Ben McEwan:
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Great work.
This was my first shot on Mank. My first taste of monochrome compositing.
Today I submitted a shot that should have been a WIP. I guess my point was to get ideas and direction. I should have said just that. Instead I submitted shot that needed work. It's ok to submit a shot that needs work but you need to state that upon submission.
Problem solving is hard. It's ok to ask for help.
For a shot of a map blowing away like cocaine, we shot baby powder in 10 minutes to get a good take while sims were going for days #mochat
This discussion on Twitter reminded me when Jim O'hagen was trying to fake blood spreading on a shirt. After a couple of hours of nothing. He got a camera from production and a paper towel. He shot water spreading into the paper towel. With that he had a matte for the effect. It worked great.
Greenscreen Composite
This was a shot that had a lot of problems. Rain in the greenscreen plates. Lights on cars that didn't look right. This was paint, roto and all the tricks in the bag. This was a ton of work for a simple greenscreen.
This shot was shared with Scott Davids.
I saw this the other day and thought to myself, this is great but you can do that samething right now. Heres how.
set cut_paste_input [stack 0]
version 7.0 v9
push $cut_paste_input
NoOp {
name FG_PLATE
selected true
xpos 142
ypos 33
}
set N15f060c0 [stack 0]
NoOp {
name Blue_or_green_palte
selected true
xpos -27
ypos 33
}
NoOp {
inputs 0
name Color_Corrected_Plate
selected true
xpos -137
ypos -35
}
Merge2 {
inputs 2
operation difference
name Merge1
selected true
xpos -137
ypos 33
}
Saturation {
saturation 0
name Saturation1
selected true
xpos -137
ypos 231
}
push $N15f060c0
Merge2 {
inputs 2
operation plus
name Merge2
selected true
xpos 142
ypos 231
}
Use a merge set to difference between the color corrected version and the non color corrected version. You then need to make it gray scale by desaturating the image. That will give you a dispill matte. You then plus this on top of your color corrected green screen plate. Then you can use the mix in the merge to control how much is added back in. This is also a knob in many dispill gizmos, it's called relight.
Enjoy.
There is some serious distortion.
Have a great weekend.
