CC video.

this was a very informative piece. At the end I could not tell the difference in the graded shot.
Thanks
 
Since I am still "learning" After Effects ( what that really means is, it scares me.. and I close it as fast as I open it ;) ) I did the rotoscoping frame by frame in photoshop using my friends the Clone tool, and the "heal" tool (if that is the right name for it).

The horrible horrible memories of painting those frames.

If you look close enough, you can see the bushes are flipping out in the painted area, as I tried to re-construct them like I did the telephone pole. I had more success with the pole.

to quote a famous film..

"The horror... the horror..." :crybaby:
 
That's cool! Thanks for posting it. I enjoyed seeing the before and after shots. I agree that the rotoscoping was good. But I really liked the typewriter segment, i.e., the final matched shot and transition. Looks really great. How did you do the transition effect and in what program?
 
I'm not trying to be harsh, but I didn't think the paint out was very good. My eye went straight to the flicker and I think it would've even if I didn't know there was paint work there.

Painting in Photoshop is a brutal way to do it because you can't interactively flip through the sequence and it's more cumbersome to borrow from other frames. Everything will look fine when you step through it, but it falls apart in motion.

After Effects has a much improved paint module now, but Combustion is really a killer tool for paint work.
 
be harsh all you like..

it is about what people notice.. and I gaurentee you had I not pointed it out with a clip of this nature you wouldn't have said a thing about it.. so I did my job well enough.. 37 frames isn't enough to grab your attention..

I said it was a poor painting job anyways.. so rock on

:costumed-smiley-047 :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)
 
Honestly, I guarantee you I would've noticed, for several reasons. Even though it's only fraction of a second, the background is more in focus than the foreground. With the composition of the shot, the actor is looking in that direction as well. This makes your eye gravitate towards that area, even if it's only for a handful of frames. My reaction isn't too look at the plain looking shirt in the foreground.

Also, I'm a visual effects artist and so I'm used to spotting things like matte lines and rough paint outs even if they aren't expected.

But in general, even if people notice it, they probably wouldn't think twice about it. For future paint outs though, you're much better off taking a section of the frame and tracking it in rather than trying to clone over something larger than a wire. In this case, grabbing a patch of bushes from the left and tracking it over the guy (even if you track it by hand) would have been much less obvious. The paint work around the car is solid though, nothing stands out there!

I think it's great that you actually did something about the junk in the background in the first place though! It definitely makes the shot more about your character.

Also, for the couch shot, I would try to bring down the highlights on his shoulders, they definitely detract from the shot.
 
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