Interstellar actor replacement WIP

Compositing

About The Project

For my final project of school, I had to comp in an other actor, aka me, in a scene from Interstellar. I chose a scene with a lot of complexity to demonstrate my skills.

First off, I had to film my take. After, I rotoed myself. Why didn't I keyed myself instead? Because I needed a clean edge. With my setup, I couldn't do a clean alpha with a key without having some problems. After that, I keyed my hair. I included my plate with the alpha to the original plate.

The original plate contained 2 actors, Rommly and Cooper. With my plate, I chose to keep Cooper and Paint Out Rommly. Using FrameHolds, rotoscopy and Photoshop, I created a clean plate. After, I integrated the interaction between Copper and I using roto and tracking. I also incorporated a shadow.

Software Used

  • The Foundry's Nuke
  • Adobe Photoshop

    Key Tasks:

    • Actor
    • Rotoscopy
    • RotoPaint
    • Grading
    • Keying
    • Integration

Challenges:

To make my life “easier”, I wanted to test and use Silhouette. My alpha edges weren't perfect, in fact they were worse than a Key. So I did a good manual roto. A week lost...

Then, the left hand was coming out of the frame when I turned. So I had to recreate it with disolves and warps.

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