Time art - Project development

Testing 1 -

I filmed each part of  my video individually keeping the camera and the props in the same position.

I filmed it land scape and put 1/3 of the room on a different screen

I then tried to rotoscope round the movements and overlay them ( see video )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRta3198wNg&feature=youtu.be

How ever  the detail in the movement made it hard to mask round and looked bad.  To get the outlines perfect and to draw an animation on top it would take more time than i have  so i decided to try a different technique.


Testing 2 -

i thought it might be easier to go back to my original idea of  having  holes apear in people.

In this one i filmed the same person doing the same actions 3 times, starting by walking in a room, putting her phone down ( with a message appearing so the veiwer can see a date )  rubbing there face , washing there hands, brushing there teeth picking up the phone and then leaving again ( these way the video would loop easily )

i tried to put an image on a phone by making it 3d  to get it in the right position then used the corner pin to make sure it lined up correctly.  I then added 3d text to show the message on the screen and make it look like it was popping out of the phone.

I then used liquidfy to add bumbs and bulges to make it look like thing were bubbling up under her skin.

i then created a black solid and used an alpha matte to make it cut a hole out of her , how ever when tracking the motion it wouldnt recognise my tracking dot so dint move smoothly so i had to sit and move the solid frame by frame which was very time consuming and also didnt move smoothly.  I also could get  a shaddow to make it look like a hole and not just a blob on top of her  so i dint feel it looked as good as it should have

Over all i felt the video didnt look as good as i wanted to too so i am now going to go back to the office scene ( testing 1 )  and just green screen each movement, this will give it a cleaner outline so it will look nicer and wont be very time consuming, i am also going to get rid of the animation i said i wanted to do in my initial treatment so i can focus on getting the green screen right :)