adding animation to video clips

[photoman]

The title says it all. I know it is a total noob question but how do you do it? Do you need special software? Help much appreciated !

 

-Photoman

[thefreshestever]

only four threads ago there was exactly the same question where i put a link to a tutorial... it´s calles "cgi in film", take a look at it...

[Caroline]

Hi, Photoman - welcome to the forum!

 

How are your A:M skills? Basically compositing live action and animation is just like using Photoshop layers. You have the live action as a layer behind the animated person.

 

So you have your animated model, and render it out with an alpha channel to .tga format. You then create a choreography with the live movie as a layer, and bring in the .tga sequence in front of that layer. Where the black alpha channel was rendered, that will be transparent, showing through to the live action.

 

You should probably experiment with stills on one frame first, to get the hang of it. Mini tute here:

http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?s=&am...st&p=266940

 

If all that sounds like blaa-blaa, then you might need to do a little more reading and experimenting

 

This page http://www.alienlogo.com/tincan/ will introduce you to splines, and there is also an Alpha Channel tutorial.

[bighop]

I purchased the "Animation Master in Live Action" CD's by Sam Buntrock. It contains everything you need to know to incorporate live action.