Post Credits Animated Background

In my research, I have spent some time looking into particle effects. For a test, I decided to create a background that could be used for the credits on the children's project we are doing, currently by the name of 'Break Free' and toying with the name 'Beyond the Story'.

This is a creation using the particle effects in After Effects. By adjusting the psychics and producer, I was able to make the stars look like they were coming towards the screen, before adding in a camera that created a more 3D feel as if we are moving through the stars.

The colours were chosen to be pale, so they were not in your face but also they are very child like to suit the genre of the film.

I think it would be good if we are able to get a small animation of the unicorn, Taffy, from the film and play it within the credits.

Gods Among Us: Blue Screen Experiment Issues

I have been given some footage from the rest of my crew to test some blue screens. It was recorded on the black magic in the university film studio. In my experimentation, these are my main issues:

• Too much shadow casted on the actor as they move. Depends on what the background is like and where the light source is coming from but I wasn't given backgrounds to work with. I just found something from google images for test purposes only. 

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• The actors arms have a lot of shadows but I am unsure if this is meant to be deliberate to work with the background. However, no backgrounds have been given, just foregrounds. With this being recorded from the Black Magic, I have enhanced a lot of colour. The photo shown above is just a before image. The blue was enhanced reasonably well without effecting the actor.

• As opposed to the above, another clip I tried to work with had better lighting on the actor than it did on the blue screen. This meant that it was really difficult to key out the background from the foreground. The blue wasn't bright enough and when enhanced, it also had an affect on the actor.

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• In image 3 shows the clip mentioned in the above point. The background is far too dark. Image 4 shows when I attempted to enhance the colour.

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• The colour on the actors face and body is changed a lot. I intend to experiment some more with the colour balance but it might help/take less time up if the lighting in the background was lit a little bit more.