In this week's project I decided to tackle masks, specifically a crossover of myself over myself in a video. I've always been fascinated with how it was done, but never took the time to find out how. After learning how the process was done in class I had to try it out.
First off, it was a lot harder than expected to make look right from the example shown in class. It took about as long as I thought it would, but the completed product was not what I had in mind. I think one of my problems in getting it matched and more real-looking was the lighting and camera choice. The light I shot the video in was lighter and my body cast shadows that I had to work around as well. I think in a darker environment I would have been able to get away with more.
About a quarter of the way through making my masks and essentially rotoscoping around my body I played it back and found I had made the mask too wide around my walking body, which made it look like I had a halo as I walked over my standing self. So I had to re-do everything I had already done. The rest went relatively as planned once I made the mask closer to my body, but as I started to tweak things after the main masks were set I got mixed results. I had to do some color correction to both video segments to make them blend better, but I was not able to make it perfect in places....lets just say it looks a lot better than it did before I played with the levels. I wanted to feather the mask's edges, but every time I did that it looked really funky when the two bodies went over each other. So I ended up sticking with very little feathering.
For the first attempt at masks I'm happy with it, definitely need more practice if I want to use this for practical uses to show to people, but hey, its a start.
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