Week 1 Day 4

Week 1 Day 4 of Studio project. Its been 4 days... and ive spent 48 hours in school, when will this end...

Today, I assisted in converting the files from quicktime to targa and tiff file formats, so that they can be imported into maya. However, there were many problems with the rendering, only two frames were rendered and they're in ".tmp" extension. I requested for Sirdhars's assistance and he could not solve the issue. In the end, The job was given to another person.

In addition, I assisted in the removal of the lens distortion issue faced in both shots. By using a node called, " lens distortion" in nuke X, I was able to distort the footage. However, It wasnt as easy as it seems because the distortion used in the image analysis function as well as the other functions in the node could not distort the footage correctly. Therefore , with the help of Mr. Pang, we saved a test image and did the distortion in photoshop which was much easier and accurate using the distorted image as reference, I was able to distort the footage correctly. I learnt that by reversing the distortion and using it to distort the cg instead, the footage will look more realistic.

Moreover, I did some composting in the the first shot, masking as well as the green screen removal. There were several problems faced especially with the chromakeying, which was done in nuke. most of the spill on the actor could not be removed. After several trial and error, I finally managed to removed the spill. However, the final footage looked really noisy.

In conclusion, today was a productive day as I did quite a lot of work.