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Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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lugnet.animation
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Wed, 3 Jan 2001 03:22:33 GMT
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Marc Atkin wrote:
> Hey Joe,
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> Although my camera also has a "green screen" option, I didn't use it for the
> movies (so I can't judge whether or not your camera sucks :). I used the green
> screen option provided by Final Cut Pro, a high-end ($1000) movie editing
> package for the Mac. Even so, I'm not totally satisfied with the results. Final
> Cut Pro has lots of settings you can adjust, but it was still hard to make only
> the background and not the actual image transparent. Especially shadows cast by
> the image on the green screen were a problem. For the green screen I used
> pieces of green poster board.
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> Let me know if you can figure out something that works better!
If I remember right, blue or green screens used in movies are backlit or something
so that shadows don't show up on them. I've had the same problem, and it takes a
lot of editing with the 'magic wand' selector in Painter to get rid of the
background and not the foreground. I've been pondering experimenting with
different lighting to 'fill in' the shadows and thus lessen the problem.
J
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| That sounds like a good idea. I did that to some extent, using three lamps arrayed around the subject. What I also did was mount the subject at some distance from the screen (on a thin pole), so that the bulk of the shadow falls far away from the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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| Hey Joe, Although my camera also has a "green screen" option, I didn't use it for the movies (so I can't judge whether or not your camera sucks :). I used the green screen option provided by Final Cut Pro, a high-end ($1000) movie editing package (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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