G6-MidTerm

G6-Proposal Our proposal

desert background (clouds, sky, ground, rocks, cacti, etc)
- This will all probably be done through maya. To get a more cartoony effect, we will most likely be using cartoon images as textures.
Thirsty, flopping tongue that signifies "I'm hungry!"
- Probably too complicated to model in maya, we may drop this in exchange for a simpler shot
turkey
- Maya model
turkey eyes (turkey, eyeball, lids)
- Motion tracking on someone's face to add in Maya eyes
picnic scene (blanket, basket, food, beverage, watermelon, napkin, ants)
- Could be real items, but sucking them into a hole at the end might be simpler if they are cg
"im mad", "i'm tasty", sweat droplets above heads
dust when skidding
- Still researching how to do this in Maya or if possible to do without CG

Samples of what we're talking about:

big knife, fork
big 'yikes' sign
- pulling out the sign: hide real sign behind green to side of person
big fan
- Film 'falling' with fan, then speed up to show lots of wind. Can hang from green screen room - irfan says so
- pan falling boy in premiere, wiggle camera to show floating/falling
newspaper
- Technique
Rubik's cube
- Toys 'R' Us
playing guitar (cool music w/ falling sound, singing kumbaya)

Keeping to 30 seconds
Don't dwell on the fact that they have been walking in the desert for a long time
Combine Storyboards 3-6 (Ellen turning into a turkey) so that the transformation happens in Edward's eyes
- Saves time and reduces the number of transitions between shots
The shots of an actor falling and reading/solving Rubik's cube should only take 1 second or less
Shots of an actor at a picnic should also only be about 1 second

Mirage of actor turning into food
- This could be done with one layer of green screen footage of an actor being alpha faded out while a layer containing a turkey model will be faded in.
- Could use openCV to create a blurring mirage-type effect
- Morphing a human model in Maya
Eyes turning into Roasted Turkeys (cartoon way of saying,"I see something I want to eat!")
- Motion tracking actor's face / Mapping CG to motion tracking data
Body stretching
- Green screen footage of an actor can be stretched and animated through complex editing.
Falling off cliff
- Green screen footage with a giant fan blowing the actor to simulate falling speed
Standing on air, falling through air
- If the scene is all CG, then standing on air is just green screen footage of an actor
Growing shadow on picnic scene
- Simple if picnic scene is CG. If scene is footage, then this will require some calibration and mapping of a cg shadow
Black hole effect
- pull cg ground into hole them map frame buffer to cg plane and deform

New shot: Quick zoom out to plane crash...footsteps in sand
Green screen-we might need help with getting green screen looking good, i.e. killing the glow, reflection, halo, etc..

Chris - Code Lead / Maya
Ellen - Sound / Modelling / Super Model
Edward - Maya / Coding
Mark - Editing / Premiere Man / Coding

02/28	Proposal Due
03/14	Mid-Term Report Due
03/28	Project Update 1
03/31	Main Footage Shot
04/03	Mark's Birthday
04/04	Modelling / Cartoon backgrounds done
04/04	Project Update 2
04/09	Only touchups remaining at this point
04/11	Project Update 3
04/13	Project Due - Internal Screening I
04/18	Internal Screening II
04/27	External Screening

DVFX 2006 Groups last edited on 28 March 2006 at 1:15 pm by r52h135.res.gatech.edu