Chris Smith
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I would first see if you need markers at all. I think people get over zealous sometimes with markers and put them every where when you could have done a track off the corner of a building or whatever.
Removing a small point from a shot usually doesn’t require a clean plate to replace it. Since it’s just a tiny point you can get away with murder. Since you’ll already have the tracking data for the shot, use that data to either have a clone tool spot ride over the point or as a small circle mask on a duplicate. On this duplicate add the ‘median’ filter. Which will mary the surrounding pixels over the point.
So in conclusion:
1. Don’t add any more points than you have to (even if that’s zero points).
2. Make the points very small. Better for the track and easier to hide.
3. Shouldn’t need a plate because you are fixing tiny points. Use cloning or median.
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Duplicate your footage. On the top layer add a circle mask around the player. Feather it A LOT. Then color correct this layer brighter, or the bottom footage darker or a taste of both.
Ten adjust the mask and feathering to taste till it looks natural to you.
BTW use this anytime you want to color correct parts of an image differently. Like darken skies, etc..
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What format are you rendering to? I don’t know Max but you have to save to a file format that supports Alpha in the first place. You can do IFF, TIFF, Targa, RLA, RPF, or what I and a lot of folks do is to Quicktime using the ‘animation codec’.
The gotcha is that sometimes there is no alpha tick button. For example when going to Quicktime animation you set your colors to ‘millions of colors+’. That ‘+’ means an extra channel is in there (alpha). Some 3D apps will let you specify whether your alpha is straight or premultiplied.
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The Bhodinut shaders were built into C4D a while back. So a lot of what you are using is Bhodinut.
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Was this done with paint strokes? It looks odd on the edges. Well, however it was done use the paint strokes or roto mask you made and use an inverted version for the track matte of a green solid.
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DOH! That’s right. I was confusing him with the Head of Visual Effects in Destiny’s Child. 🙂
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This wouldn’t happen to be THE John Knowles from ILM fame would it?
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no rules. I work with agency art directors who only like the classics. One guy I know does almost everything in Helvetica. Billboards, spots, magazine ads.
Reminds me of good pop music. Thousands of completely unique songs have been made with the same few basic chords.
Also reminds me of something I heard once: Rookie spreads himself too thin. A master has great command of the basics.
my thoughts on it.
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When I got my 20D and whatever the model of the SLR I had before it was, I got free software with it that controlled the camera. I loosely seem to remember that it would do timelapse. Like you said try Nikon or Canon.com (depending which cam).
Chris Smith
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