Airi Pan 29.13 Photobashing Basics
29 Lesson 5 - Photobashing Basics Part 5 - Environment Demo PT1
P29 - 00:01演示环境设计。
Welcome back. We’re hopping right into it by actually doing something that isn’t a bird in a hat with pancakes in the table something that most likely you won't be doing. although if you do, do let me know, cause that's probably a really cool project that you're on.
P29 - 00:23回到小红帽和灰姑娘的选项。
So we're back to the age old question, little red riding hood Versus Cinderella. again, my heart go out to little red riding hood. Don't worry, i'll get Cinderella soon enough. But today I will still stick with our little red and our good old wolf, except this time I'm gonna take a twist. And for our photo bath piece, I'm going to take the scene into the snowy mountains.
P29 - 00:46小红帽场景改编成雪景。
This time, I'm not really concerned about what little red actually looks like, because our main concern this time, is about how to actually do a proper photo bash environment. I'm not doing this necessarily to only show you environments, but typically for photo bashing, that is what you would be creating.
P29 - 01:05创建影视场景。
Because unlike animation, animation, you need to actually draw out every single scene essentially, where you're creating something from scratch.
P29 - 01:15动画的每个场景片段需要绘制。
But with live action movies, you usually have an actor or actress who is your character already. And the story boards will tell you how the movie will flow.
P29 - 01:26真人影视故事板讲述来龙去脉。
And even within a more hyper realistic video games, because the character had very defined in strict models. And game play isn't usually focused on their face.
P29 - 01:33游戏视频不专注设定角色表情。
There’s not that much of a need for very pictorial composition within photo bashing for video games and live action. It's usually very much production based and environment focused.
P29 - 01:46游戏和真人影视专注场景创建。
That isn't to say that we shouldn't have strong composition. in a nutshell. I will just be bashing what is usually most typically seen in expected within the industry.
P29 - 01:57简言之，绘制期待看到的构图。
Let's say that for this piece, I'm specifically thinking of doing live action. So this photo bash piece would be for a live action movie.
P29 - 02:05加入该画布给真人影视准备的。
What size of canvas should I use? Drum roll. If you chose between 1.85 and 2.34 then you are correct.
P29 - 02:15真人影视1.85 2.34之间的长宽比。
So as you can see, I have opened up a canvas that is super long. Wow, this is like Christopher Nolan size long, this is going to be a 2.34 aspect ratio. This is much longer than the visual development piece that we used previously. So there's a lot more space to cover. But don't worry.
P29 - 02:32真人影视2.34长宽比。
Thankfully with photo bashing. The best part is that most of the drawing specifically is already done for you, because the photograph itself has more detail than you could ever draw well enough within a day or a super short amount of time. As always, let's begin with an opening sketch and throwing down some ideas.
P29 - 02:54把想法绘制到空白的画布上。
I’m thinking about something where like the house would be here. And maybe there's like a little bridge or a fence here. And I wanted to be a bit on a hill. So if you walk down here, you get to a little lake.
P29 - 03:08篱笆院小屋旁，山下有片湖。
And there would be rocks here. There will be a snow bank here.
P29 - 03:18湖两边有岩石和雪堆。
There's some kind of snow hill over here, surrounded by nice trees, a few different items here. I'm not super sure what these things would be just yet, but that's completely okay.
P29 - 03:29有雪山和树木环绕。
Some trees here, little red. I'm thinking that they would either be on the snowbank maybe props here, looking towards the house. So this would be grandma's house.
P29 - 03:39小红帽在雪堆，通往外婆家的路上。
So maybe they're looking towards the house or they're already walking away over the lake going to grandma's house.
P29 - 03:46在湖一边或者在过湖中。
And we have a beautiful mountain scene in the background, because I am a huge fan of mountains. This is exactly the level of sketch that I would do, right before I start going into look for my photos. I just want a general sense in general idea of what I want to do.
P29 - 04:03这就是我的构思。
This is a perfect angle where it's kind of very level. So its levels to your eye, was around the horizon line kind of being very standard middle.t Demo PT1 P29 - 04:14水平线在画布中间。
P29 - 04:14水平线在画布中间。
In terms of dividing the composition, I would say the house is on a 1/3 plain and little red could be on another plain of 1/3, perhaps here.
P29 - 04:22三分，左侧房子，右侧小红帽。
And just because I still love the idea of little red having a little mule, I think I'm gonna have a little mule or just some kind of little a question creature, a little red can be riding it carrying their little basket.
P29 - 04:39骡子驮着小红帽和篮子。
I don't really care about little red at this time, what I'm really worried about is the overall environment.
