Hasta La Motion!

Hi, I posted this at cgtalk but I should’ve posted it here. My 3d skills go about as far as Sketchup so go easy on the jargon. 🙂 I’d like to know what would be involved in replacing an actor’s head with a Planet of the Apes kind of head, the kind of thing you couldn’t do with a mask (like a gorilla’s degree of prognathicity and a mouth, tongue, lips and teeth that work like they’re supposed to, mainly). From what I can gather you’d matchmove the camera (ideally you’d track the camera during filming) and use facial mocap performance to animate the ape head model. Right? Can anyone talk about this in more detail, maybe give a guess on man-hours per second for a typical shot (like dialog in a static medium shot), leaving out the time to create the model and render? Assuming you wanted to do a really top-notch job I mean. Guess on a budget wouldn’t hurt, even totally ball park would be nice.

TIA.

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Hi All-

I am keying a shot using primatte and it did an awesome job so far. But I am having trouble trying to get rid of sizzling edges due to Motion Blur.

I have attached an "edge blur" node and although that helps, i still have areas where there is sufficient sizzling and popping.

Anyone have any ideas to rid of the sizzling/popping edges?

Thanks!

As in the Title I wish to join in Life way College for VFX training in New Zealand.

Whats your opinion on that College.

course Joining : Diploma in Advanced 3D Animation.

Any Suggestions please.:o

Hi there guys. Just to start off, a tiny bit about myself. I’m 20 years old, live in the UK and am an ex university student. I studied at University for one year and dropped out, not for any negative reasons, I loved university life and would advise it to everyone (only if they asked, I’m not saying you’re wrong to not go) but the course I was in was poor, and I really didn’t enjoy it and didn’t want a job in any of the areas I was being taught in. I never see it as a waste because of the experience and because it’s led me to knowing what I actually want to do. I researched a lot on the internet, picked up various programme trials and fell in love with the thought of being in the VFX industry. I just love how creative it is, even though I’m not a great artist, I very much enjoy art itself.

I’m now living back at home and have a hell of a lot of free time. I saw the stickied thread on what programs to use which was very helpful, but I would love some guidance on what exactly I should be doing with my time.

I love the effects side of VFX, as in, creating realistic particle systems and the idea of incorporating them into live footage, but this is where I get a little stuck. I’m currently using Fusion and have enjoyed learning about it but, for what I want to achieve, what should I actually be doing?

Should I be recording my own footage, and trying to incorporate effects in to them? How is this usually done to create a realistic effect? would you normally create the particles within Fusion to use or another application? I looked on the Video Copilot website and the free tutorials there look pretty cool but after hearing a lot (although I know not all) people saying that for Film Nuke is the more generally used program so I wanted to stay away from AE but a lot of the things from that site (Video Copilot) are similar to the things I would like to achieve. (I’m obviously aware I don’t have Nuke but Fusion is quite similar no? So I’m hoping if needed I can make the transition). There doesn’t seem to be any tutorials on actually creating effects and putting them into a video so I just feel kind of stuck on what to do.

So basically, I’m just sat here, I really wanna dig into the program but also don’t want to be doing things that may not be neccessary for me. Where should I go from here?

I appreciate anyone who’s actually read through that so thanks in advance.