[Chris Wood]

Thanks, I look forward to getting this shot done! And then it’s the next shot 🙁 Haha.. What have I gotten myself into?

[Chris Wood]

Yeah I did read that and found it quite helpful.

The trouble is that I’m getting a lot of boiling on the edge of the hills in the centre and on the right. My friend looked at the video and said that it looks like heat waves coming off the ground from a formula one race.

[Chris Wood]

Hi Ted, could I possibly have the settings you used for the Rotobrush? I’m having trouble getting a decent roto unfortunately.

Thanks.

[Chris Wood]

Due to my film being an adaptation of the source material, I kinda have to have this Standing Stone be about 6-7 feet high. I don’t think I’ll be able to place it behind the actor on that axis. I’ll keep in mind what you said about the shadows though, Danke.

[Chris Wood]

Nice one Ted (hope you don’t mind the use of the nickname)

I’m going to start again from scratch as I hadn’t used Rotobrush before, so I think I can get better results. I’m sure I did something wrong as it really is unnaturally sluggish once Rotobrush is turned on, there’s a purple dialogue box that says make sure something is turned off for the best results.. I don’t know..

Anyway, this is good for hand in, more or less. I’m just going to concentrate on the other shots.

However, the shadow. I can’t get it to look right. I’ve rendered out a shadow in Cinema 4D but its just making it look good is the problem. I can’t seem to mimic nature here. The natural shadow is quite sharp and it seems to mute the colours nicely. Any shadow I make just looks like a black mess on the screen, like a burn mark. I can’t make it look real 🙁

Thanks

[Chris Wood]

See I had a big college project that used this, and I had the same problem. My drummers cymbals reflected so much green screen I just had to scrap the entire thing.

My 2 cents is that you should try and keep the drums as far away from the screen as possible.

Other than that, if the camera is locked you can use feathered masks to cut out the cymbals from the footage, but then you’re looking at a mask for the Hi-hat, crash and ride, and however many times they get hit. Not fun!

[Chris Wood]

No way to edit -___-

https://vimeo.com/41211547

[Chris Wood]

Hi Declan,

Much Appreciated. I just roto’d the footage as is though.

A side effect, my AE now seems to be extremely unresponsive once I have Rotobrush applied. I don’t recall it being this sluggish before. It’s abnormally sluggish for my i5 Quad core, 8GB RAM machine.

Even with no other comps open and no other layers, just selecting the layer makes it go slow.

Here is my current progress.

I just need to soften the edges of the hills, add a nice shadow for the stone, make the background look more natural, then finally colour correct!

[Chris Wood]

Here’s the whole shot:

https://www.mediafire.com/?72u8v3yyveb44ho

It’s 137 frames.

Let me know if you have any suggestions. Thank you.

[Chris Wood]

I’ll give Fresnel a try then, thank you.

Yeah it’s just the main thing of trying to make the leaves look more real, that’s all.