Motion Tracking and Animation with 3D

I went ahead and chose a clip of Littlefield House with a swift camera movement of the sky. After using MatchMover, I tracked my previously made model of a robot and animated it flying across and toward the screen. In After Effects I had to do a little bit of additional compositing, but added some spark particles to make it seem that the robot has a little more life in his fly movement.

Final Project 1st Post

Pitch/Proposal:

For my final project I had the idea to do a parody of SportsCenter's Top 10. SportsCenter compiles the Top 10 plays of the day/week into a segment. I would like to do a similar segment but shoot it all on greenscreen and make it totally ridiculous and over the top. It will include explosions, smoke, fire, particles. I would also include titles and animated transitions between each of the plays. The idea also is for each play to get exponentially over the top as well.

Assets:
Matte Backgrounds - Multiple Angles
Images/Location Footage
-Soccer - Location
-Basketball - Images
-Boxing Ring - Images
-Golf - Footage/Images
-Football Stadium - Images
-Tennis - Images/Footage
-Wrestling Ring - Images
-Martial Arts Ring - Images

I will post storyboards and images as soon as they are all ready and compiled.

Schedule:
Week 1 - Preproduction/ compile images
Week 2 - Greenscreen shoot
Week 3 - Key footage and begin editing
Week 4 - Titles, Sound, Polish, Render

Shapes, Masks, and Mattes

I used some paint effects and animated some hands to fit what was being painted on the canvas. Using masks I animated it so it looked like what was being painted appeared on the canvas gradually. I had to mask out the curtain animation as well so that it showed the canvases behind it. With Photoshop I was able to edit and give a sketch and paint style for the images I used.

Greenscreen

I used a couple different clips to key out and made a weird jungle music video. I used an optical flare, turbulent displacement, turbulent noise to help make a teleportation effect for the wizard character. Used advanced lightning and glow so it looks like I am summoning multiple dancing Bens with my lightning. Motion tracking was also used and I had to use some masks to keep some of the effects contained.