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Hot Potatoe :-: hype
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15 Jul 2008I am currently off of work, so I have no excuse to not enter! I'm psyched, this should be fun!
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17 Jul 2008Ok, I just got my idea for mine. Super simple, but should be fun. I'm not entirely sure how well it will cut in with everyone else's footage, especially without sound, but, oh well.
I'm a slave to my idea, so I have to do it. And you guys know I can't character animate diddly squat, so I have to do something I think I can do well.
Ok, I'm running to the end of my block to shoot some footage for it! -
17 Jul 2008looking forward to it sir!
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18 Jul 2008Ok, I'm underway! Hopefully I can carry through til the end!
I shot my footage yesterday. I had a few different shots to pick from, and I picked one I shot of an alley behind my apartment building. First I had to color correcting it. Raw footage is the blue one on the left, corrected is on the right. I think I forgot to set the correct white balance on my video camera, so it came out super blue.
Then I took it into Syntheyes and tracked it. I exported the data to both AE (for sky replacement) and to Max (for everything else).
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mechis 520 posts18 Jul 2008oooh... that makes me want to do a tracking one too. I don't know if I have time though! hmmm...
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21 Jul 2008Here's my first pass at the matchmove. The alley looks ok, but if you watch that foreground garage on the left, you'll see the track is off a bit. Maybe it's just the FOV or camera lens or something. I probably just need to sort something out in Syntheyes then re-export. But this may be good enough for what I have planned.
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21 Jul 2008Yea I'm noticing the track is sliding, but it's not like a jerky-sliding, it's more or less like an overall FOV problem or something...you might even be able to remedy it by just offsetting the position of the camera linearly over time.
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ALi 608 posts23 Jul 2008That made me feel
Nice job! 
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29 Jul 2008Ooooh!! This looks nice!! I wish I could track that well! Looking forward seeing what you come up with good Sir!
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08 Aug 2008
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08 Aug 2008OK, its almost 1am, and I have to call it quits for the night, even though I'm not done. My headache is mostly gone, though!
I tracked new footage, brought it into max, animated the ball, lit it, and rendered it out in a few passes. I comped it together, but as of right now, it has no roto work done, so the ball isn't really integrated into the scene, just laid overtop. Plus, I still want to add some particle smoke on the ground as it rolls by.
No need to extend the deadline anymore just for me, though. I don't want to hold things up (like I always do!) Hopefully I'll have it done by the time Tyson edits together the big video. I'm hoping I can finish it tomorrow after work, if not, then over the weekend.
Here's a screenshot.
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Gotmilk 228 posts08 Aug 2008Great work Hype and thank you for your update. I Cannot wait to see your final entry. In fact i cant wait to see all the entry´s strung together. -
08 Aug 2008thats sweet man ,,,,,,,,,,,now you have a week............but I need more time too. Iam going to need the week.
go man go.........this looks great man
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rrateme95 262 posts08 Aug 2008I can see it now in the headlines... "BIG RED BALL ATTACKS L.A." =D WE MUST SEE THE FINAL RESULT.... THE FATE OF HUMANITY DEPENDS ON IT... plus I wanna see what happens to the little fire hydrant in the screenshot =D -
09 Aug 2008Hey hype...looks like you put a lot of work into this one! I'm going to be making the combined-video near the end of the weekend, so hopefully you can get it in sometime before Sunday? Hopefully that's enough time
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10 Aug 2008Starting working when I got home tonight. Doing all the rotos for the things that should be in front of the ball. I'm using the technique where you track a white solid to the plate, then roto on the solid, so the tracking does most of the work for you. I used TrackerViz to get all the tracking nailed easily.
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10 Aug 2008Ok, here's the matte. I know it's not that interesting, but I like posting my progress.
http://www.mackdadd.com/CG/HotPotato/Ho ... tte_01.mov -
10 Aug 2008hey that looks like its coming along........... neat stuff hype.
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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts10 Aug 2008pretty good the car seems to jump a bit towards the end -
12 Aug 2008mine's coming tonight, i promise! I just need to add some particle stuff on the ground, and that won't take more than 1/2 an hour.
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12 Aug 2008Ok hopefully!!! We're just waiting on you, and then we'll get the compilated video together
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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts12 Aug 2008i love your work, i am itching to see the finals
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triplej96 181 posts26 Aug 2008Hey sean that looked really cool. Where can i watch the final entries?
I hope you plan on doing some sytheyes integration tutorials on your site someday. -
26 Aug 2008
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