[Jason Rouleau]

By Jitter I mean that the camera movement you see in the clip is created in post production.

[Jason Rouleau]

Yup, its confirmed!

Problem solved! THANKS! 🙂

[Jason Rouleau]

Those shots are actually a combination of :

– Locked off cameras with jitter and motion added in post
– Lots of rotoscoping
– Some greenscreen

Basically you film the actors who are to be cardboarded on a clean plate (no other actors in the shot) and they do their thing on a greenscreen. You take a snapshot of them from the same angle as the camera is in (hell, if its HD you could prolly even take a snapshot with the cam… the cardboard cutouts don’t need to be high-res)

You then produce the cardboard cutouts and place them on set. Before you shoot the scene with the actors and the carboard cutout, you make sure to record a clean plate.

You then film your scene with the actors picking up the cardboard cutout.

In post, you composite the live cardboard actors over the cardboard cutout and then blend them together whenever you make the transition from live action to cardboard action…

[Jason Rouleau]

Oh wow, didn’t think of the secret menu.

I THINK it may have solved my problems. I’m rendering as we speak, guess we’ll find out in a few 🙂

[Jason Rouleau]

Hmm, I dunno, insulting one of the board’s leaders isn’t really a good idea in my opinion.

But he is right, the subject has been covered a hundred times already.

[Jason Rouleau]

I think you can also use Adobe Illustrator to create vector paths.

Its all a matter of personnal taste

[Jason Rouleau]

I’ve had to do this for a 10 second shot.

What a pain it was! It was an overcast day and I had the exact same situation as Yoshi.

Basically what I did was I exported the entire shot as a .flm file, imported into Photoshop and colored the sky greenscreen green for every frame and then went and filled in every extra pixel by hand. The biggest issue I encountered were the fields… noticed after awhile that stuff wasn’t matching up and cause alot of jittering. So I fixed that with some well placed copy and pasting. After about 30-40 hours of work, my sky came out pretty well.

But, all in all, good luck mate. Its REALLY hard to do with a moving camera.

Jason