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  Explosion Composite onto Daylight environment?

  Posted by Zafer Mustafa on April 27, 2006 at 9:31 pm

  HI folks, here’s a question that i’m hoping someone can help me out with.

  Say I have a live daylit scene that i need to add an explosion onto…the explosion is from Artbeats, so a nice gas explosion on a black background.

  How do you folks treat this footage to make the comp sell? To date, i’ve only needed to do evening shots, so its been relatively easy, but the daylit scene clearly needs another solution.

  Any thoughts would be super welcome!

  Thanks a bunch!

  >Z<

  Zafer Mustafa replied 20 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Andrew Kramer

  April 27, 2006 at 10:21 pm

  Well…
  For day time stuff think about the following:

  1. It’s so bright outside that the explosion isn’t going to seem as “hot”, so instead of being totally blown out (whiter) you will want to bring the tendril detail back down and maybe use curves to give it a warmer look. (add some red gamma and take away a little blue gamma) also use the screen mode instead of add this way it will be less likely to blow out.

  2. If you look at day time explosions they do emit light so an exta ground matte with some increased orange brightness may help sell.

  3. Some camera shake definely is good.

  Something to think about.

  Andrew Kramer
  http://www.VideoCopilot.net
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  Zafer Mustafa

  April 28, 2006 at 12:11 am

  Understood Andrew, many thanks.

  >Z<

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