During this small project, we were tasked with creating some VFX shots using both tracked and hand made keyframing, built in visual effects and stock footage that was given to us. Firstly, we needed to use the liquify tool to alter the appearance of a stock footage boy. I also chose to use the boy stock footage for the hand made keyframing.
In order to do this, I inserted the liquify effect into the scene and placed it in-between the boy's eyes.
I then used the liquify tools to edit and re-shape the boy's face. I began keyframing the position of the liquify effect so that it would remain consistently on the boy's face. I did this by moving forward a few frames and moving the center piece for the effect in-between the boy's eyes each time. Unfortunately, this could have gone better due to the fact that the liquify effect appears to bounce around and doesn't track as effectively. If I could improve this part of the project I would used the built in tracking systems in After Effects.
Next, using the other stock footage of a bridge, I used the built in keyframing system to track a sign's position and scale to the side of the bridge. This was done by taking the image and adding a two point tracker so that it would track to the bridge's railings. This went well, however, if I could improve this part of the project I would change the tracking to a three point tracking so that it would change the tracked image's rotation along with the position and size.
Overall, I believe this project went well, despite the small number of problems that were caused by using hand made keyframing, with the final footage mostly looked good throughout.
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