For the final assessment we had to apply all the nodes and instruments we’ve learnt so far in the term. These included rotoscoping, colour grading, tracking, planar tracking and 2D clean-up. Having chosen this shot I took in a museum a while back, I planned out of what I wanted to clean up, what to replace and what to add.
Firstly, I denoised, then stabilized the shot. This stage was required to make sure that the tracking would be done easier and better. Then I cleaned away the picture on the left and a golden decoration on the middle wall.
Having found difficulty to grade the bits and create keys for animation of the grade node, I found that the order was important, i.e. placing the Grade node after FrameHold, before Premult.
Then I focused on replacing the art. Here the main area of problems created was the planar tracking as the pictures corners were moving randomly at few frames.
After completing the tracking and colour grading the paintings accordingly to the original shot, I found some footage of moving people that I wanted to implement inside my video. This is where I focused on the rotoscoping part of the assessment. Deciding to place the woman in the place where you would be able to see her in full size, I had to think about her shadow and how that would be formed given the lighting in the shot, arriving to the final stage by trial and error. Working on the roto of the main on the right-side was specifically tough for his hair, as there were a lot of baby hairs or space between hair at the top of the head. Overall, I like how he is facing the crowd and it makes it feel as if he is talking to the woman in front of him.