Looking wicked! I love that you see her blood smudges on the mirror. 
Secret Agent Entry: Adam Oestergaard
pierzak
#22
Looks good. That mirror double click at the end is funny. In the first shot character is very streached at the beginning. looks very wierd. Good overall.
qup
#25
Software: After Effects,Illustrator,Maya,mental ray,Photoshop
okay this is the 30 second trailer version of the final 1:30 video.
All the outside shots are Day for night shots… the outdoor sequence is comped in Nuke, Color corrected in Nuke and after effects using Colorista and Magic Bullet.
the indoor shots are all After Effects.
the brain shot is maya and After effects.
all the motion graphics are Illustrator to Photoshop to After effects.
qup
#27
thanks 
gonna keep working on it, got some shots i want to finish and make a little more of it.
mikebot
#28
Aha! Well if you’re still working on it, my suggestion would be maybe punch up the ending a bit. By that I mean, the music is very strong at the start, but then just gets a little procedural at the end, and then the film fades out. Maybe there’s a cool title screen you can display at the end, along with a bit more finality to the music?
GerR
#29
Definitely agree with Mike, the end seems like it cuts in a really weird place, maybe change it around a bit so the music doesn’t end in such a strange way.
qup
#30
yea, this isnt the ‘actual’ ending hehe… look at my storyboards at page one… i’m gonna shoot another sequence when i get time - I need to find a downtown inside a store location here in San Francisco… like Macy’s or something… that would wrap it up and give it a narrative and turn it into a complete piece…
michaelangeloart
#31
Would it be possible to add some notes on the live action shoot? Was it green screened and what camera and lighting kits you may have used for example. Perhaps some notes on casting and who your actors are. Thanxs!
destruct007
#32
Smart you did the right amount of CG to get it polished to the right level. On the story point, I started chuckling during the long elevator shot. Like even secret agents have to wait for slow elevators. hah. Another thing that was funny is that she misses the first shot. I’m guessing you added that for the bullet hit effect. Funny in the story line of it b/c she just did that super jump drop, ground break but she can’t shoot very well. hah, still really cool! Nice work!
qup
#33
Destruct - thanks im working on an opening shot now that didnt make the cut, it’ll look good once its done, all CG tho so it’ll take a whiile…
ill post some breakdowns if i get nominated for anything - since i assume you have to…
Michael - for the live action shoot, the opening shot is Green Screen, as you can probably see,
the following outdoor shots, are all shot on location downtown San Francisco, the actors are just 2 of my friends, theres actually a LOT of work done on the guy because he couldnt act, so when he had to pretend he had to be dead, he was blinking away and breathing and moving he’s legs… lol… so theres a LOT of roto, also, as you can see on the outdoor shots, they’re all completely 2 tone, way i did this was that i roto’ed the characters in both shots (yes, i shoulda just shot those shots on green screen also ) anyways, rotoed the characters in After Effects, exported my mask into Nuke where i fixed up an initial color correction which is something Nuke is EXCELLENT at, tehn i exported teh sequence from Nuke, into After Effects (10 bit tiff) where i did the final color correction using Colorista. the biggest problem with the outdoor sequence, was that because of my … lack of crew… the shoot took a while, and so it went from behing 98 degrees sunshine to DARK, so i had to grade every single shot very very carefully to get them to the same level skintones, i will post some before and after shots again, if i get nominated for anything… i dont know how that actually works haha… but, most of the shots are Day to night, then 1 or 2 of them are actually natually dark, and as you can imagine, even if you use Keno’s and spotlights, teh skintones are going to be significantly different from Night to Day, so… really the Grade/color correction process was the big time consumer here… it was hard work…
for Equiptment, i used a Panasonic HVX 200 camera, shot 720p, 60 frames pr second and time remapped in After Effects so i had some leadway in my timing.
for Lights, on the outdoor sequence i used 2 spotlights at all time and that was it, couldnt get sufficiant electricity at the locations, the Keno’s eat A LOT of power…
for the Toilet sequence, i had 2 Kenos on her and the natual light inside the toilet.
Ummm i have another greenscreen shot coming in the intro sequence, I will post this outside the challenge topic once i get more stuff done.
hope this answered some questions.
Adam
mikebot
#34
haha damn… well I’m even more impressed by your compositing then. Let us know when you post your new stuff.
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