I have finished my part of the city brief, I have completed the animation and colouring of the animation.
I will now hand over this video to my group, where they will add the final things. The backgrounds and the sound effects. The background will be done in After Effects using the ‘keying’ effect to add them into the green screen. Then animate it to be scrolling in the background on the animation. They could also put in the sound effects in the timeline. The one other thing that needs to be done is the rain, there is a rain effect in After Effect as well so I expect that will be used
I have now completed a sketched version for our group city animation, I plan to now clean up the animation and add colour, we are then going to add the audio and backgrounds using after effects on Monday and Tuesday which gives us time then to make any alterations before the hand in on Thursday.
To catch up on missed workshops I did the green screen workshop myself, to do this I created an animation which had a green screen in the background. I decided to create the animation in a 3D animation program called Source Film Maker using a character from a game, Overwatch which belongs to Blizzard. I created the animation and then using After Effects added a background from the game as well, finally adding an explosion effect that I got from Youtube, I also got the explosion sound effect from the Youtube Audio Library. In After Effects I used the Keying effect, selecting the green screen in the background and adding the background image into the composition, doing this again for the explosion clip and placing in the timeline along with the sound effect. In total, the animation took 4 hours to make.
In industry green screen in vastly used in film and animation, a good example of the use of green screen in a film on a massive scale is in The Avengers, (Movieclips Extras, 2013). Using green screen to make the actual landscape of New York, projecting CGI on the green screen. Filming this in real life would have cost much more and taken a lot longer.
Movieclips Extras (2013) The Avengers Featurette – Industrial Light & Magic (2012) – Joss Whedon Movie HD . Available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji3IDa0sewk [accessed 20th October].
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