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Making video look like CGI
I’m trying to work out a reletively easy way to composite live action video charachters into a CGI background without having the video look too out of place. I’d like to find a way to make the video look more like a high quality CGI model. I’ve had some success playing with contrast and using soften filters. Any suggestions?
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Sometimes people try to make their cgi look more like real video … !
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This isn’t easy at all. Applying filters to emulate your CGI components’ look can’t be very difficult although it will be terribly time-consuming. The real issue is physics. CGI tends to be ultra-real and video tends to merely look real. The “look” is not as important as the physics. CGI elements tend to have an unnatural fluidity and a physical presence that is compounded with interactions that are obviously fake or programmed. Stuff just doesn’t look right.
So you need to shoot your live people with careful direction. You need to light them with the same sources you’re using in your CGI. You need costumes and hair fixes that emulate the same drapery, reflectivity, and procedural movement algorithms in your CGI app.
bogiesan
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“I’ve had some success playing with contrast and using soften
filters.”This sounds like you are looking for a polygonal look. Tweak some cartoon plugins listed here. https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/50/856947#856947
Also, I don’t know how much you want real actors to move, fluid? Are they shot at the same fps as the cgi? Twixtor them out same framerate or you could try posterize effect 2 or 3 less fps then they were actually shot at. It would be very subtle, but interesting.
Finally, color correction and matching shadows helps a lot too.
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