How the hell did they…?

[Malcolm Desoto]

Ask Spike Jonze.

Chroma keyed blue boards? rotoscoping? Who knows? He’s rich. He can pay people to do whatever tedius work that he needs.

[Malcolm Desoto]

*tedious

[Steve Roberts]

This has been discussed. Search the COW posts for “skateboard”.

[David Franklin]

It has been discussed, but not exhaustively.

Reading the previous thread, I agree with whoever suggested that they used “Mokey” from Imagineering Systems. We saw a demo from them at the AENY user group last week where they took an orange cone out of moving camera footage where it crossed in front of a guy riding a tractor.

It would, of course, involve lots of cash as I understand this product is in the MANY thousands of dollars range. But the demo lasted 5 minutes and even drawing quick and dirty splines, the finished effect looked superb.

So if you had time, gave the guys green boards to ride, and then used this heavy technology, you wouldn’t need motion control cameras, and it would wind up looking pretty similar to what’s here.

Love the video, though. Thanks for posting the question so I got to see it…

[Steve Roberts]

My point is: I seem to recall seeing a “behind the scenes” video of this on the web, and it was mentioned in a COW post.

[David Franklin]

Point taken. I hope my post didn’t seem rude.

Thanks for the heads up on the behind the scenes thing — now I’ll go looking for that…

[Steve Roberts]

Not at all. 🙂