Jumping Animation : Rotoscope (Kind of)

 In today's session, we learned a little bit more about masks and how to animate them. The term used to describe this is Rotoscope. 

First, we worked on last week's project until the material was ready to be distributed. After that, we got the material. We also discussed videography and watched one short film titled neighbors which was related to the 2nd world war in which 2 neighbors starts fighting over a flower and destroy each other's houses, family, and ultimately themselves. 

The film

We were given a task to Animate something like that in which we had to some between frames of a video to give the subject a stop motion and flying-like feel. 

We were intentionally provided imperfect footage so we can learn something that commercial editors don't always get desired materials but we have to learn how to improve them so they can be used. In our footage, the green screen set was not sufficiently lighted so after removing it we were having some noise or grains of it. We had to mask our character after cutting the needed parts from footage to create the animation. Then we made a mask around our subject at the first frame and then played around with ultra key settings so we can get a green color matte in back ground. Then we made a mask around that subject and animated it on different frames. When we were going to another clip we copy-pasted all attributes of previous footage to get mask and keying without wasting our time. The process was monotonous and long we had to look out for each and every corner to get a clean photo that matches the background. We also used mask feather to get blending to look in the mask. 

To finish off we added background and tweaked a little bit and improved our masks where they needed to be improved.