• Adobe After Effects

  Unique Chroma Key Question

  Posted by Kai Kloepfer on January 10, 2014 at 12:48 am

  Hi,

  Fist post here, but I have been following Creative Cow for a number of years now and thought this would be a good place to ask for help.

  I am trying to have someone sit on a chroma key background in some way. The character is a king, and we don’t have the budget to actually buy a throne, so I would like to create one digitally. I’m just not sure how to do it.

  The camera can thankfully be stationary for the shot so the background can be static. Do I need to create a throne shaped object out of my chroma key color and apply my design to the 3D surface? IF do how would I do that in AE?

  Any input is helpful, I have done chroma key work before including pretty complex simultaneous camera and actor moment, just never with someone sitting. I don’t even know what terms I would Google for to find more information about something like this.

  Thanks,
  Kai Kloepfer

  Kai Kloepfer replied 12 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Joseph W. bourke

  January 10, 2014 at 1:40 am

  Kai –

  Here are some things which will help you out – with a locked off shot, the only issue will be matching the scene to the king as far as lighting and camera angle:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Ky_52CzuA

  Here’s where that source material comes from – a full education on chroma keying:

  https://www.hollywoodcamerawork.us/greenscreenplates.html

  Joe Bourke
  Owner/Creative Director
  Bourke Media
  http://www.bourkemedia.com
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  Kai Kloepfer

  January 17, 2014 at 5:28 pm

  Joe-

  Thanks for that video, it really set me off on the right track.

  Thanks,
  Kai Kloepfer

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