Compositing 2: Lesson 3

For lesson 3, we had to composite different aspects together to create one cohesive shot. First, we tracked footage in SynthEyes of a woman moving her head. Once the track was complete, we brought it into Nuke along with the other CG elements - the armor, the armor texture, scratches, dust, and a background. From there, our job was to comp everything together and color correct so that the shot flowed smoothly. I had a little bit of a hard time understanding certain aspects of the assignment, such as how to animate the light in the helmet. However, I was able to fairly quickly figure out the mistake and fix it. Overall, the scene is a little dark, but I am pretty happy with the final result. All of the assets were provided, I just put everything together.

Here is the tracking and the final movie.

Compositing 2: Lesson 2

The second assignment for Composting 2 was based in Nuke. We learned how to use Nuke's Motion Builder for this. I must say, this was more difficult than project 1 had been, mainly because of Motion Builder. I had a hard time lining up the points of the geometry correctly so that everything was in scale and proportion. Still, I am pretty happy with the overall result.

Here is the shot with the texture applied and with a simple checkered board applied.