Posts

Showing posts from March, 2022

Doctor Strange knows the BIONICLE Fan Experience

Image
There's a certain phenomenon BIONICLE fans know of, referred to as "the dream." When I first saw the teaser trailer for the second Doctor Strange installment, I knew what to do. To be honest, this is probably the first time I tried the After Effects rotoscoping tool and it actually turned out well. In the past (e.g. Clash of the Jedi ), the results of rotoscoping would be questionable, need a lot of cleanup, or both, which made me rely entirely on masking instead throughout the ABYDOS duology, but this time it worked out pretty painlessly. Anyway, I used rotoscoping for Strange himself and a mask for the ground; after that, it was mostly a matter of finding as many full shelf images as I could. I stuck them in a pre-comp, then moved it to track with Strange's vision and color graded it to fit in a little better, throwing a CC Snowfall on and tweaking it to match the ashes.