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Setting up for Humpty

My final project is a half stop motion, half motion graphics/computer animation version of the child’s rhyme, Humpty Dumpty. It will feature a stop motion Humpty, and possible stop motion horses and men, composited with a computer generated background and world. The rhyme will be told with kinetic, animated text, and the entire image will [...]

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Adult Sparklers (particles)

For this particles test, I used a green screen and motion tracking on the stick combined with a particle emitter. I used some various glow effects to create the bright particles and some general color correction as well.

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Chroma Key

For this test, we had limited source footage to work with. The guest lecture was very interesting and helpful, but I think maybe we should have split it into two classes so we would have more time with the green screen. I may use green screen for my final project. This basically just shows the keying with some goofy effects thrown in.

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