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| Posted: 22 Feb 2010 06:18 AM PST |
| New Eyeon Fusion Object Removal Techniques Posted: 22 Feb 2010 06:12 AM PST  Princeton, NJ (February 22, 2010) — cmiVFX launches its latest Eyeon Fusion training video in the new cmiDirect product variety. Learn crucial information about specific topics immediately after purchasing. The cmiDirect system teaches you exactly what you need to know without the need to search through hours of pointless verbatim often found in the typical training videos around the world. We take the black art of object removal and turn it into a well explained, follow along scenario, so that artists will be able to inject more creativity into their shot list and stand above the typical lower budget looking shots found way to often in the industry today.
 Learn how to remove unwanted objects, reflections, stabilize 3D camera movement and much more. We have included footage shot on Red Camera with Cooke lenses to provide the ultimate challenges for our training lessons.
Introduction Start off by taking a look at the raw film footage and its problematic areas. The overview here is to remove the grey control box in the centre of the image and its reflection, one of the train wagons, and add an additional window to the front building.
Patch Projection – Removing Control Box Discover how to integrate the creation of a clean patch to cover up the control box. Utilize the paint tool to clone the surrounding areas allowing the ability to conceal the box, while learning to project the result onto a plane in 3D space. Using 3D tracking data, match and integrate the patch to the general movement of the shot.
3D Geometry – Stabilizing 3D Footage Film footage shot with a freely moving camera can be extremely difficult to work with and stabilize. Everything is shifting; nothing remains stable and there are very limited constant factors. Utilizing simple geometry and a projection camera, learn how to simplify this complex problem and create stabilization of the 3D footage.
Time Offset – Parts of the train wheels were covered by the control box, which was previously removed, creating a problematic issue. The need to identify a quick solution or method to recover the wheels is crucial to continue the project. Painting the wheels in place would be a daunting and tedious task; the best solution is to copy the wheels from an area where they are not covered. The wheels now can appear on the patch before the train arrives and the time offset is the solution.
Roto in 3D – Getting Rid of the Wagon Learn in detail how the 3D environment can help with rotoscoping. The film footage has been stabilized from the previous work and now being able to exploit that footage, the process of rotoscoping out the train wagon can be conducted on the stabilized shot.
Bitmaps & CC – Removing the Box Reflection  Streamlining the project is crucial and if there is way to use a simple solution for a complicated task, then do it! Painting out the reflection of the control box from the moving train wagons could take uncountable hours. Assuming the removal will not have to be perfect, the best solution would be to map out the shape of the reflection and color it to match the rest of the train, this method proves to be much more efficient.
Adding Additional Elements Using the 3D environment can really be a bonus to any project. Simply lining up images behind one another in 3D space can create convincing parallax effects. The use of simple 3D geometry or FBX meshes can be of even more benefit. Receive a quick overview of how a window with a view into the room could be achieved by utilizing this technique.
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| Leaders of the World caught lip synching Posted: 22 Feb 2010 05:57 AM PST  Since 2007, Genseisha from Tokyo, has been working on a TV series airing several times a week on Nippon Television Network named The Leaders Of The World. Featuring 200 CG caricatures of the world leaders such as Barack Obama, Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy. So far, more than 190 short episodes of this humorous CG animated series have been produced using Autodesk Softimage. "The project is based on creating an animation from the daily news." explained Masuda Eiko, from Genseisha. "Since the animation is on air on the evening news program, the whole production is completed within about 5 hours, from modeling to compositing and including animation." Masuda reveals: "Each character's face is rigged with bones and custom parameters in order to be ready for the animators to use. The body animation and the facial expression (other than the lip sync) are all manually keyframed by the animators, We are using Voice-O-Matic to speed up the lip sync process. We started with US President Obama's inauguration speech animation." Voice-O-Matic automates lip sync animations with any 3D character rig in any language and help reduce production time drastically. Voice-O-Matic from Di-O-Matic is available as plug-in for Autodesk 3ds max, Autodesk Maya as well as Autodesk Softimage. "Since there is never a time when a character speaks without emotion, additional 'acting' was needed in addition to the lip sync. Which included tweaking the overall shapes and animation curves as well as animating eyes and eyebrows. Our criteria for choosing Voice-O-Matic were quality, flexibility and cost efficiency. It was also very important for us to easily implement Voice-O-Matic within our existing production pipeline." reveals Masuda. In addition to Voice-O-Matic, Genseisha has also recently acquired Facial Studio (Windows Edition) from Di-O-Matic. "Facial Studio helps us speed up character modeling. Because of the tight schedule of daily broadcasting on the nightly news program, reducing the time on pre-production allows the animators to take more time and improve the quality of the animations we produce." concludes Masuda. Di-O-Matic technologies once again proved their reliability in production, this time as a key component of the facial animation pipeline of The Leaders of the World tv series produced in Japan at Genseisha. Try Voice-O-Matic or Facial Studio (Windows Edition) to speed up your production pipeline like Genseisha. Related links: di-o-matic.com 
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