This post is to explain how I have done this, issues I have had, how I went around them and my thoughts on the final look. I attempted to record the screen to show the progress but since it kept crashing, I only have so much footage.
How did I create it?
I decided to use Adobe After Effects because it was professional and I was most comfortable with the program since I have used it previously. This city matte took my skills to the next level because I had to add buildings behind an existing building and make them look in place using colouring effects and getting the right perspective. John, the director and producer, of this project created the buildings in 3DS Max to add in.
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To do this, I created the entire image black and white, using levels and curves, so that I could luma key out the background from the foreground. The main part of the image that we wanted to keep, is what is originally a fire station that we turn into the police station. Once I had created a luma matte and took out the background, I was able to create a fake sky that was key framed to move.
Issue That Came Along
In the beginning, I only had very wobbly footage that was followed up with 'can you just stabilise it?' creating more work for me. It needed to be still or very smooth movement that I was able to the track. I did try to make it stable but the program would crash with the amount of work and effects getting added. I ended up having to take a still and animating parts to move.
I was given new footage later after I had done a lot of work on the still image. However, the footage's framing was gaining too much thin tree branches to cut out/around.It was also extremely time consuming to keep having to restart a new matte paint when I had multiple edits to work on.
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