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AH HA!
Instead of trying to generate a new section from scratch, I inverted the letter shaped mask in Photoshop for the reference frames. So when the content aware fill in After Effects generates a fill layer it will look much more seamless.
In both gifs I only used THREE reference frames compared to this 😄
PROGRESS!
Creating backgrounds and empty backdrops is a big, tedious part of crossover work. You don't want a character to roam around in the background when the focus should be on the character you actually want in the shot. Thankfully, AAE has this amazing effect called "Content-Aware Fill" that does a lot of the work for you. With some teamwork, you can make those backdrops faster!
And DONE!
They are not perfect (if I stare where the text/logo was I can see where it was removed), but considering this is my first time doing it, for the most part I'm happy with them.
I'm not going to lie the logo/text removal process was a real bitch. It was such a time consuming process. Sure I could've scaled up and cropped the text and logos out, but why not challenge myself? While these gifs look basic, the time spent on them was a valuable learning experience that I will take with me when editing work videos.
I'll post the episode recap with the above gifs over at my fandom account @hellostickerdoodle . I should be done with everything by tomorrow. Posts will be here: The Curse: Wedding Shenanigans | The Curse Continues
And now I need to sleep :)
Oh
my
god
I am PSYCHED to try this out for editing cause holy shit, I hope this works as well as it seems to!
Green, meet mean machine. Planted now, but uprooted to serve. Bludgeoned to become fodder to blind building of the art bereavement that is capital. Washed in money. Drenched in rain. A natural cycle, unnaturally perverted for uncanny-valley-bringing visuals. Surface deep. Heck, paper has more depth than your thought. A tree didn’t mind that sacrifice, but this one is too much.
Using Adobe Photoshop’s Content-Aware Fill (Edit>Content-Aware Fill).
CONTENT-AWARE FILL IMG_3005
[DIGITAL ARTWORK, 2024]
‘Bespoke imagery, rasterised, sampled, scaled, repeated and replaced by Adobe Photoshop’s Content-Aware AI tool.’
IMAGE SOURCE: ‘IMG_3005.HEIC’ of rain-drenched rocks, Chalkwell.
TYPEFACES: ‘Kern Condensed Medium’ by Pizza Typefaces.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A portrait image of a repeated wet-look rock with Green shrubbery texture, with a Lumen Red square on the bottom left that reads “CONTENT-AWARE FILL, IMG_3005, HARRY VINCENT” in a condensed Sans-serif, on a Black background.
DAMNIT
You know what that means...
HA! HA!
Yes, all of this (content-aware fill, tracker and reference frames) to remove a logo for a gif that's going to be approximately five seconds long.
Hahaha.
Why am I so anal-retentive?
Not bad. If you zoom in on some of the frames you can see where the logo was removed, but it's a low res gif so...eh.
