Keying test

Ok, so again I have been realy busy with linking the movement of the camera, which moves through a window to connect to an 3d enviroment. I will later post some videos of what i have acomplised already.

This video here was a test to see how easy it will be to key out the green, from the footage and also to creat a realistic shadows for the characters. As this was a test i quickly keyed out the green and duplicated the footage, orientated it to create the shadow. I understand that the background is not sized correctly. The reason for this is that i will not be using a flat 2D image. Instead I will be using 3D texturing, such as a bump map, to hopefully create the illusion of the people actually standing on a loose ground floor. Also I colour corrected the compostion just to see if the video works well if to be linked with crisis looking out of the window.

Here is the keying test:


Keying test from Daniel Chirwa on Vimeo.

My next step is to track the the green screen footage to an 3d enviroment, as this will be linked to the court yard house and crisis look out of the window shots.

Rotoscoping & Relection research

Ok here's a photo of crisis looking outside of the window. I have put a city background just to show the roto has worked and make it feel as though as it is real. For my final shot for this scene i will not be using the background picture as seen here.



The reflection research









This is an close up shot of the reflection that is underneath my arm.

Window Shot & City view research

Test 2D flying through the window from Daniel Chirwa on Vimeo.

City view reseach

House development & lighting research

I have actually been working hard and had no time in putting up the process in creating a camera projected house.

Here is the original picture, which I took from the start of the music video.



From this picture the next step was to manually place a 3D camera into the exact same position for when the photo was taken. By doing this process you receive the right dimensions for each of the building. Obviously there are some buildings that may not have a straight edge. In my case I slightly moved some of the points to match the model to the picture.

Here is a screenshot of the building a 3D scene from a photograph.



As you can see from the picture above the house roof is slanted slightly. This is what I had to change, as this house seems to be old and deformed.

Here is screen shot of the photograph being projected onto the 3D model as a texture.





As you can see I have added some bump map (displacement map) on to the texture to really make the building come to life and look realistic. I have had some problems with the displacement map as there is not enough information for the rock walls to stand out. In this case I will have to matt paint of where I would want the rocks in the wall to stand out. Hopefully should be done soon and make the scene look more realistic.

Lighting research

I conduct some research into how a moonlight scene would be lit. Here some artists and movies where they show the contrast between light and dark.



Artist view of a dark moonlight scene



Schaeffer Wyeth moonlight painting



Taken from the film Noir



Taken from the film Noir

Previs

I have decided to create a previs for my main effect shot, as this will allow me to plan each shot easily, think about the camera movement within the sequence and also think about timing of each shot. This effect shot is going to be constructed, by implementing different types of media and techniques. This particular shot will contain live action footage and 3D surroundings.

Here is a video of my effects previs:


Previs from Daniel Chirwa on Vimeo.

So the idea of this shot is that the camera travel’s out of the window tilting upwards to capture a moonlight shot. Then the camera pans and tilts downwards past a court yard house to see some reporters taking photograph.

To get the feeling of the how this shot will consist within the video and the music. I have created another previs but containing some of the videos footage and the music of Crisis.


previs with sound from Daniel Chirwa on Vimeo.

Next I will be showing the development if the building the 3D surrounding that are going to be shown in this sequence.

Paris Map

Sorry I have been away for so long. I have been working on my major shot of a camera flying through a window and tilting downward to see some reporters taking photographs. But having problems with getting the reporters footage so.... i have reverted into make a motion graphics 'Map' scene, so I do not waste time in waiting for the footage.

Away here it is:


Map Shot from Daniel Chirwa on Vimeo.


This will be placed where crisis says:

"You and I on a honey moon off to Paris, a perfect life that never really happened"
I still believe that there needs to be more of an impact within this scene, but i really need to see this combined with my draft video to distinguish if it works.