Anim on the first sequence

Matching the anim + base MOV

With After Effects;

1. Removed the green screen with mask.

2. Applied "Roughten edges" to the animation to soften the jagginess created after the separation from the green screen.

3. Color corrected the animation to match with the bluish base movie.

Animation sequence 002

The animation to be matched in the below image.

Animation sequence 001

The animation will be later attached to the image below.

Animating with green screen

I have animated the boxes with green screen in order for me to later remove unwanted background with minimum pain.

As this is the first time I tried to create an AR movie, it took me a significant amount of time and a 3D Max expert support to complete the below process;

1. Modeling an opened book in 3D max with exact measurement of the Moleskine notebook I used.

2. Matching the notebook angle and the camera angle in order to place the 3D animation later in the similar manner in which I have tried during my previous projection mapping project.

3. Animating boxes in the modeled notebook.

4. Rendering and exporting the 3D video with previously fixed the camera angle.

5. Matching the original base movie and the 3D animation in After Effect.

Flying boxes

The basic ideas of how I would like to animate boxes on the notebook in the Virtual Pop-up Book Base MOV Reshoot 001 that I have previously shot.

Base MOV Reshoot 003

Base MOV Reshoot 002

Base MOV Reshoot 001

Reshoot light source

Reshoot with my muse

Yuri Endo 2011

Thanks to my last shoot and the revised storyboard, I felt as though I was able to get better shots this time. Stay tuned for the new footage and animation.

The art of storyboarding

Storyboarding instruction by David Hall

It's absolutely unfortunate that I had never had a proper storyboarding education during my film school years. Following the advice, I would definitely give SketchBook pro + Wacom a try next time to refine my skill.

Re-shoot storyboard/shot list

Animation

The animation inside the book would be as minimalistic as possible; various boxes changing shapes and patterns.

I've succeeded in importing image sequences and creating the image based lighting with stitched light source images. However the movie is not playing correctly. The "Munny" nightmare once again...

Base MOV 002

Base MOV 001

Due to the technical difficulty ( my DSLR started misbehaving again), I missed some crucial shots. As the captured images are also lacking depth on the whole, I'm going to re-shoot it this week.

Light source

New location

Yuri Endo 2011

After a long contemplation, I have decided to go back to my initial plan rather than building my own set and working on the goth piñata. I will be placing a girl in the location pictured above and have her flip the blank Moleskin note book.

New prop

Goth piñata modeling

Yuri Endo 2011

This looks like a dog rather than a donkey...

Set mock-up 001

Puppet + piñata quick storyboard

New story: Goth Piñata Revolts