Post Production!

2 Weeks of No Daylight. Now it's On To Post Production!

As you may guess the end is near!! Woohoo!

4 months work, near completion.

The only thing left to do was remove the blue screen, and create a background.

First I used a pen tool to remove were the rig could be seen in the film. Luckily I managed to hide a large portion of the rig behind the lectern.

Once I had drawn around the rig, I could then go frame by frame, animating this mask to remove the rig from the animation, as you see from all the key points below.  

Once the rig had been removed, I then went on to design my background in photoshop.

I wanted something in the middle of cartoon like and realistic, to fit in with Blob.

I managed to come up with this simple background.

The next step was to import it under my animation, and with the blue screen and rig hidden I began to see Blob in his environment.

I few tweaks and added masks had to be made with the flooring and Blob's crocs. As the crocs were blue they got removed with the blue screen. To fix this I had to cut the animation in half, where the carpet meets the wall, and then place a copy of the original animation under neath this. This then showed his blue crocs.

In the end I had about 10 masks on the go!
That's a lot of masks!
You can see the positioning of many of the masks below.

Once my background was in place, I had some little time left over before submitting my animation, therefore I decided to add a flame to the candle!
This was done much easier than you think.
I first gathered some free stock footage of a flame flickering.
I then cut around that, rescaled it and then put it on top of my candle!

Finished Image!