For this short project, we were tasked with using After Effects to rotoscope a new poster over an existing poster and tracking it to the movement of the camera. The poster I chose to replace the image with was the poster for "The Thing" (1982).
Firstly, I imported the footage of a hallway poster and used a 3D camera tracker to create a tracker and a representation of the 3D space.
Next, I used the select tool to hover over the created 3D tracker and created a track solid.
Then, I realigned the track solid until the top and bottom sides aligned to the top and bottom of the poster, making sure to maintain a symmetrical size for each value.
After this, I pre-composed the track solid and inserted the poster over the top, making sure to align it with the poster in the previous poster underneath.
Afterwards, in the poster pre-composition I removed the visibility of the track Solid in order to better fit the poster into the frame, as well as removing the green side bars that would hang over the edge of the image.
Finally, I added an assortment of effects to fit the image more effectively into the scene. These effects included; changes in the image's saturation to make it more grey and brightness to appear darker, similar to the background. The next effects I added were exposure and grain, to better fit with the camera footage and its subtle grain.
Overall, I believe that I did well on this project because the final poster image blends well into the footage and believably tracks and fits within the frame. However, if I could improve on this project I would add a reflective appearance to the poster, making it better fitted into the scene.
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