Big / Difficult project for a newbie – advice please

[Brian Berneker]

Thanks Kev…

You can take a look at this tutorial to see a more advanced method to create a virtual set. In this example they only had a few green screen shots to work with and the rest was artificial!

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/oneil_bill/3d_world.php

Brian

[Jeremy Allen]

Nice suggestion Brian… Good way to think creatively and see the solution from the other side of the fence. I think part of the art of doing all this stuff is figuring out the best way to work with what you have, and that seems like a great solution.

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[Brian Berneker]

Thanks Jeremy!

There is never just one way to do a creative project, otherwise they wouldn’t be creative would they? One of my favorite parts of watching tutorials isn’t so much learning the technique, but getting a feel for each teacher’s thinking style.

For example, Andrew Kramer takes a fairly laid back approach, working with extra layers and comps as necessary without worrying about it too much… gets explorative and experimental, tying in the loose ends later. Watching his tutes are like going along for an adventure.

Maltaanon, on the other hand, while he is equally fun and adventurous, seems to be challenge oriented and looks for interesting ways to tighten and optimize techniques for doing things, making the project file itself very tight and compact, elegant in its own way. He also seems to be a bit more of an expression junkie and that’s really cool too…

I guess personally I have similarity to both of these guys, but I’d say my signature is in finding a way to invert the problem and somehow isolate it to the simplest elements. I don’t always succeed to that end, but it’s part of the way I like to think of each project… and have fun too of course…

Best of luck to Kevin in finding his own personal style and techniques, and I’m looking forward to seeing what the final clip looks like!

Brian

[Kevin Dearing]

That’s awesome Brian! Thanks for pointing me to it..

I think I can actually make this thing happen. Just bought the DVD today so I’ll be able to rip it later tonight and at least check out the footage from the scene that I don’t really remember!

–KTFA