Compositing 2

So, I've been watching Korra and guess what? I'm a nature bender! Look what I can do with wooden chopsticks!

Vimeo:https://vimeo.com/49362403

... and I guess I'm a homeless person? Or narcoleptic.

Hahaha! Ok, I'm a dork. 

Anyway, in Compositing 2 we had two main projects outside of a few small Nuke assignments. The first is a green screen composite, and the second is a match move. There were some parameters, but mostly, we were allowed to be very creative!

Here is my concept for my green screen project. I decided to go with the sleeping on the table idea, and regrettably scratched the hair curlers from my green screen shoot. 

Here's a still from my green screen footage. I wish I could have spent more time tweaking the lighting to match my background footage. 

And here's my quick storyboard for my match move project.

I took the footage into PFTrack to create a camera and ground plane to match it, then brought it into Maya. In Maya I modeled chopsticks (hahaha. difficult, right? I actually put some thought into it and modeled it with the wedge in the middle, and a seam where it breaks crookedly. But you can't tell, because it's too freaking small!) and animated them with lattices. Then I rendered it out with the camera and plane from PFTrack, moved it into Nuke to match the chopsticks, roto-ed a shadow on top of them, and comped in the chopstick's shadow pass. 

Compositing is pretty awesome. It'd be fun to do a whole series of faux magic tricks!

Programs used: Nuke, PFTrack, Photoshop, Maya