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General Category => General Anim8or Forum => Topic started by: Medieval Films on July 23, 2008, 12:00:15 pm

Title: live action combined with anim8or
Post by: Medieval Films on July 23, 2008, 12:00:15 pm
Is it possible to set a video that you made as a background on anim8or. Say i wanted to make a dragon that i fight one on one and it shows us both in the same scene.
Title: Re: live action combined with anim8or
Post by: Mactetra on July 23, 2008, 12:13:22 pm
well, as long as the camera is standing still, that is possible, render with a green or blue background, film yourself, or an area. then download or buy a greenscreen or bluescreen software :)
Title: Re: live action combined with anim8or
Post by: thecolclough on July 23, 2008, 05:04:56 pm
or if you've got a half-decent video editor that can handle alpha-channel compositing, then you could render the dragon with any colour background you like, then also render an alpha-channel video, and use that method to do the compositing.

depending on what sort of background you want, and/or if you want yourself to appear in front of the dragon on screen (ie. the dragon is between yourself and the background), then you might want to shoot yourself on blue/greenscreen, and do the background as a separate plate, as per the attached picture.  obviously, that'd be more complicated, but it would allow for more interaction between yourself and the CG character.  ;D

- colclough
Title: Re: live action combined with anim8or
Post by: yetipenguin on July 27, 2008, 06:36:41 am
nice drawing  ;D
Title: Re: live action combined with anim8or
Post by: glorfon on July 27, 2008, 06:57:49 pm
Where can I get a green screening program for windows? Preferably free.