Stands for live action props

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:30 am

The kids built a whole ginger bread village and I had an idea.....
I set the village up on the table and moved my green screen behind the set.
Got the tripod out and set the camera to focus on the village...

WRONG....

I spent the next 2 hrs trying to rig the characters, aka tape, tacks, etc and nothing is working.

Has anyone have any good ideas of how to rig something like this?

Daddy 0, gingerbread man 1.

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:14 pm

Well, I can only say what I would try! I'd separate all the houses and bits in the environment and photograph them individually against the green screen -- saves problems with depth of field when filming small stuff. Next I'd photograph the characters and split them up into limbs, torsos and heads in Photoshop, one character per layer. Then I'd import the stuff I did earlier, so I had just one Photoshop file to deal with. Make sure the background to all layers is transparent.

Then I'd use the "Export Layers to Anime Studio" script and rig till it hurt...