https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci Essay Padlet en-us 2018-11-27 21:15:20 UTC 2023-07-12 13:29:23 UTC hello@padlet.com egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/308544972 This video explains the full history of the creation of compositing to the modern day, possibly in the best detail as possible and a very good video to take note from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8aoUXjSfsI&t=1s ]]> 2018-11-27 21:21:58 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/308544972 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/308639253 This class student decided to record his entire lesson about rotoscoping and it goes on for four parts, starting with the Max Fleischer era.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=560YPnswmlg]]> 2018-11-28 06:21:45 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/308639253 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/308639476 Like the other video, this one also explains the history of rotoscoping, but really talking about the pros and cons while throwing in some sarcastic humour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyjuxSMK228]]> 2018-11-28 06:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/308639476 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/308639632 This short video on YouTube explains a very short history on rotoscoping, plus at the end the host talks about the pros and cons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xd-wcmqfp0]]> 2018-11-28 06:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/308639632 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/308639774 The second part of the rotoscoping class talks about Loring Doyl who was part of the optical line up for the 1980 film 'The Empire Strikes Back'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-gQq0ZPRwY]]> 2018-11-28 06:26:21 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/308639774 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/308645438 The third part of the rotoscoping class talks about the digital matte creation of rotoscoping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDNhrxfvFpo]]> 2018-11-28 07:15:48 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/308645438 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/308645739 The fourth and final part explains key framing strategies. Emphasising the timing like accuracy and speed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x38ZlSkCe8]]> 2018-11-28 07:17:40 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/308645739 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/311327671 These are the books that I will be taking notes from part 1 to 6. Keeping everything in a linear timeline from the very beginnings of compositing, taking a look at the well-known pioneers, to lesser-known ones and the obscure ones that students besides me will mention, but I will only mention them if they have relevant connection to compositing. Of course looking at the modern ways of film compositing, even showing some VFX breakdowns and tutorials.
I will be watching some internet videos on YouTube that have been recommended to me either by my tutors or friends, I have provided the links.
The rotoscoping side of the research I know very well especially on the animation portion like special effects or some Disney and Ralph Bakshi films when they wanted to depict a character in a more realistic movement, except for Ralph since he mainly used rotoscoping as a cost cutting way to not go over budget.
I will also be looking in depth of the Nuke software, mainly how it works and why it is the top compositing tool for all film/TV makers. I have colour  coded  the sections of research, pink for the books of compositing, green for links to videos either about compositing or rotoscoping, and finally blue for the obscure portions of research while having web links to them. Finally I'll be ending it off the essay with Nuke mainly about the modern ways of compositing.]]> 2018-12-05 13:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/311327671 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/311888775 2018-12-06 16:23:19 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/311888775 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/311892571 2018-12-06 16:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/311892571 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/311895044 2018-12-06 16:31:53 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/311895044 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/311896464 2018-12-06 16:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/311896464 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/311897418 2018-12-06 16:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/311897418 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/311902085 2018-12-06 16:42:45 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/311902085 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312042959 This is one of the obscure pieces of research, Dynamation was created by special effects master of stop-motion Ray Harryhausen for his movies, starting from 1953's 'The Beast of 20,000 Fathoms' to the original 'Clash of The Titans' in 1981.
Here are two videos on YouTube, the first is the trailer to 1958's 'The 7th Voyage of Sinbad' where they advertise Dynamation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arq6fTGkC6E
The second video is by AniMat, a regular channel that i would often watch for animation education, the video is the second part of his 'Best of Stop-Motion' mini-series of 'Animation Lookback' in 2014 talking about Ray Harryhausen. Please play at 12:01 at the video's timeline but stop at 12:59 so you know what section I'm talking about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lfRbqgpZh8]]> 2018-12-06 21:03:10 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312042959 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312054124 Steve Wright said it best for compositing in 2001.

"The ultimate artistic objective is to take images from a variety of different sources and combine them in such a way that they appear to have shot at the same time under the under the same lighting conditions with the same camera".

