This was a job completed at Tandem Films
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I worked on a few shots for this advert, but my main shot starts at about 12 seconds. In this shot the carrot dives onto the grater leaving specks of carrot on the table for the small brush to sweep up. The shots were filmed with an Arri camera, and for the stop motion Dragon was used. I had four shots that made up this sequence, a background plate, one with the tomatoes moving in the bowl, the brush sweeping, and the grater and carrot. Each item had a metal rig to allow it to be animated these were quite large and had a tendency to cast shadows across the set also making it difficult to isolate the objects shadows. Rather than the traditional method of removing the rig to show through the clean background I opted to cut out the objects. This was decided after a quick test, I realized that all the soft shadows from the rigging would also need removing and the two pieces of video were not matching seamlessly. Once each item had been isolated, I worked on creating the shadows that were in the original shots. These were mostly roto’d in using soft masks and an adjustment layer but some original shadows were kept.