P29 - 04:44我真正担心的是环境非小红帽。
So with that out of the way, let's go in to look for some photos. Before I begin the search, though, I think to myself, what am I going to need?
P29 - 04:51搜索资料前，罗列需求清单。
First of all, I'm gonna be needing a good house, preferably a snowy house, something in the snow. I'm gonna need a mule donkey or another some kind of a question creature.
P29 - 05:03被雪覆盖的房屋和骡子座骑。
I'm gonna need my little red, so red, I just write a donkey. I'm gonna need a lake. I'm gonna need some rocks. Snowy rocks! I'm also gonna need a snowy trees and I’m also need a snowy mountain and a pretty sky.
P29 - 05:22小红帽驴子 雪覆盖岩石房山湖。
and of course, the most important thing, snow in general, just like lands and lands of snow. And perhaps a fence, Question Mark.
P29 - 05:35最重要的遍地雪覆盖，篱笆？
I’ll see. Now I'm just going to go into Google images and drag down whatever the heck I see that is suitable and big enough size.
P29 - 05:45谷歌引擎大小对，符合清单的。
as I'm going through Google and just looking for things that I could use. Here are some of the key aspects that I always look out for.
P29 - 05:54搜索关键点。
Number one, always go to tools and select large that way you weed out anything that isn't usable in the first place.
P29 - 05:59第一，搜索筛选条件，大小。
I also look for something that has neutral lighting. So you can see here there's a cloud in the sky, typically a good sign about neutral lighting.
P29 - 06:06有云天空提示中性光。
One fantastic thing about snow, as I said in the previous videos, is that snow usually has overall neutral cast lighting.
P29 - 06:15雪有自然投射光。
What you want to avoid would be something more like this, where you can see a clear shadow in the snow.
P29 - 06:21避免雪中有大片的实体阴影的。
This is something really difficult to photo bash or photoshop out. something like this,
P29 - 06:28照片很难去除阴影。
however, where the snow shadow isn't too heavy would be easier to handle.
P29 - 06:32但是阴影浅点少点可以处理的。
I also want to make sure that I use the same kind of time of day. I should avoid things are at nighttime or things that have light on them.
P29 - 06:42避免夜间或者点灯。
Instead, I should stick with things that have a neutral kind of lighting that I can easily paint on Top of if I want to make any adjustments and changes.
P29 - 06:49白天中性光方便改写或者调整。
So an image like this would actually be quite perfect. You can see that this snow here is much darker than the white snow here. So that's also another thing to consider when you're looking for photos.
P29 - 07:03有的雪暗有的亮。匹配故事场景。
Try to have all your photos kind of be able to match each other in the very beginning. That way you don't have to do as much editing in the future. Now you're probably thinking, gosh, there are so many criteria to think about what you're looking for photos, yes, you're absolutely right.
P29 - 07:19开始考虑周全，反节省时间成本。
In fact, many people who start off photo bashing completely underestimate the time it takes to look for photos.
P29 - 07:28别忽略找照片素材的时间成本。
In fact I know for people in the movie industry, sometimes when they're looking to the photo bash of piece, they would actually spend around half the day around 3 to 4 hours just looking for the appropriate photos.
P29 - 07:42影视行业用一下午找合适的照片。
This is why I recommend that you actually go and take photos yourself that you go out and procure your own photos. I myself, when I travel and go to a new location, i've always bring either my own camera or a friend who has a much more powerful camera than I do, to help me take photos of the environment so that we can use those photographs later for photo bashing.
P29 - 08:04所以旅游时候我们自己取景拍摄。
The more you use your own photos, also the less risk of copyright infringement and all those other kinds of things.
P29 - 08:10也降低侵权的危险系数。
also, nothing feels better than using your own photos and creating a really cool piece out of it. Trust me. So with that, we are going to get straight to it.
P29 - 08:19直奔主题。
Precisely like with our demo with the bird, i'll look for the items in my sketch that I need. Then I procure the photos that have the exact same items that I need with my sketch. For example, i've grabbed the lake here. I've grabbed a house, I'm grabbing wooden logs and I'm grabbing snow banks and rocks. And every single item that I specifically pointed out in my sketch.
P29 - 08:42房子岩石 湖水篱笆拖拽到草图。
today, we're just going to get all the photos down. Photo bashing, especially for those who are new to it, is a very technology heavy process. So instead of me trying to fit the entire process into one video or even into one module, we're going to use two modules to show this entire process.
