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White cyc with compositing, half white cyc, half green screen
Hello all,
We have an upcoming studio shoot and the majority of our live action subjects need to live in a infinite white space, so go with a white cyc, no brainer right?
The issue is that we will need to incorporate pretty heavily motion graphics/CG/animation and comp more or less every shot with actors in it, so go with a green screen cyc, right?
The issue is that we’d like to capture the practical shadows of our subjects on the white floor, but still have the flexibility to comp in elements behind our subjects as well as move them around in virtual space.
One solution that my creative team, who, by the way, are by no means CG or compositing experts, came up with was to have the bottom half of the studio painted white with a white cyc and then have the top half painted green. This doesn’t seem like a very practical solution to me, given the crazy amounts of spill that will thrown onto a white floor.
So apart from a ridiculous amount of roto in a completely white space, how do I achieve the flexibility in comping I need from a green screen? I’m playing around with the idea of using a difference matte and shooting locked off plates to pull out our shadows, but I’m not really 100% confident that would really work.
We’re shooting on a VariCam 3700 out via dual link 444 to a cinedeck to prores 4444 and our DP is very experienced with shooting green screens, so I’m not too concerned about getting clean data. I’d like to get a handle on what I need to be pushing for before anyone goes off and paints a half green, half white room and leaves me with a bunch of footage I can’t use.
Thank you for your time.
-Graham
OSX 10.6.8
AE CS5
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 16 GB RAM -
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Hi Dave,
I’m on CS5 at the moment. Is there an appreciable difference between the rotobrush tool in CS5.5 compared to CS5?
I’m familiar with the tool, although I haven’t really dug deep into it just yet.
Thanks.
-Graham
OSX 10.6.8
AE CS5
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 16 GB RAM -
Yeah, test footage would be nice. Unfortunately we don’t own the camera and the space we’re using is rented.
I’ll see what I can get together between now and next week.
Right now I can work with some royalty free stock footage of some white screens, though they’re all photo-jpeg quicktimes, so not exactly the same as what we’re capturing.
Thanks.
-Graham
OSX 10.6.8
AE CS5
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 16 GB RAM -
[Graham Hutchins] “One solution that my creative team, who, by the way, are by no means CG or compositing experts, came up with was to have the bottom half of the studio painted white with a white cyc and then have the top half painted green. This doesn’t seem like a very practical solution to me, given the crazy amounts of spill that will thrown onto a white floor.”
I would be really, really unexcited about this workflow.
I’d rather do full green-screen and fake the shadows.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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