Clip before any adjustments.
Hayley tried to fix the lighting in After Effects but wasn't able to do much with it, nor could I, so we both decided that it was to be done manually. Since Hayley had put the backgrounds in, I took control of fixing the lighting issues, and I chose to do this in Photoshop.
We shared multiple folders on Google Drive, so I downloaded them from Hayley's hard drive and noticed that every so often there was a darker frame, and sometimes four darker frames in a row. This was the reason for the flashing/extreme change in appearance, so I decided to import the darker ones into Photoshop and touch them up with the levels tool.
This was quite tedious to do because there were so many frames, and I wanted them to look as close in lighting as possible. We hadn't changed any lighting at all throughout our process so the reason why this happened is unknown to us. Nevertheless, I picked out the darker frames, and them imported another frame that was perfect as a reference and switched between the two until I found the perfect match! This actually wasn't too bad, and I ended up enjoying seeing the results so quickly!
I started with the first part of day 1 just to see if I could achieve the look I wanted and if it was worth levelling up the rest. Since I liked the results, I carried on and did the rest of the sheep first scene. There is still some slight flickering, but no where near as bad as before so I am very pleased with this!
And this is the second part of the first scene! Next I will do the same for the second scene, and send it to Hayley so she can put it with sound and a background!
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