Month: November 2022

For this week we had to work with 2.5D tracking so we could follow the area the poster was going while the camera was also panning around. This was quite the same technique as the tracking we did to the phone in an earlier class. There was a difference in this one by the pole going in front of the poster. So this class we kind of relearned the correct way of planar tracking and adding an image to this track. For the pole, we did a simple rotoscope and connected this to the planar tracking so the pole will follow the camera movement and still overlay the extra image we inserted in this video. I struggled a little with the planar tracker here, you can see this if you look closely at the bottom right corner of the added poster. You can see it moving differently from how it is supposed to look.

I have started to create my own composition for the hot air balloon festival assignment. I added different elements to see what would happen to the composition and to make it a bit more interesting. for now, I decided to go with the extra element of having sea animals in the sky. The idea of sea animals moving around in a different place than the sea is something I enjoy seeing very much. This idea started from the music video of Coldplay, in this video they have multiple sea animals going through the sky. It starts off with a sea turtle going through a subway station, and after that you see big whales going through the sky. I love the video for all its abnormalities and differences in sizes, see below images of these animals shown in the Coldplay Up & Up music video.

There is still a lot that I have to change, like the color is not matching with all the elements and I also want to add particles to the sea animals as they swim through the sky. The hot air balloons I use are the once I made during the Maya classes, everybody had to make one of these hot air balloons. I still plan on remaking this hot air balloon so I can look up better references and sketch my own hot air balloon. so looking at this image now I still have a lot to do to make is more like the way I want it to look.

This is the first sketch (layout) of how I want my hot air balloon festival to look. So the template is made out of 3 different sea animals swimming with the 3 hot air balloons in the sky. I also added an extra element in the back, this is a building that is supposed to get destroyed by the orca in the background. this is where I want to use the particles for to create a connection between the orca and the building. It is a video that I found that already had the building breaking now I only need to make it so the timing is right and recoiler it to fit the rest. also, the building looks a bit lonely by itself so I feel the need to add extra buildings so it will look more like a city.

For this week’s Nuke, we got some homework next to the hot air balloon festival. Again we had to rotoscope some areas in a video given to us. But rather than trying to correct every camera movement step by step, we got to use the planar tracking tool. We used this tool two times, First, we used it to cancel out the movements that the camera makes (as seen in the video) and after we rotoscope everything and put in the correct material, we put the movement back with a different baked planar tracker. I added my own Instagram to the phone, so whenever you press play you will see the person scrolling through my Instagram post.

This week we learned about coloring. We got shown different nodes in nuke that give you the ability to change certain colors in an image. As an assessment, we have to change the left image so that the plain and the background match the overall composition. I have used the Color correct node and the grade node to get the right airplane image. I still have to learn a lot about how to do this the way I would want to do this. for now, I feel like I just made the airplane and background darker to make them fit in with each other. It works but is missing a lot. So I really want to grow in this part of nuke.

In last week’s class, we learned how to rotoscope, for this week everybody had to have a finished rotoscope of the running man over the bridge. In this class we learned an extra step to rotoscoping, the rotoscope tracker: this is an easy way of rotoscoping a specific area of a video. This technique of rotoscoping is mainly used for larger areas that move simultaneously. So for one of this week’s assessments, we had to track the rotoscope of the bridge. For this, I made a few different tracks that connect to certain parts of the bridge. So just like the running man, this was not rotoscoped in one roto. This was a fairly easy assessment since the movement of the camera was not a large amount and we got introduced to the tracker rotoscope.

After the assessment of the running man over the bridge, we got introduced to the beginning of the hot air balloon festival. This will be an assessment that would combine with the hot air balloon we are making in Maya. For the beginning of this project, we started with what we have already learned. So we started with a rotoscope from the mountain, this is where we could put the hot air balloon both in front and behind the mountain.

During the Maya classes, we have been busy with creating a hot air balloon for this hot air balloon festival. The end result is the purple balloon shown in the image below, for me this balloon is still the first version since it is made while I hurried to follow the class. But looking at the rotoscope I have done for the mountain I think this will work very good in my hot air balloon festival.