Week 11: Visual Effects Advanced Techniques

Visual Effects Advanced Techniques

We will focus on 2 topics here. One is chroma key and another one camera tracking.

Chroma-Keying

The Chroma-Keying effect lets you create an alpha channel (transparency zone) for your bitmap image or image sequence. For example, if you have a series of bitmap images with a character filmed on a green screen or blue screen, you can use this module to create an alpha channel based on the screen colour and cut it out from your image sequence.

(Image source from google images)

source:
http://docs.toonboom.com/help/animate-pro/Content/HAR/Stage/019_Effects/029_H2_Chroma_Key.html



Camera Tracking

 The camera is treated the same way as any other element. The same tools and selection modes are used to offset or animate it. To animate the camera, you need to connect it to a peg element.

(Image source from google images)

(Image source from google images)

source:
https://www.toonboom.com/resources/video-tutorials/video/moving-the-camera