Cameo appearence on Charmed

wildstorm · Post by **wildstorm** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:26 am

Whoo Hoooo!!!! I can post on this part of the forum now!!! thank you so much to whoever fixed this!!!

About a year ago, I decided to try and actually insert myself into a scene from a tv series or movie. I chose to be in an episode of Charmed. Anyways, when I had filmed my self for this effect, I did not use a blue or greenscreen because of previous experiments I wasn't able to light the screen correctly so I decided to animate masks around myself. The whole 14 second sequence took about 3 weeks to do as I was trying to limit the dancing around the edges associated to doing a composite like this. I don't know how the pro's do that kind or rotoscoping but oh well. Anyways, it was my first attempt and I would have to say its good first attempt. I could have done some things better but hopefully my next composite test will come out better.

http://www.wsfilms.net/charmed.asf

Let me know what you think

ChemicalShamanII · Post by **ChemicalShamanII** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:48 pm

I had already seen this a while ago so I must have chanced upon your site via a search engine at some stage. It's pretty frikkin impressive considering you did it without a green-screen, I can only imagine the amount of work you must have poured into it.

CS

maj_barnes · Post by **maj_barnes** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:06 pm

That was funny: some guy random wondering throughout the house.

It did look really good, except for the first part were you walk out of the scene before reappearing. It kinda jumped. But the rest looked pretty spot on.

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El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:24 pm

HEH! That's one way to get on TV although the thought of spending 3 weeks for 14 seconds of fame is a little worrying!

John Groshko · Post by **John Groshko** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:19 pm

Very well done! Would have been perfect if there wasn't that slight jump when you first walked into the room. But other than that it was a A+ effect.

wildstorm · Post by **wildstorm** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:11 am

Even though that it took me three weeks to do this after it was all completed and I viewed the final product, I was like whoa... this looks friggin kool. Would I do it this way again? Sure. But I'm gonna try and do greenscreen first ya know, practice makes perfect. I was planning on inserting myself into anther show or movie. Haven't decided yet. I want to actually try and interact with the characters in my next effect. Maybe even replace a character in a scene. That would be really cool. I'm gonna submit this clip over at the www.alyssa.com message boards and see what Alyssa thinks of it. He he he.

SpyroClone · Post by **SpyroClone** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:16 am

I didn't even notice the little jump until about the 4th time i watched it. That was really cool

wildstorm · Post by **wildstorm** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 10:08 pm

I was going to fix that jump in the beginning but I thought what the hell, its done and I wanna do something else. My next one will be better though.

Magic-Man · Post by **Magic-Man** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:53 am

Well done. Looks quite convincing but after watching it again, it kinda speeds up when u walk through the door.