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matte painting looks static
Hello all, my first post to this forum (long time lurker though) 🙂
My question is this:
A friend and I are working on a small hobby/scifi project.
We want to combine 2 shots: our live action with actors AND a matte painting my friend made in Photoshop. Combining the two in Premiere is no problem. It looks ok I guess, but there is something wrong with the matte painting: it looks static. I hope that makes sense (English is not my first language).
Normally, a matte painting is a glass painting, that is filmed with a filmcamera at 24 fps. But ours, is of course a computer drawing. So, it appears as a still. It looks like you pushed the pause button on your DVD.
Is there any way to make it look like it was filmed? I tried panning and zooming, to give it the illusion of movement, but that just looks like you zoom in on a still frame. I gave it a bit film grain and noise, but that doesn’t work either.
We where thinking of printing the picture on big paper, and filming it, but that would look like crap 🙂
Thanks, and I hope it makes sense!
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4 Replies
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I ran into this youtube tutorial yesterday. It might or might not be of help but could give you some ideas.
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You’ll need to comp and blend the different layers in. Add some grain. Maybe add some lens blur to fake depth of field.
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All of the above a good suggestions.
The other thing you are battling against is the reality that you know it is a still. Others may not see it the way you do.
With that said, various techniques to help “sell” the shot have the potential to make it more realistic. Movement/action in background, inserts in windows, etc.
System:
Dell Precision T7600 (x2)
Win 7 64-bit
32GB RAM
Adobe CC 2015.02 (as of 6/2016)
256GB SSD system drive
4 internal media drives RAID 5
Typically cutting short form from HD MP4 and P2 MXF. -
Thanks guys.
I’ll try experimenting with grain and add some pan/zoom.
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