REFLECTIONS: Photography Last Minute Changes
After thinking about what i wanted to be in the 4 "social media stories" that were going to be presented on the wall, this is what i came up with:
An interesting way to show how without our memories we are nothing, is to switch the idea around and think of how something as simple as a mannequin would have some sort of character if it participated in those memories.
I figured that a cool and fun way to show that would be to photoshop a mannequin in to a few photos, creating memories for it.
The first photo i chose to use was this:
Yes, that's me... The pose in this photo seemed quite expressive and the context of the photo (beach towel, sunny day, bars in the background) set the mood of a summer holiday snap.
However, since this was a last minute idea i didn't shoot the mannequin in the correct pose and lighting in order to photoshop it in to the picture.
This is were i remembered the software i used somewhere in the middle of this project to create a 3D head, and i recalled the fact that it had a free and ready to use mannequin model.
After importing the original photo in to the software, i posed the mannequin to fit the pose:
After that i lit the scene based on the original photo's lighting (backlit from the sun, bounce light from the road and environment). Then i textured the model using a wood photo from Cinema 4D's library, and then rendered a transparent image of the final model.
Then in photoshop i manipulated the 3D export to fit the original image, erased the original head and arms using Content-Aware Fill, and finally did a few adjustments to match the colors and shadows.
After each photo was done, i then added it in to the original photoshop document i had previously made, so that it looked like a facebook post.
Similar techniques were used in the second image, but this time i managed to use one of the photos from the studio shoot:
After all of the 4 images were ready, i imported them in to After Effects to add the final animation and motion.
I also added the 3D head that i had previously made for testing purposes on to the mannequin's head, suggesting that because of all of the memories flying around, a bit of character is fading in...
The final video is a 1 minute loop, and will be aligned and projected on to the printed photo.
An interesting way to show how without our memories we are nothing, is to switch the idea around and think of how something as simple as a mannequin would have some sort of character if it participated in those memories.
I figured that a cool and fun way to show that would be to photoshop a mannequin in to a few photos, creating memories for it.
The first photo i chose to use was this:
However, since this was a last minute idea i didn't shoot the mannequin in the correct pose and lighting in order to photoshop it in to the picture.
This is were i remembered the software i used somewhere in the middle of this project to create a 3D head, and i recalled the fact that it had a free and ready to use mannequin model.
After importing the original photo in to the software, i posed the mannequin to fit the pose:
Then in photoshop i manipulated the 3D export to fit the original image, erased the original head and arms using Content-Aware Fill, and finally did a few adjustments to match the colors and shadows.
After each photo was done, i then added it in to the original photoshop document i had previously made, so that it looked like a facebook post.
Similar techniques were used in the second image, but this time i managed to use one of the photos from the studio shoot:
After all of the 4 images were ready, i imported them in to After Effects to add the final animation and motion.
I also added the 3D head that i had previously made for testing purposes on to the mannequin's head, suggesting that because of all of the memories flying around, a bit of character is fading in...
The final video is a 1 minute loop, and will be aligned and projected on to the printed photo.
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