503 - Compositing 2

The next scene I composited was this one:

This shows what the scene looked like before and after compositing.

What I had to do for this scene was to:

• place the character in the BG and colour grade her to fit into the environment
• animate the bathroom light turning off
• animate the pan across the scene, with parallax
• add camera sway
• overlay binoculars

This was quite a fun scene to composite, however I had a bit of trouble with the pan. Originally, I had planned on using 3D layers and having the room be further behind the main BG in 3D space, which when creating the camera would give a natrual parallax effect. However for some reason I couldn't move it in 3D, and I think that's because it is a photoshop composition containing different layers. I couldn't get it to work, so instead I manually animated the pan and parallax by keyframing the postion;s of each, making the room move slower. One problem with this was that I could no longer add the wiggle expression for the camera sway as that would get rid of the pan, so to overcome this I pre-composed the files and then applied a wiggle expression to that composition.

When it came to colour grading the character, I also wanted to maker it a little bit more interesting by making her more saturated when she walks into the light of the lamp, so to do that I just keyframed the saturation on an adjustment layer.

I really like how this scene turned out, as it's one of the ones that came out the same as the way I originally pictured it. I think it's a great introductory scene to the creep, and definitely gives off a voyeuristic vibe. To improve it I could have added a shadow on the girl to cement her more in the environment, as well as maybe blurring the binocular overlay.