P29 - 09:04该过程分两章节讲解。
So for today, just now my main goal is simply to procure the photos and place them into the scene and stitch them together,
P29 - 09:14各就各位，简单缝合在一起。
taking it to a finish. And all the fancy photoshop footwork will be saved for module six, the next episode. Because as you can see, this video is already getting quite long. And we have just started. This is a process that takes a lot of thinking, doing and redoing. You're not going to get it right the first time. This is because it's more like a collage. It's not like drawing or you can draw it and get it right immediately.
P29 - 09:38像是贴图耗费时间在构思和反复。
As you can see, I have two different houses here and I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be a better fit.
P29 - 09:44我选择两个房子，哪个更合适。
I like the more orange, the lighter coloured house. I like that one better because it has a bit more of an older feeling. Whereas the original house that I pulled up is a little bit too modern, a little bit too new.
P29 - 09:55带年代感的好过现代感的房子。
Just like how I mention a photo bashing is like a collaging. You can see that I'm taking parts of the old house and fitting it on to the new house.
P29 - 10:04可以把老房子嫁接到新房子上。
You have to be very careful with things like houses or buildings because the perspective is very easy to mess up.
P29 - 10:12视角很容易出错。
You can see I definitely am adjusting and readjusting and going on over and over and over, trying different ways to make sure that i can successfully stitch in this new house together with the old house.
P29 - 10:25新老房子仔细结合成新房子。
to make my house feel like they're coherent. Because you can clearly see that there is one patch of houses that’s light. And there's another patch of house that dark.
P29 - 10:34一排房子暗的，另一排亮的。
I use the color balance tool so that I can adjust my colours to be a little bit more harmonious with each other.
P29 - 10:40平衡颜色让不同部分浑然天成。
Everything you're seeing so far such as from adding in snow banks or distorting it, taking things out, putting things in, this is literally everything that we saw in the bird demo.
P29 - 10:53雪堆扭曲加部分减部分复习技术。
using lasso tool, perspective, warp, distort, anything under the sun. So just relax and enjoy a nice collage time lapse.
P29 - 11:04享受拼图的乐趣。
However, if there is anything that is very important of note or new Information that I will make sure to slow down, pause and explain it to you fully.
P29 - 11:14有新知识点会暂停仔细讲述的。
for example. We're gonna be doing that right now. You see on this river bank here, there's a little portion that is kind of miss in kind of a hole. And what you can do, actually you can take the lasso tool, select it, click edit, fill, content aware fill and it will fill it out for you using photoshop AI system, really need.
P29 - 11:32比如水下空洞套索AI填充。
here is another one. Now whenever your photo bashing, you are bound to run into this, the dreaded stock photo image, the one where there is water marks and water logos all over the place.
P29 - 11:49碰到带水印的图片。
No matter what you do one day in your life, for whatever reason, you are going to encounter a stock photo image where you inevitably do need to take the logo out.
P29 - 11:59去除水印的办法。
However, disclaimer, if you are ever doing a major publishing work and commercial work or anything that has to be published online under a company name, make sure that you buy and purchase whichever stock photos that you use.
P29 - 12:14公开商业化的需要买版权。
for your personal work. It is okay to use stock images because at the end of the day you are not going to selling this image.
P29 - 12:21个人学习非商业的可以去除水印不买版权。
As you can see, what I’ve used so far are not stock photo images. Trust me, there's really good photos and images out there. You don't need to stick with any stock photos, but I do know that eventually you will definitely find your way here.
P29 - 12:38海量的不需要去除水印的照片。
So let me show you the way that I get rid of these logos. I go to the heal tool right here.
P29 - 12:44左侧的治愈工具。
And I'm going to increase my brush size until that It is just around the size enough to cover out a single logo, let’s zoom in a little bit more. So you can see what I'm doing. I take my heal brush and I just brush over the logo. And photoshop does the rest. I guess photoshop just knows that you are trying to get rid of an annoying logo. So because I only need to get this pile of wood right here, I'm only going to remove any of the lines that I see here on this pile of wood. I think that's a little bit smaller. And now our pile of wood is ready to go.
P29 - 13:25去除我需要部分图片的水印。
So I'm gonna go back and jump right into it. Use my lasso tool and take it out.
P29 - 13:30套索工具借来去除水印的元素。
It's kind of like a mini surgery on your photo bash. Pretty fun. now to make sure that you guys can take a bit of a brain break.
P29 - 13:40课程短大脑放松下。
And so this video doesn't get too long. I'll catch you guys in the next video. As we take this piece to a finish in terms of stitching, catch you there.
