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Video editor Patrick Sterling magic mask This week, we’ll use the power of Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve software to create a custom effect that creates a textured animation of a person. at NVIDIA Studio.
“I wanted to use a ‘magic mask’ to replace the subject with a textured and simplified cut-out version,” says the artist. “The style is reminiscent of construction paper pieces the viewer may have played with as a child, keeping the energy of the scene while distracting attention from the specific features of the subject.”
Sterling’s first attempt to implement this effect was aborted prematurely due to the limitations of his six-year-old system. So Sterling built the first custom PC with a GeForce RTX 4080 GPU to tackle this challenge. The difference was day and night, he said.
“It’s a lot easier to find and maintain a creative flow without feeling like you’re constantly hitting a wall and waiting for your system to catch up,” Sterling said. increase.
“The raw power of RTX GPUs is amazing, but the work NVIDIA is doing to improve working with DaVinci Resolve is especially impressive. Very reassuring.”—Patrick Sterling
AI-equipped magic mask The ability to quickly select objects and people in a scene is accelerated by his RTX 4080 GPU, delivering up to 2x AI performance over the previous generation. “The GPU also provides the power the DaVinci Neural Engine needs for some of these very good effects,” Stirling said.
Stirling opened the short clip inside DaVinci Resolve’s RTX GPU-accelerated Fusion page, a node-based workflow with hundreds of 2D and 3D tools. Nodes are popular because they make video editing a fully procedural process, allowing for non-linear and non-destructive workflows.
He opened two windows side-by-side to view his edits in real time. You can see the original footage on the left and the node changes on the right.
Sterling drew a blue line to apply magic mask On each side of the subject he wants to superimpose. as its name suggests, magic mask It works like magic, but it’s not perfect. He drew a second red line to designate what, if more effects than the extended jacket layer masked, Sterling. no capture in that area.
He applied similar techniques to dress shirts, hands, beards, hair and facial skin.The artist then added a generic colored background Background Place nodes on each layer to complete the 2D character.
use sterling merge Use a node to combine background and foreground images.hello high speed noise I used nodes to create two types of textures, one for the 2D man and one for the real footage, to increase the visual contrast.
Sterling then added a color corrector to tweak the saturation, and his RTX GPU sped up the process. hello, magic mask Effects and all remaining nodes — Background, merge and high speed noise.
When finishing the project, Starling can roll out dual AV1 video encoders on the RTX 4080 GPU. This cuts the export time in half.
Sterling encourages aspiring content creators to “stay curious” and “don’t ignore the value of connecting with other creative people.”
“Being regularly around people doing the same kind of work always reveals new methods and approaches for one’s creative projects,” he said.
For DaVinci Resolve tutorials, visit Stirling’s YouTube channel.
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