Animation into the real world
 

Hi everyone!

I´m pretty new to Lightwave but I have one question for you...

How do they edit the movies where they first shoot the real actors and then paste the animated actor into the shoot?

Hope you understand what I mean, like in Lord of the Rings - Two towers where they wrestles against Gollum...
(I don´t try to make such a sean but a bit simpler..)

Which program do the use?

For example I create a animation in Lightwave with a flying bee and then i film something inte a .avi-file.. How do I put the bee into the complete sequense?
Two layers??


Thanks in advance

For sure you will find better answer than mine, but here is what I know.

- In my point of view. will be easier for me to have the real footage shot first and than you create the animation.
- Which program they use I don't know but I have Premiere that can do it too.
- All real shots should use Chromakey color in the background if you want to add the reel shots over the animation. Or the Animation with Chromakey color in the background if you want to add the animation over the real shots.
- Use Premiere to apply the Chromakey over the color you choose and have it on the top layer.

But how?
 

Could you please describe this a little bit further?

Lets say that I make a test.avi -file where I shoot my living room with my Web Cam...
Then I create a animation animation in Lightwave where fly is flying around. (when I render the output .avi-file gets a black background where the fly i flying)

Then I import these two .avi-files into Premier and what now??
How do I put these scens together?

Didn´t understand everything you said about that color that I must use...


Hope you don´t think I´m to dumb.... =)

Thank you for your answer

Usually when chroma keying, you'll render with a very pure and bright blue or green background (although any colour that won't clash with the stuff you want to keep will do), so change the background colour on your Lightwave render.

Next, once you've got both clips into Premiere, you'll simply put your background plate into the video1 track, your animated overlay into the video2 track above it. Now, right click the video2 track and select Video Options\Transparency from the popup menu. From here, set a Key Type of Chroma, use the colour picker to select your keyed out colour and tweak the rest of the settings to taste.

If performing the composite in this manner, remember to render out to a sequence of uncompressed stills (such as TIF or TGA) from Lightwave rather than an AVI otherwise you'll start to introduce compression artifcats which will ruin the composite.

It is also possible to perform this composite directly in Lightwave - Take your captured (real) video adn load it into Lightwave's Image Editor. Then, from the Scene/Compositing button set the background plate to be the original video.

Thanks
 

Thank you very much for your reply...


I´ll try this as soon as I can.

I´ll get back to you if I come up with some more questions about this...

good to know English..... You've no idea how much I NV you.....

I wouldn't get too envious. English is pretty much the only language I have (apart from a few isolated words and phrases in French or German - and I mean isolated)...