Telesnap #10 - TARDIS Disembark

Hello everyone!

Here's my rendition of the TARDIS crew leaving the ship. I acted out the movements myself for each of the three characters, and then used that as motion capture and fed it to Viggle to generate the movement. I separated the telesnap into several layers with the bushes on top, and I created a clean background plate, with the people in the middle. In addition, I added movement to the leaves using stock footage overlaid. Perhaps too subtle? I didn't want to replace the original trees in the telesnap. I also rendered a 3D TARDIS door opening at the start.

I had some trouble with the Doctor's face as the software wouldn't generate movement nicely without changing his likeness, so as per some of the previous suggestions, I comped in a new face. The Doctor hasn't come out perfectly. Part of the problem with some of this is that the results are incorporating my stature which is too gangly for the impish Pat Troughton!

I see that Ian Levine has released a new clip, this time of Marco Polo. I think his guy is using Viggle too as I saw someone create a walk cycle of Ian in his Marco Polo coat which was being generated on the same server I'm using. But they're using the in-built motion rather than capturing a new performance. I'd be quite happy with some of the animated faces he's done but I think the difficulty arises when there's clearly some noise in the soundtrack which indicates there should be lots of movement. It creates cognitive dissonance for me.

Part of what made me proud of my last clip with Polly and Kirsty was that after listening carefully to the audio, I was discerning the movement that must have been taking place in the clip. So for my approach I want to continue to accurately recreate what we're missing, rather than having generic speaking photos. It's unfortunately a longer and more involved process!

Thanks for your continued support!

Cheers

Gav