This quaote is from the fourth edition of the book 'Digital Compositing for Film and Video']]> 2018-12-06 21:43:21 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312054124 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312058032 This is one of the obscure pieces of research involving two kinds of composting, both being chemically and electronically. It's mainly to compare after watching 'JAWS 3D Retrospective/Review' by Oliver Harper on YouTube. Like AniMat, I also watch Oliver for film education, like listening to a particular film's production history and to hear the host's honest thoughts. Here's the link to the Retropective of 'JAWS 3D' where Oliver explains about the composting that turned out terrible especially for the film's infamous 3D effects; play at 10:32 but stop at 12:27 of the video's timeline.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsarUFfuWRY]]> 2018-12-06 21:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312058032 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312121094 This is a unique form of rotoscoping involving cartoon animation being mixed with live-action footage, the best examples of using this is Disney, Warner Brothers, Max Fleischer and MGM.
There were many examples of this to choose from, obviously the 1988 film being 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit', but I decided to look at a lesser known example being this scene from the 1945 film 'Anchors Aweigh' where Gene Kelly dances with Jerry Mouse from 'Tom & Jerry'. The footage was photographed and the animation was traced on top of it, using constant exposures with mattes resulting the animation to be well timed with the actors especially interactions like dancing or holding hands.
Here are two videos from the official YouTube Channel for the Oscars, where they explain on the sequence for 'Anchors Aweigh' was done
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlwbfOYqboM
The second video is the scene from the film where Gene and Jerry start dancing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2msq6H2HI-Y]]> 2018-12-07 06:03:05 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312121094 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312125744 The 1978 version of 'The Lord of The Rings' by Ralph Bakshi, this film was way before the highly acclaimed film trilogy by Peter Jackson between 2001 to 2003. There are other examples that Ralph using rotoscoping like 1977's 'WIZARDS', 1981's 'American Pop', 1982's 'Hey Good Lookin', 1983's 'Fire & Ice' and finally Ralph's last feature film as of 2018 being 1992's 'Cool World'.
Here's the original trailer to film on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnIhJwhBeqY]]> 2018-12-07 06:57:29 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312125744 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312129221 Disney's 16th animated film 'Sleeping Beauty', a great example focusing on the human characters like Princess Aurora and the film's villain Maleficent.
Here's the original trailer for the film from the official Disney Animation Studio's YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfsyUyi_FJM
Here's the scene from the film where Prince Philip fights Maleficent's dragon form which is my favourite final battle in any Disney film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLWSAz59c8M]]> 2018-12-07 07:24:18 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312129221 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312132572 Max Fleischer was well-known for using rotoscoping either for depicting realistic movements for a character or littually placing the cartoon characters in a live action model set. the two best examples are two cartoon starring Popeye. The two cartoons are in the public domain, so anyone can watch them fully on YouTube.
Here's the first and the most famous Popeye cartoon being 'Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor' in 1936.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIwUpvf2jXY
Here's the second cartoon being 'Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves' in 1937
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miw_Jw7j2sE]]> 2018-12-07 07:40:56 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312132572 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312138739 Besides looking at the classic ways of rotoscoping for animated films, I will explain the new era of rotoscoping for animation with digital effects like this film from 2006 being 'A Scanner Darkly'. Where they filmed the majority of the film in live action but they added interpolated rotoscoping by trace frame by frame digitally giving it a unquie look.
Here's the trailer to the film on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkjDUERgCQw

]]> 2018-12-07 08:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312138739 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312163816 This is one of the interesting portions of this plan, mainly to compare composited scenes from films either good or bad in both visual and how the sequence were done while I will give an honest opinion about them.
(Take this comparsion for an example, the scene on the top is from the original 'Star Wars' movie from 1977 and on the top is from Disney's 1979 film 'The Black Hole'. The scene from 'Star Wars' shows Obi-Wan shutting off the tractor beam in this stunning matte paint that blends so seamlessly with the set with no errors. The Scene from 'The Black Hole' has okay effects for a Disney movie, but the keying is really bad especially scenes like this one where you can clearly scene the film footage at the bottom that is a bit pale and grainy when paired with the matte painting that is clean.)]]> 2018-12-07 10:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312163816 egyptboy123 https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312170338 Besides reading the book for information about the program itself, I will be looking at video tutorials because sometimes I do prefer tutorials that are more visual than text or static pictures, I really do need it because Nuke can be frustrating,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9gcTp7tPOY&list=PLi2GhhsPL-Rofy3iMBNoU-9LuovWcIayl]]> 2018-12-07 10:40:24 UTC https://padlet.com/egyptboy123/jyax2mrwmcci/wish/312170338