Thursday 31 March 2011

Compositing with Adobe After Effect



With the green screen layer added in Toon Boom Studio Pro, I easily keyed out the background with Keylight and composite the drawings onto the live footage of locations.


I then added shadows beneath the drawings to make them blend into the live action footage. Masks are then added around the characters to create a colour aura, which symbolises the sports bringing in colours to the city.


During the process of compositing, a problem is realised. Due to the frame rate of the camera, there are repeated frames in the live footage in After Effect, but these frames were somehow not repeated in Toon Boom Studio Pro. As a result, the animations do not match up with the live footage.


I solved this problem with After Effect's Time Remapping utility by increasing the length of all the frames on the animation, which are not repeated, in order to match them with the live footage.



All the other Olympics sports are done with the same method.

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