The Who Was? Show - Episode 11

My Role

The Who Was? Show was a new offering on Netflix with a target audience of young children. Actors portrayed various famous people throughout history and the show explained two important figures per episode.  My job for episode 11 was to rotoscope the actors and mask out some tracking markers on the green screen for some shots in the coin toss conversation sequence. I also needed to do some minor set/prop extension with the top biplane wing.

I used After Effects for the roto and masking as well as Photoshop to clean up the background image.

The Process

The task

I received all the necessary assets online, and the shots were set up as TIF sequences to import into After Effects. This is a good preview of one of the frames, where you can see the green screen with tracking markers, as well as the biplane prop with the wing I needed to extend.

Wright bros coin toss
Getting started

One of my initial steps was to pull a key from the green screen. That's how the majority of the tracked background was handled. Following that, I rotoscoped duplicates of the shot in order to fine tune any of the edges the keying process may have degraded.

Wright brothers thumb 3
Production

Here you can see some of my roto shapes. I used a combination of shapes with different amounts of edge feathering to account for the hard borders of the clothing and the less distinct borders in the hair. Their overlaps allow more control instead of just trying to work with one big shape full of points.

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