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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:
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> Marc Atkin wrote:
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> > 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!
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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
> 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 (...) (26 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 (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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