Another way could be to do a garbage roto of the staff, then use luma and color keying to create a matte of the white and red parts of the staff, then using that matte to cut it out of the footage. Painting a clean patch of the background and tracking it in is the most straightforward solution, and is going to take a lot of tracking, tweaking, positioning, and rotoscoping to get just right. Hi Alex! Glad you liked the tutorial, I’d love to see your result if you’re willing to share it!Īs for painting out the prop staff, there’s a couple different ways you could handle it. Right click the names of the tutorials to download the videos directly. Sound design – Vince Tennant (here’s a short video about my friend Vince!) Both the Trelbyfile and the PDF are in the zip file, and you can see how much it differs from the final scene. But this way you can see what went into getting the shots. It’s nothing amazing, and in fact, it’s not even a full page long. I’m posting the script for the shoot, as well. And if there’s anything specific you’d like me to cover in the future with Natron, please message me ! Download it HERE.Ĭheck out the intro video above, download Natron and the assets below, and let’s get compositing! Keep a notepad nearby, there’s lots of hotkeys to remember.

While not being a complex shot, it does involve many techniques that are very commonplace and useful in visual effects.Ĭheck out the scene we’ll be working on. In the world of visual effects, it was a pretty easy shot, and while working on it, I thought it would be a perfect introduction to compositing.

Occasionally I do some work on The Last Ship, and for season 3, episode 1 (see it at 1:55-2:08), I was tasked with putting a mural of one of the characters on a brick wall. I wanted to come up with a fun scene with some relatively standard compositing work, the kind of thing an artist at a professional studio is going to be doing all the time, and the TNT television show The Last Shipgave me the perfect opportunity. In fact, it’s similar enough that if you know one, you know the other. If you haven’t heard of Natron, it’s an open source compositing program very similar to Nuke. Finally, I’ve finished this up and I’m getting it out there! The first Natron tutorial for OpenVisualFX.

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