AT AT Afternoon

[sonnyboo]

So I found this short randomly
http://www.openfilm.com/videos/at-at-day-afternoon

And thought it was funny, clever, and kind of cool. I did however wonder how he did the FX. Was it 3D rendering? Was it stop motion?


An interesting answer came in the form of this video
http://www.openfilm.com/videos/making-of-at-at-day-afternoon

So some stop motion, but the rest is low-tech kick ass coolness of simple compositing and very basic rotoscope painting.

 

[Zensteve]

Heh, I wanted one of those so bad when I was younger.

Spoiler

...still do.

 

[bird]

That's adorable!

 

[sonnyboo]

That's adorable!

and so cleverly done! I am floored by the combination of techniques to achieve this simple but affective short.

 

[gooberman]

That was pretty fircken sweet. But i have some questions. What is rotoscoping and how can i use it. I have mocha and iv watched a few tutorials but im still confused.

 

[sonnyboo]

That was pretty fircken sweet. But i have some questions. What is rotoscoping and how can i use it. I have mocha and iv watched a few tutorials but im still confused.

Rotoscoping is the manual labor of adding or changing anything to each frame, one at a time. The name comes from the olden days when people would paint on actual film. Today the term is used to explain the craft done digitally.

In the 2nd video, you can see the director hand painting out the 2nd dog and making it a clean "plate", meaning empty shot where he can insert his animated replacement.

In After Effects and Photoshop, you can use something called the CLONE TOOL to select pixels from the surrounding area and basically erase things. In this case, the director rotoscoped out himself hand animating the toy. He took frames from after he walked out of frame to replace the areas where he was standing or sitting. Quite an ingenius little trick.

 

[gooberman]

Rotoscoping is the manual labor of adding or changing anything to each frame, one at a time. The name comes from the olden days when people would paint on actual film. Today the term is used to explain the craft done digitally.

In the 2nd video, you can see the director hand painting out the 2nd dog and making it a clean "plate", meaning empty shot where he can insert his animated replacement.

In After Effects and Photoshop, you can use something called the CLONE TOOL to select pixels from the surrounding area and basically erase things. In this case, the director rotoscoped out himself hand animating the toy. He took frames from after he walked out of frame to replace the areas where he was standing or sitting. Quite an ingenius little trick.

Thats pretty sweet. If you can do all this in after effects, whats the use of adobe mocha?

 

[gooberman]

Just found a great resource for mocha. http://www.imagineersystems.com/videos

 

[knightly]

Rotoscoping: http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/time_freeze/

 

[sonnyboo]

Thats pretty sweet. If you can do all this in after effects, whats the use of adobe mocha?

The 2 go hand in hand - Mocha is a MOTION TRACKING, so that you can more easily do effects to hand held shots.

 

[MarcusBonnick]

I really want to try something like this, His work is inspiring...

Have you seen the Iron baby and the Transformers animations there amazing!

 

[Murdock]

That was pretty cool