This week I tried to finish the animation and the removal of the green screen.
The first thing I focused on was the button animation, so I had to make the button switch from the selection tool to the move tool. I had to make the button go in and out by using extrude. The hard part was making the textures switch. I came across this video on YouTube.
This is how the texture of the toolbar moves, it jumps from one face to another.
When I was editing the texture of the move tool, I thought it would be nice to also add animation for the Lego man’s face when the character is moving around. So I found an image on Google with the different reactions of the Lego man’s face. Then I took a screenshot of what I wanted to use.
I wanted to do something when the character was walking close to the Lego. I thought that the Lego could wave his hand to the character and make this hand move when the character moves around, and this is how it looks with all the animations.
Next was to animate the move and the mouse, before doing this I had to remove the green screen of the video and animate it and later export the video to Nuke and then animate the move tool and the mouse according to the video.
When we shot the green screen shot we took a clean plate, so it would be easy to remove the green screen.
When removing the green screen, I had to treat the alpha separately and then later merge it into the main plate, then I used the spill replace to divide the green screen and then merge multiple it to the main plate. I also added a bit of colour cartoon and motion blur and defocus.
To do the animation I had to use the transform tool and then move it and rotate the the image. When I did this I had a problem, the background was cropped, I tried different things but it didn’t work. So I asked Gonzalo for help.
That didn’t stop me I exported that to EXR and then added it in Maya and started the animation with it.
The goal for the next week is to render out all the models with all the passes and try to fix the green screen problem.
Interactive Media High Tech High School (2021). Creating 2D Animated Textures in Maya (online). Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QVI8HbWRA8&ab_channel=InteractiveMediaHighTechHighSchool [Accessed 23th November 2023].