Yesterday was a very productive day. I finished three scenes and completed the animation for this Science Aggression Animation. This morning I just need to paint the arms and move on to the next scene. Science aggression is a very real thing, and the aggressors have won. All basic attempts to curb the spread of the COVID Virus have been dropped. As a result there is a late summer surge in cases with no testing in place.
New vaccines will be available in September but several new variants are already so mutated that the vaccines will be useless against them. Long COVID continues to disable children and adults alike. You do not need to be vulnerable to develop long COVID.
On the plus side, the economy is purring along. The economy is any politician’s primary focus.
Anyway, back to this scene. I know that this arm animation will be a devil to composite into the final scene. I am using green screens but the glove is green and therefor will become partially transparent. I think a blue screen will change the color of the glove. Transparency is a bear I have yet to tackle. Callipeg has a format called HEVC with an Alpha channel but it does not open in After Effects. I need to find some plug in that converts the HEVC file into something that After Effects can recognize.
I have never tried importing the HEVC file into Premiere but I suspect the same problem will occur. I will try that today. I will try that today, I will do most of the compositing in After Effects and then export it without the arm animation. I will then try and line up the animation in Premiere. It seems insane that I have to jump through so many hoops to try and export an animated scene with transparency.