This week I had to complete the shooting of the plate and then start tracking the footage in 3dequalizer.
For the plate, I wanted an urban region. So Roos and I started walking around the college and we found a small football court. We thought that this would be the right place for the shot. The upside of shooting in the court is that no one will walk into the frame.
After taking around 15 to 20 takes I narrowed it down to 2 options A and B.
Option B saw the Tube in the background moving and the house gives a very urban feel.
Option A is what I chose because it shows different people walking around. Then Roos falls down the man on the right looks at her and it adds to the feel of the video to make it look like she is falling out of nowhere.
While shooting I also made sure that I captured 360 shots in different F-Stops so I could combine them into an HDRI and this will help me to light up the CG.
So I took all the images and then combined them in Photoshop to create an HDRI image, I had to fix the bottom part of the image because I was in the frame.
After the HDRI was ready I put it in Maya to see how the models looked and they looked pretty good.
The next step was to 3D track the footage, for this I used 3dequalizer and this took more time than I thought while I am updating this blog I am still working on this and hoping to finish it by the end of the day.
Dom had taught us how to use 3DE, But I forgot how to use it, we also didn’t have recordings of the classes. So I had to watch YouTube videos and refresh my memories.
For next week I am planning to add the camera tracking in Maya and see how things are working placing the models in the right place and start working on the animation of the Lego man and the move button.
vfxexpert (2022). 3DEqualizer – 3D Equalizer Tutorial Start To Finish | Camera Tracking in 3D Equalizer (online). Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8q2r24VwW4&ab_channel=vfxexpert [Accessed 20th October 2023].