3D Tunnel

Today I have made a start on the 3D tunnel for my project. This will be the background for the video. I used Maya to create a simple 3D model of a rectangular tunnel and then textured it with images I created in Photoshop. I already new what images I wanted to use from my test footage I produced in semester 1.

The next thing I need to do is animate a camera to zoom out of the tunnel and then render out those frames, ready to go into After Effects for the final composit.

The images above are the textures I created in Photoshop

 

 



 

Screen shots of the model in Maya

More Rotoscoping!

Today I finally finished the effects on my model footage. I had to rotoscope a lot of the shots because I couldn't track all the underwear in every shot because occasionally they went out of shot, therefore making them impossible to track. Again it took ages, but I was willing to do it to produce the effect I wanted on every shot.

I have enjoyed working with this footage and creating all of the effects, but a lot of them are so time consuming and tedious that I am quite glad to be moving on to the next stage in the project, which is producing the 3D environment for the background plates.

3D Text

Today I created the 3D text for my video. I did this in 3D Studio Max. I created the words 'Fashion' and 'Style' and did each one in two colours so that I have options. It was really easy and only took 10 minutes.

Underwear- Alternative Method

Today I began thinking of other easy I could cover my models underwear, as it is clear that the clone stamp tool won't work, and I didn't want to leave it, partly because it doesn't look grew and partly for the sake of the modesty of my model. I used a sample of the 3D text to see how much of the area the text is going to cover, but it wasn't enough to cover on its own.

I therefore watched a few tutorials and found one about pixelating someones face in a shot. I watched this tutorial and used the same method to blur and add noise to the underwear areas of my shots. I really liked the effect and although you could still see she is wearing underwear, it isn't as apparent and exposing. I used the motion tracker to track the underwear and then used an alternative layer to mask and add the effects.

This technique won't work for a few of the shots because the underwear goes in and out of the shot and is therefore untrackable, so I think I may have to rotoscope these areas (oh goody!)

Im hoping to have this all done by the end of the week so that I can start the 3D elements to my project, and then I'm on the home stretch!

Rotoscoping and Clone Stamp tool

The rotoscoping is finished!! Finally!! I'm really glad to have gotten that out of the way and now can move on to more interesting aspects of my project. The next thing I need to do is remove the underwear on my model. When I tested this in the first semester I used the clone stamp tool, which worked to an extent. It produced good results on small areas such as bra straps, but didn't work well removing everything as I couldn't get the texture to look smooth, or anything like skin. I think I've picked a really difficult thing to do because skin is so many different shades that it is really awkward to try and replicate.

However, because it worked well on the small areas I decided I would still use the tool and would think of another technique to use on the areas that wouldn't work with the clone stamp. But it isn't as easy this time around, and I am struggling with removing the bra straps at the moment. I will persist with the tool for now but I may have to look into an alternative technique for this portion of the project.

Rotoscoping Day 2

Today I continued rotoscoping my shots for this project. I now only have 4 shots left to do, which I will do at the end of this week.

Rotoscoping

Today I started the rotoscoping section of my project. There are 14 shots to complete and I plan to do at least 3 shots per day to break the work up as it is quite mundane. 

I went through each shot frame by frame and masked the lips. Luckily my model didn't really move her lips during filming so I mainly had to just move the mask to follow her face as she moved up and down, although occasionally I had to reshape the mask. When I had finished every frame I duplicated the layer and put the black and white effect back on the top layer. I then used hue and saturation to change the colour of her lips to the vibrant pink/purple you see in the second image below. I then toggle held the keyframes and pre comp'ed the layers together to make one layer/comp.

I will repeat this process for all the layers.

Masking

Finished effect