Compositing For Animation

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Final Compositing Video

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Putting together my final video

-Once I had finished compositing my animations and were happy with how it all looked, I brought them into After Effects and began putting them together. I also added in my sound effects adjusting the levels so it is all coherent to the clips.

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Robot fishing animation.

-Again with this animation I refined the paint colour as it was not staying in parts of the bodies outline, giving a messy look to the final animation that I didn’t want. I also again animated the eye adding in an eyelid to express where the robot is looking and to also blink to give a more realistic outcome

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Robot yoyo scene

-This is my final composited shot of my yo-yo animation. I roto’ed around the building to make sure the robot sat well , along with making sure it was also behind the lamp-post just in front of its leg. I also made sure the paint work on the animation was neat and not spilling over the lines to give it a more professional look.

-I also made sure to add animation to the eye so it looks like the robot is following the yo-yo and blinking to give a more realistic outcome.

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Finding sound

-I wanted to find ambient sound to put over my videos, as most of the sound recorded with the footage had talking over it or noise from the wind. I mainly used BBC sound effects to fine ambient sounds from cities that could match the location of my clips. I also found little sound effects that sound robotic so I could add them into my videos to add a bit of character to the animations.

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Scrapped work

-I tried adding in my orange colour that I drew in Photoshop onto my robot, however the framing was all off and not matter how much I changed the frame rate I couldn’t seem to match the timing. I’ve decided to scrap this approach as it will take too long to go back into Photoshop and re-adjust the 300+ frames  to then try and sort out in Nuke.

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Composited robot walk scene

-I managed to bring in my 3D robot and roto out certain parts like the lamp-post and the guy on the left to make it blend into the scene well. I also added my other robot so that they can wave to each other and cut between scenes when I put all my shots together.

-I’m also drawing over the top of my 3D robot in Photoshop to add some of the orange colour I have designed with all my robots.

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Rotoing

-In the scene where my 3D robot is walking down a street I have to roto round the lamp-post so he goes behind it and I also have to roto around the man walking on the left so the robots shadow doesn’t effect him too much. This particular rotoing took a while to do as he was in the scene for around 150 frames and I had to make sure the roto followed his movement. 

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Metro train render 2

-I ended up adding in my 2D robot into my metro animation with Nuke. I also added a copy of the train to look like another carriage and make it look more realistic. I might just refine elements a little further and extend the time to 8 seconds before I bring it into my final video

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Exporting out animations

-As I’ve been finishing my 2D animations in Photoshop I have began exporting them out to put in my scenes. At first I had trouble getting rid of the background to make it work in Nuke, but thanks to Nicks help I sorted out the alpha channel so it could then work with the premult in Nuke.

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Metro train render test

-I also composited my metro train into my scene. I had to roto the bridge so the train would sit behind the bridge properly. Again I will adjust some parts of the animation and colouring to make it blend more into the scene, which I can then add my 2D robot over the top.

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Rendered robot test

-I composited my 3D robot into my scene to see what it looked like. I like the outcome but I want to work on the footing better as the feet sinks into the floor a little and I’ll sort the shadow as well so it bounces up the wall.

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Metro model

-For one of my compositing scenes I wanted to make a model of a metro train that I would put a 2D hand drawn robot on top, in the instance that my character is travelling somewhere.

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Animation walk through

-This is a clip of the process of my yo-yo animation that I have created in Photoshop.

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Creating hand-drawn 2D animation

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Animating

-I imported my camera and scene from Nuke into Maya as an Alembic cache, so when I was animating I would know what position and angle I would be working with.

-Whilst animating I struggled a little with getting the position of the robot right to match the angle of the road so his feet were landing on it properly and weren’t sliding around.

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Rigging and texturing

-After modelling my robot I used advanced skeleton to rig my robot, which I had to weight paint to keep certain joints locked and prevent from getting distorted while animating.