Superimposition with a mask

Experimentation with Superimposition with mask from Munirat Plummer on Vimeo.


This video above shows me experimenting with my idea. It is a rough experiment because there many mistakes such as:

• accuracy of masking in After Effects
• the scene is not even in the videos, so in the future I need to make that I keep any item in the scene in the same place if I'm going to try and mask any element in it.
• the opacity effect does give me the result I want but I want to experiment with ways of making the person more ghostlike, maybe I can add a floating effect or mistiness. This would require me to use Maya so I think I might re-do the scene and practice the masking technique and combine the use of incorporating CGI mist into it.
• I should also think of sound, I have not added sound to the video because I am not experimenting with that yet, but now that I have a visual aid I can start to experiment with that more.
• I should think about how what direction I want the character coming in from and how it is going to interact with the ghost.

The rough storyboard just shows how I want the scene to look, I am going re-do the storyboard and try to show the ghostly effects I want to add, I can do that in my concept art too.

I learned that I can also keyframe the mask applied in After Effects so this means I can be more accurate with the technique. Images below are examples, the mask outline can be manually created or based on an existing shape.