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Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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Wed, 3 Jan 2001 03:50:19 GMT
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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 subject and is spread out more. Having the lights at a
low angle helps, too. It would be great if one could place a light where the
camera is, because then the shadow would be hidden by the subject itself.
Unfortunately, given the size of the camera and the lamps, that wasn't
possible.

-- Marc

In lugnet.publish.cinema, Jeff Johnston writes:


Marc Atkin wrote:

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 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.

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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(...) Well I know from movies the screens are a special fabric and theye are very large and usually quite some distance from the subject. They don't use any special lighting though just a lot of it to have the curtian evenly lit. Now, I did turn on (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)

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(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)

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