Diedre: Character Rotation

We had a DragonFrame induction, in which I've made a character rotation of Diedre clay model. I made a mistake by uploading a really short video of it, and I think it'll be better if it loops for another few seconds. Final editing is done with After Effects by eliminating as much green as possible by adjusting Screen Matte's clip black and clip white under the Keylight special effects, and then adding a background to the composition. I've also been taught that masking can be used to clean up the video after adjusting the Screen Matte properties. 

It took a while to set up a greenscreen, so I decided to take a shot of the set up to appreciate the effort that has been put in, and also as a future reference if I'd like to use greenscreen for my animation in the future. The set up taken in the picture is not ideal, but it is the best that we could get considering that we are doing it in the AV Suite. Ideally, we should be doing this in a darkroom to get cosistency of lighting.

Zoomed-In Set Up

I sort of messed up Diedre's sandals which is the best part of her model because I tried to insert the green paper in between her feet. I am pretty upset about it, but having the green paper to cover up the board helps a lot in getting rid of the it while editting the final video on After Effects.

When setting up, it is important to eliminate shadow on the backdrop of the green screen in any possible ways. In the set up that we did, we screened a light to the green screen. The other two lights are screened to the character from the front and the back of it. The first is made lower than the latter. After everything is set, the lighting can be easily changed by adjusting the intensity of light and changing the placement of each light.

Side View of Green Screen Set Up

This is the picture of the whole set up that we used to make a stop motion animation by rotating our plasticine model. We used DragonFrame, which I think is a user friendly stop motion animation software. Before using it, we need to make sure that the camera is connected to the desktop. Afterwards, capturing the motion would be as easy as clicking the enter button on the number pad on the keyboard. In DragonFrame, we can also adjust the camera setting and use onion skin features, which is similar to the one in Photoshop.

Front View of Green Screen Set Up