Hello,
I have 3 live action shots with 3 different characters played by the same actor that was shot with a single camera
with the intention of combining them via "seamless" split screen into a wide shot.
You've seen this before where one actor plays multiple roles in the same frame (Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFoUWFmM-NU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr6eV4y0atg
Thankfully it was shot with a locked off camera but unfortunately they varied the angles a bit, so it's not as simple as just split screening the 3 shots to get them all in the same scene. By doing that there would be pretty noticeable seams at those points like a wall running into a table.
2 of the angles are close enough that I think with some reframing I can get those to match close enough that a simple split screen may work;
but the other angle is almost a 30 degree difference and the elements that all the shots share like a wall/table are a different perspective.
I almost imagine I may need to do something akin to those photo panoramas where they stitch multiple shots together (albeit this is with video) or maybe rototscoping/masking one character from their angle and insert it into the other shot?
Are there any tutorials one can recommend to tackle such a problem or if you have some general advice on how best to accomplish this?
Thank you
I have 3 live action shots with 3 different characters played by the same actor that was shot with a single camera
with the intention of combining them via "seamless" split screen into a wide shot.
You've seen this before where one actor plays multiple roles in the same frame (Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFoUWFmM-NU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr6eV4y0atg
Thankfully it was shot with a locked off camera but unfortunately they varied the angles a bit, so it's not as simple as just split screening the 3 shots to get them all in the same scene. By doing that there would be pretty noticeable seams at those points like a wall running into a table.
2 of the angles are close enough that I think with some reframing I can get those to match close enough that a simple split screen may work;
but the other angle is almost a 30 degree difference and the elements that all the shots share like a wall/table are a different perspective.
I almost imagine I may need to do something akin to those photo panoramas where they stitch multiple shots together (albeit this is with video) or maybe rototscoping/masking one character from their angle and insert it into the other shot?
Are there any tutorials one can recommend to tackle such a problem or if you have some general advice on how best to accomplish this?
Thank you
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