• Adobe After Effects

  Rotoscope or key?

  Posted by Paul Hasler on April 24, 2014 at 11:21 pm

  Hi,
  I have to composite a person multiple times in a scene that is meant to be in a dark room. See example storyboard image for one possible shot.

  

  What would be the best approach to this for filming and compositing. Shoot on dark set or chroma key? Rotoscope or key?

  Thanks
  Paul

  Paul Hasler replied 12 years, 4 months ago 49,995 Members · 2 Replies
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  Paul Hasler

  April 25, 2014 at 1:09 am

  Hi Dave thanks for the response.

  There will be no fog in the shot. The image was a little stylised. Basically the scene will be a main character who walks and interacts with another (himself) in a dark room while surrounded by identical characters. The scene will have many varying shots where you will need to see the faces of some characters and not of others from different angles. I was thinking of filming the sequence with the main character first and then filming the same actor from the various angles to composite into the shots as the identical people standing around.

  If the room didn’t need to be so dark I would do it all chroma key. I am just concerned I will get too much reflected light on the actor from the chroma key and it may be more work in post trying to remove the excess light spill.

  What do you think?
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  Paul Hasler

  April 25, 2014 at 2:02 am

  Yep I have a lot of planning to get this right but I am persistant and do love the challenge. Thanks for the help.

  Paul

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