Production Door and Pinnygig: Paper Removal, Inking Preperation and Background Compositing Scripts

For 'Door' and 'Pinnygig' a keying system was needed to convert the original image captures into something that gave a clean black on white line image, on which color could easily be applied to in photoshop. The images also needed alpha channels around the characters so they could be composited over desired backgrounds as a sequence rather than frame by frame.

The scripts I produced in Shake greatly increased quality and production speed of these projects.

The script took the high resolution raw images:

Then it cropped waist paper so the image was the correct 16:9 ratio, then applied a series of corrections in order to create pure black and white images which creates imagery.



The image was then inked and the eyes colored green so that the pure white could be isolated and removed, and then any background could be composited under the image


Here is a breakdown of the scripts made:




Aspects of the first script where made by Dean Wray but where not idea, I use certain aspects of his script to generate a bespoke solution for the projects.
(the log lin node was his design).