Green Screen
You know how you are watching tv or are at the movies and think “How did that person stand in front of that flaming building without getting burned?” Yeah, a little thing called Green Screen was probably in the mix.
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April 4 2012
Persephone: Colorful Transition
Working on Persephone (Mark Roush’s short film about a girl made of chocolate) has brought the opportunity to create a look that is painterly and dreamy. I have been creating CG backgrounds from 3D sets that are then treated in 2D for a more painted look and feel. In working on transitions among the shots, I have been exploring the opportunity to introduce more organic and painterly transitions. How does it move? What is the color palette and timing? How does paint move, or is…
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March 6 2012
Mmm…Chocolatey!
One thing people who know me well know about me is this…I’m cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Actually that isn’t entirely true, I was never allowed to get chocolate cereal as a kid, and if I had been, I would have totally gone for Count Chocula. But it is true that I have chocolate on the brain these days, and that’s owed in no small part to the work we’ve been doing here at the shop on Mark Roush’s short film Persephone. In the free association, free range pathways of my mind,…
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November 9 2011
The Beat Goes On
Dear Readers, If you’ve been following along in these pages, you know that ADi has taken on a creative VFX gig for an independent short in collaboration with Mark Roush of New Adjustment. We’ve been taking a workmanlike approach to the green screen keying, trying to knock out a few shots every week as we develop the look and feel for the backgrounds and our “hero” chararacter (more on the mist demon to follow). ADi’s Art Director, Vince Nimmor, has done the lion’s share of the keying–all of it, really–and while…
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April 5 2011
Animation versus Video
Ok, you know you need to have a “Video” whether it’s on your company website or YouTube or Facebook. Video is the fastest growing data type out there. Now you can watch high quality video even on your phone. If there was ever a time to make the leap and make an investment, this is it. So, how do you decide when to use video and when to use animation? We get this question all the time, so, from our perspective, here are some things to consider: What does every successful project…
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March 17 2010
Reference Footage
In the days before scientists and designers invented motion capture, we character animators were drunk on reference footage. The first reference footage was taken by a photographer named Muybridge to settle a gentleman’s bet. The bet was whether or not, when a horse was running, all four of it’s legs left the ground at any moment during the run. He set up a series of cameras along the track and connected each one to a trip wire. When the horse hit the wire, the camera snapped a photo, and the…
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