P R O J E C T :: Rotoscoping
This was the first assignment we had to do on our first class of 3rd sem of BETA year. We were given a short clip of a guy walking, entering the scene from left, walking in front of a wooden ladder and stops in the middle momentarily, before exiting the scene on the right. It was a green screen shot taken by our very own lecturer.
Our task was to clean the shot, edit the background with a still image using AE. Sounded easy enough? Haha! Holy goose it wasn't!
This assignment turns out to be one of the mostpatience-nerves wrecking-challenging ever! Why? Below are the list of all the 'whys' :
This assignment turns out to be one of the most
i. The talent (or the guy) in the shot, he was wearing a brown colored shirt.
ii. The guy's skin was almost as brown as his shirt.
iii. The wooden ladder that was in the shot, was made from wood. (brown)
iv. The clip of the shot that we had to work with was compressed and low quality.
Even though we were using AE CS4 where it should help in cleaning green screen shot as easily as editing it, but in this case, we had no other choice than to rotoscoped it frame by frame. I guess that was the whole point of this assignment; to rotoscope aside from learning to control one's patience that is! :D
Owh ya. My pc completely broke down right after this semester. Therefore, I could not salvage whatever works in the hardisks; including the original green screen shot. But, the good side of this unfortunate event was, I got myself a brand new pc and a flat screen complete with magic angle! So thanks god and thanks daddy!
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