Almost Done... Soooo tired...

Chuck Taylor (Rough Working Print) from Jonathan Welch on Vimeo.
New Working Print

I made a video of the Greenscreen process.

LED Keylight

Today I am working on my Demo reel, proposal, and presentation. I re-rendered the shot of Tuba-Goose approaching the door, but the file is too big for this site (uncompressed).

Putting together the pieces... Several shots are still rough.

I have recovered or recreated all of the missing material, and now I am trying to put together a draft with sound.

Many of the files on my jump drive are corrupt. I have been spending all night and all day trying to recover.

I am reanimating and composing the hard shot. Everything is on a different layer, so I have a lot more control over the composition, and I have the audio with the final shot loaded into the actual scene to help time the whole thing better.

The new hard shot video with rough sound. I should have started with the sound on this one. Trying to adapt the video footage and the animation to meet each-other was not productive. Now I am going to re do the animation to match this scene.

Trying to match the composite shots for the "hard shot" has lead to a lot of grief, so I re-shot with every element on a different layer (I got the idea from The Wachowski's Speed Racer, which I did a report on last semester in history of animation.). The new layers are much easier to manipulate and I don't have to worry about perfectly matching the edge of the desk, or anything being off in color, because the entire background, the goose and myself are on independent layers.

The Background is a high resolution still. I went with a Kubrick style single point perspective, but I have many angles, if I decide to change my mind.

The foreground was done with the retro-reflective green-screen. It worked very well because I could pull the camera back and reduce the shadow outline with minimal noise.

And I am still reanimating the goose for this shot... It has not been easy.

New improved camera rig

Another shot.

Updated Rough Draft

Progress as of 04/12/15 4 am

This shot has been very troublesome, and the timing is way off, but I have something to put in for now.

Another Shot Mixed

This was very hard. The shoe, was not actually there (it was shot in front of a green screen, and the goose with the tube was a computer generated model... My biggest problem tonight was the render farm. I was literally only getting 1 out of every 5 to 10 frames to render. Then I had to go back and delete the corrupt frames and re-render, over.. and over... and over...

RetroReflective Green Screen

The retro reflective material reflects light back at the source, do a green screen does not scatter a lot of green light around the room and on the subject. The down side is that if you are too close to the camera, the green light lights the subject and the shadow effects the screen.

Raw footage

A shot from a few feet from the camera

A shot close to the camera's perspective

The lighting setup I used to make the shots