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Field render looks too corporate, frames too jittery – is there a third way?
I’m doing a very simple animation of some rotoscoped silhouettes and Illustrator vector graphics. They pan across the screen at a constant speed. Very simple so far. I’ve rendered out 4 test files – with motion blur on and off and with field render on and off. The field rendered footage looks ‘too’ smooth on the monitor – like a corporate video type of quality. The frame rendered stuff all jitters mostly around the vertical edges.
Is there some third way? I know later I’m going to apply grain, vary the lighting a little etc etc to give it a more filmic, cel-animated look, but the motion itself is the issue. Anybody know of any tricks…?
Maybe a Posterize time set to 24fps or a different shutter angle in the motion blur or something? I want it clean but old, filmic animation looking…
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Maybe try a tiny bit of gaussian blur on the edges? I did a very similar siloutte roto job the other week and some of the edges looked jittery and jagged – 0.1-0.2 pix gaussian pretty much sorted it. If your look is old filmic, it should be a tad blurred anyway, so maybe add more rather than less. Also, motion blur can make a bit of a mess on some roto shapes – wrongly interpreting it if the shapes is moving fast (probs not an issue for your proj) The only way I could fix it was to break the character (man jumping in the air in this case) into as many separate shapes as possible – breaking the arms at the elbow helped.
Good luck.
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