Still progressing with my blob idea. I wanted to experiment with projecting a still image into a 3D environment and it seems to be going well so far.
I've basically I've been through these stages in the last week or so:
Taken a number of stills and movie footage of a coffee cup in the situation, I then broke this up into 4 parts, the cup, railing, foreground and background.
Added a few more buildings into the background and edited layers in photoshop so some of the background layers had the foreground elements removed to allow for perspective camera movement effects. Placed the main image into the background of C4D and recreated the scene using simple shapes.
Used Projectionman in C4D to lock off a camera looking at each element with psd file projected frontally of each bit. From this I was able to set up a short 2 second animated scene of the camera pulling backwards. The Blog will then be placed inside of the cup.
Finished off the tracking of the eyeballs to match the morphs of the blob stretching
Compete together a fake city from shots taken around Newcastle and Brisbane (beautiful combination).
Duplicated and created a file to use to light the scene in C4D by bringing this in as a sky object. I created a brighter area in one spot to project light from one direction.
Started to play with some colour in the background. I don't want the scene to look like a bit of news footage it needs to look dramatic with over exaggerated colours in the background that match the character, this has meant colouring some of the sky and buildings. I think it's getting somewhere near to where I want it to be. With global illumination switched on the character is lit by the sky and surrounding building create a great effect on the surface of the skin and eyes.
Basically looking good so far. Next I need to:
A. Scene 2 - Set up the blob viewed inside the cup looking out and match the lighting effects
B. Set up the blob in the cup I created at the beginning of this entry looking into the cup and match the lighting effects.
C. Scene 3 - Match movie footage of the cup to all of the animation scenes.
D. Create the sound
I'm going to struggle to give this a time plan because I'm about to get stuck into the MTV brief.
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