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.