Topic: An interesting way to do mirrors

While I was working on my brickfilm, Stalker: Mirror of Conscience, I figured out a few ways to do a mirror.

So, First step: create a greenscreen behind the empty square of the mirror, like this:

http://i.imgur.com/bd2XLY5.jpg

Now, take the shots from this side of the mirror:

http://i.imgur.com/sPQZeJq.jpg

After that, rebuild the place as a mirror WITHOUT MOVING THE CAMERA, something like this:

http://i.imgur.com/cXOkrok.jpg

NOTE: The character's position might not have to be at an exactly mirror position as before. You might move it in order to be able to see it from the perspective of the shot:

http://i.imgur.com/CJj74VZ.jpg

Now, remembering the exact number of shots and exactly what happenned in each shot, reshoot the scene:

http://i.imgur.com/Jrj9ndd.jpg

Now, carefully put together the two takes, and you will get a thing like this:

http://i.imgur.com/c9NTVyo.jpg

Ta-daaa! You've got the mirror!
Anyhow,  maybe it's a very obvious thing, I don't know, I just felt too happy to having figured it out to not post it on BiM.
Be sure to check out here for updates to my upcoming brickfilm, from where I sourced the material of this topic, here:
http://www.bricksinmotion.com/forums/po … 5/#p348275

Re: An interesting way to do mirrors

I'm curious to know why you didn't just use an actual mirror? I understand this may cause reflection of the camera, but I think that's easier to get rid of than animating the whole scene again.

Re: An interesting way to do mirrors

LMDigitalMovies wrote:

I'm curious to know why you didn't just use an actual mirror? I understand this may cause reflection of the camera, but I think that's easier to get rid of than animating the whole scene again.

oh... yeah... because what you see in the mirror at some point is spoilerific...

Re: An interesting way to do mirrors

That is an interesting way to do it, sure, but you could make it a lot easier by simply animating both shots at the same time. I suppose this would be beneficial if you're really low on certain, specific bricks, but other than that I can't really see any pros to this.

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Re: An interesting way to do mirrors

Littlebrick wrote:

That is an interesting way to do it, sure, but you could make it a lot easier by simply animating both shots at the same time. I suppose this would be beneficial if you're really low on certain, specific bricks, but other than that I can't really see any pros to this.

Exactly... I didn't have the same bricks twice, so I couldnt simultaneously do the animation.... plus by giving a slightly different lighting to the second take I noticed it gives an enhanced "mirror effect"

Re: An interesting way to do mirrors

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