This project is gonna be a collaboration with Gherardo, I had an idea and ask him if he wanted to collaborate with me.
The main idea is to record ourselves in front of a green screen and we would also replace our forearm with a robotic/futuristic arm. This project will have different techniques, and that’s what we wanted to do, a short video where we could show our work with a lot of techniques. Some of them are, green screen extraction, rotoscope, modelling, texturing, lighting and more, all of them combined to produce a nice shot for our reels.
For this project, we ask Dom to help us since he is the one that showed us how to use 3DE4 for the tracking process. He was happy to help and overview each one of the steps for this project.
The basic plan is:
- STEP 1: CAMERA MOVEMENT
- STEP 2: BACKGROUND/ENVIRONMENT
- STEP 3: DIFFERENT IDEAS EACH FOR THE BACKGROUND
- STEP 4: CHARACTER ACTING
- STEP 5: ANIMATIC IN 3D
When we are happy of every step we can start shooting the scene.
So the first step was the decision of the camera movement for the shot. For this, we created using Maya camera setups with different ideas.
After looking at them with Dom, we selected both cameras that we like the most and combine them together. This is the result of this combination.
First week of the project is quite simple and short, but is the first step and as important of the rest, this is the base of the project. I’m sure after a few weeks when we decide what background we use and other parts of the project, this could change just a bit, but the basic idea of this project is here now, and its a good start.
After each step, we have a meeting with Dom to supervise the work and give us the ok and more ideas on how to proceed. Now, as the plan is, the next step we are to work on the background style. We will see more on to the next post, but the basic idea we have is a futuristic/cyberpunk scene.