Smallville text placement - Matchmove

Old Smallville footage I found. I used it to place some 3D text on the road behind Clark.

I used Boujou to track the shot, then Cinema 4D for the text. Rendered out multipass layers, and brought it all together in After Effects.

This shot was rather hard to track because of the lens flare, not too mention that the footage was kinda low quality (divx).

The longest part of this was the rotoscoping. I had to roto Clark with multiple masks... (body, head, legs)

After spending hours on it, I realized I had Mocha, but I was almost finished, so I decided just finish it up manually.

Im pretty sure Mocha would have made things much easier.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• matchmove
• smallville
• after
• effects
• C4D
• cinema
• 4d
• cg
• 3d
• 2d
• fx
• run
• superman
• clark
• kent

[kimfotoswe]

this is strange, on the first clip ther is no sun and shadow when he run.

On the second clip the shadows falls to left and sun comes from the right.

Then back to clark, the sun comes from the back, and he also got a highlight and shadow in the face thats a strang way to put your light. Then when you zoom out clark has two shadows. One sun = one shadow.

just some reflections.

[ShepperdOneill]

@kimfotoswe That is not my lights. That is the lighting from the show. I did not do that. It was there already.

[ponkasss]

Awsome job! Do you have any tip for getting the object a bit more "blurry" or whatever to make it blend in better with the footage? The text looks way too crisp in my videos.. thanks!

[ShepperdOneill]

@ponkasss I usually add some noise and blur in After Effects to help it blend with the background better.

[ponkasss]

@ShepperdOneill So you export it without the "background" then into a separate layer in AE? Sry, I'm a total noob at this, just started playing tracking and C4D today :)

[ShepperdOneill]

@ponkasss Yes, you render the objects in separate passes (multipass) and then everything exports nicely over to AE. C4D even makes a nice .aec file for you.

[ShepperdOneill]

@ViPEdits Animating a spline mask around a person or object to cut them out, frame by frame. Watch this... /watch?v=lIXlppHOlRM&feature=c­hannel_video_title

[47craigt]

@ShepperdOneill Hi amazing work! I am to a total noob at this. However, really want to learn how to do this. Can you provide any martial on u tube etc that might be of help and that got you started?

[ATSproperty]

Awesome job, id like something similar on a residential street with a paragraph of words. Contact me

[sweetnotebook]

i miss this serie =(

[MaXingTien]

@kimfotoswe because, when they were filming, some of video takes were filmed in different day time.

[1996vitaliy]

can u make a tuturial?

[kimfotoswe]

@Bennmusicmaster Interesting that they do this kind of mistakes on a production like this..

[viewNHZ]

wow sick :) <3

[Bennmusicmaster]

@kimfotoswe completely right man..... now we know that movies are sometimes wrong

[GoPr0Cinema]

can you tell me how u get the text behind the guy?

[MaddyStudio]

amazing! smallville 4ever.