!

[LinkinFreakPixar]

Awesome, man. I love cg stuff.  I'm always trying to learn new stuff about it.

[TVperson1]

Pretty good, but something about the car seems a bit fake.

[HeyItsSteve93]

Pretty sweet.

[SuperZero18]

I've been trying to get into full sail for a long time i just cant get the cash. its way expensive.

[gevorgjaan]

Cool man, do you go to school in LA?

[monstemoralez]

no LA, I graduated from Full Sail in Computer Animation last year.

[ryanrubi]

cool work man!!!

[whiteboinoob]

i go to drexel and the digital media program here is pretty decent. they teach you all you need to know, and then some. its just a tad pricey

[monstemoralez]

Cg was done in maya, rendered with Mental Ray. Composited in Shake.

[digitalfcm]

what did you use to track the live action? Buju? PF?

[monstemoralez]

I used SynthEyes 2007½

[cgreer127]

How is Full sail, ive been looking into film/art schools. i like Ithica and SCAD so far

[monstemoralez]

The Full Sail Computer Animation department is exploding right now. It's only getting better! SCAD is awesome as well, they teach Houdini. Call Full Sail and visit the school and see for yourself.

[cgreer127]

Thanks for the reply. Im trying for SCAD or Ithaca.

[ebwje]

I've heard of Full Sail and SCAD. I'm trying for the Academy of Art, but I'm doing to use SCAD as a backstop.

[malwiwo]

marcus make the truck?

[monstemoralez]

Marcus Scarsella sure did.