Topic: Roto Help Requested - Breakdown at 238 Hypatia
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Roto Help Requested - Breakdown at 238 Hypatia
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- Beeg
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Re: Roto Help Requested - Breakdown at 238 Hypatia
Why... is it black on black? Wouldn't it be easier to reshoot?
- Teague
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- Boter
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Beeg, I shot the movie on black which worked for 98% of the shots. It's one I kind of wish had shot it on green screen, but getting the actor again for the shot would be unfeasible.
Teague, there's decent separation once you shove some heavy levels correction on it. Unfortunately my After Effects is CS3 so I can't give roto brush a shot or try anything more discerning than Keylight, which doesn't like non-chroma keying. I may try to give it another go.
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- Regan
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Doffing my cap at the interactinve lighting
The difficult second album Regan
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Hmm, I’ll take yer word for it.
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Regan, thank you kindly 
I did it in a couple other shots of the movie but wish I'd done it a bit more.
Teague, thanks for the recommendation of breaking it up into different masks. I was thinking one huge shape for thirty seconds... and bobbing the head back and forth on its own is a lot simpler. Then an arm. Then the other arm. And so forth.
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Oh yeah, breaking it down is how you have to do it to keep your sanity. I'd volunteer a few years ago, when I still dabbled in AE, and actually had time.
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9 2021-11-30 10:11:54 (edited by drewjmore 2021-11-30 10:14:43)
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Shot submitted for preliminary approval. ;-)
Having shot a lot of run-and-gun no-budget stuff of my own, I understand how we cause ourselves these problems. On paper, the pure black background could be crushed and just blend-mode comp'ed, no keying or roto, super easy. In this case the subject was also barely-lit, so there was too much #0000 that needed to be opaque. The lesson, similar to day-for-night shooting, is light your subject just enough to keep the whites from blowing out and plan to color correct it for darkness in post. Exposing to achieve the interactive lighting might have thrown the baby out with the bathwater.
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