Here is a short entry for a change. I just did another test key of Lumbar Laura dancing. I was worried about how well her hair would key, because even though I wetted it down with water to reduce the amount of stray hairs flying about, it was still not a solid object. Fortunately, it worked very well. Keylight is amazing! I tried the trick with the blurring chroma information with an adjustment layer, and it does help a little bit, but there is actually a parameter of Keylight which accomplishes the same thing.
Also present in the following video is a very rough composite of some of that gross mud with worms crawling around in it warped with a cheesy liquify effect (I would do this better if this were a serious composite), and some TV static generated with the Bad TV plugin from the excellent Tinderbox plugin collection. This just a very short clip, so don’t spend too much time waching it…
I was thinking about the more not so perfect footage, and in the context of my approach and the style of this crazy music video, nothing is beyond usefulness. Thus, I will use and manipulate pretty much any footage I capture, even if it doesn’t look perfect, as long as I can exploit its imperfections towards a useful and legitamate goal.
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Here is a short entry for a change. I just did another test key of Lumbar Laura dancing. I was worried about how well her hair would key, because even though I wetted it down with water to reduce the amount of stray hairs flying about, it was still not a solid object. Fortunately, it worked very well. Keylight is amazing! I tried the trick with the blurring chroma information with an adjustment layer, and it does help a little bit, but there is actually a parameter of Keylight which accomplishes the same thing.
Also present in the following video is a very rough composite of some of that gross mud with worms crawling around in it warped with a cheesy liquify effect (I would do this better if this were a serious composite), and some TV static generated with the Bad TV plugin from the excellent Tinderbox plugin collection. This just a very short clip, so don’t spend too much time waching it…
I was thinking about the more not so perfect footage, and in the context of my approach and the style of this crazy music video, nothing is beyond usefulness. Thus, I will use and manipulate pretty much any footage I capture, even if it doesn’t look perfect, as long as I can exploit its imperfections towards a useful and legitamate goal.