Making the digital video “Figure/Ground” Part 6: Just Digital Art (Hard) Work!
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
This week discusses my work on a sequence entitled “October 16”. More hospital scenes. The doctor in the picture below is my dentist in real life.
This blog entry is part of an ongoing series documenting the creation of my short film, “Figure/Ground”, about the death of my father, starring veteran actor Allan Kulakow. The finished film is a hybrid of photographic and painted imagery, created using Photoshop, After Effects and Final Cut Pro. The film uses many of the techniques discussed in my book “Digital Art Revolution”. I’ll document my techniques, approaches, decision process and frustrations in hopes that they’ll be of interest to digital artists and filmmakers.
He is also a photographer. I used some of his images in exercises in “Digital Art Revolution.”
No interesting tricks this time. Just hard work. This scene, below, is a long panoramic shot panning around all the people. I had to mask off every person in every frame twice before I got the edges to look natural with the green background.
Links to other entries about the making of Figure/Ground:
Digital Art Revolution Blog