Week 12

During week 12 I received the animation for my scenes from our animator, there were problems with the animation that I received:

This is the animation for scene 04 that was sent to me, when I placed it in the footage the lift off of the leg was too early.

This is the adjustment I did for the animation of scene 04.

This is the scene that was sent to me for Scene 05, and when I placed it in the footage, the leg arrived too fast and lifted off to fast as well, also the tip was doing a squish kind of animation, but the leg concept are from armor plating, so I had to change that animation for the leg as well because it would not make sense for an armor plating to squish like that when it moves.

After over and hour of trying to adjust the leg I was able to match the animation with the footage but I had a problem with rotoscoping the leg because a faint greyish outline of the edge of the leg was still showing and could only be fixed with rotoscoping.

So I went and researched more on how I can fix the rotoscope problem I was having for the leg.

"After Effects Tutorial: Learn How to Rotoscope in 6 minutes!!!" Collin Ross, Published on Oct, 19, 2017

I was able to find this video tutorial about rotoscoping, the video is not only about an after effects tutorial but it was also a breakdown of how rotoscoping is done in real life objects. I was able to fix the rotoscoping at the end of the day but there was still a faint outline of the leg in the footage, the cause of this is because the leg model was a bit too thin because I based it off from our first actress. from here on I tried multiple methods on trying to get rid of that faint outline, I tried masking the outline then animating it to follow the movement of the leg it worked out at the end but when the leg lifts off I could still see the faint outline and at this time I did not have enough time to fix the problem so I decide to cut the footage and have it until the foot lands on the ground and have a close up shot with that scene.

I also created the intro for our short film, I had this idea since our short film focuses a lot of sand, why won't why have the title then it disintegrates into sand and gets blow away through the air. So I researched and looked for tutorials in youtube.

"Text to Sand Transition - After Effects Tutorial (No Plugins)"

By Creation Effects, Published on May 30, 2017

I found this perfect tutorial for what I wanted to do for our title intro, the tutorial showed me how to turn text into sand or dust in after effects, and then have it blow away in the wind, and even not having plug ins in after effects.

After watching and studying the tutorial this is the title intro that I was able to achieve for our short film: