Introduction
As we have finished the modeling and rigging of the mechanical arm. This week our focus was on recording the video for mechanical arm and later we edited the video to remove the green arm.
Recording
I started off by wearing a green costume on my arm and then we started recording my acting video. I acted a small scene with my arm with the imagination in my mind that I have a mechanical arm. We will then remove the green arm by using chroma key and replace the void with the mechanical arm.
Removing the Green Arm
Our teacher removed the background using the software “DaVinci”. We can also use After Effects to remove the green object by using the color key or chroma key.
After removing the green arm, we exported the image sequence from after effects so that we can import it in maya and incorporate our mechanical arm in the scene.
Setting up the scene in Maya
We then scaled the whole scene and the arm. Next week we are planning to animate this shot.