THE FUTURISTS' GARDEN ANIMATION.

Here is my completed animation for my major project!

Render Layers Composited Test

I wanted to make sure I was achieving the right results before I set my scene to render so using my render layer stills I composited them into After Effects. Apart from a few minor issues which have been corrected since for the rendering as well as removing the foreground sculpture I am happy with the effect I am getting. I think the blur using the depth pass still needs some tweaking but I will finalise this properly for hand in.

Footage Narrowed Down

Having 25 pieces of footage was just too much so considering the garden sections I had created in the previous post I have narrowed 25 down to 12 pieces of footage that I could work with. Below are the ones I picked.

(Cut to 0-28 secs)

(Cut to 18-35 secs)

(Cut to 0-15 secs)

I have also kept footage 3, 6 and 12 as alternative options in case I find that some of these pieces are not working very well.

Collection of Stabilized Footage

All of my footage is now stabilized to get rid of any camera shake that was created from the handheld camera work. I have 25 different pieces of footage to pick from for my animation and being that the animation is to be between 1 and a half to 2 minutes I will need to cut down the amount of footage to the ones which seem most suitable for my work.

Adjusting Footage

Before I can use my footage for tracking or experimenting with layouts on top of it was important to see how it looked. Having checked my footage after filming I knew the camera shake from filming handheld footage needed to be adjusted and I had this big imperfection over the footage which could not be seen on the screen of the video camera but on the computer which by then was too late to try and get rid of.

Yesterday Jordan and I looked at fixing the camera shake which was pretty successful. However, the imperfection and the quality of the footage still seemed to be an issue until Phil reminded me that the actual imperfection and low quality will add to the truth of the Futurist's garden being there. So hooray for a happy accident!

Here is the original footage.

This is the footage with the warp stabilizer effect applied to it, it has really tidied up the camera shake.

Jordan did try to get rid of the imperfection on the camera using some masks and blur effects but this just seemed to lower the quality of the footage further. Here is the result of it though.

Turnaround: Plant 19

Turnaround: Plant 18

Turnaround: Plant 17

Turnaround: Plant 06

Turnaround: Plant 16

Turnaround: Plant 15

Turnaround: Plant 14

Turnaround: Plant 13

Turnaround: Plant 12

Turnaround: Plant 11

Turnaround: Plant 10

Turnaround: Plant 09

Turnaround: Plant 05

I'm not too sure what all the pink speckles in the background are on the textured pass so this is something to rectify during the major. Apart from that it is all looking fine.

Turnaround: Plant 04

Turnaround: Plant 08

Here is another turnaround showing the pipeline of my plants. This time its plant 08.