is there a setting i’m missing, or is maya attempting to disrupt workflow in order to push smoke?
thanks in advance for the help.
What should I do for merging two masks by operators Multiply or Screen?
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My question is, I’ll be using the green screen. But should I try to shoot on a blue screen instead? Or have the background entirely black to pull a matte from it?
I know that in Alice in wonderland they shot most of the scenes using the greenscreen and a good amount of the actors had white on. What should I do??
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A tall young woman with slender figure but at the same time looking like a strong warrior. Read the project overview in ZBrush.
Of course…you can often separate the background from the foreground and use different lens blurs on them, without the z-channel hooked up to it. And then do the motion blur with motion vectors.
Another way is rendering everything in 3d, this is often too time consuming and also you as a compositor loose a lot of control.
A third way is adding a z-depth depth of field and then using a motion blur without using motion vectors.
There are times when you would want to control motion blur and Dof in the compositing using the channels (z-depth and motion vectors). As I see it the best would be "a blur" that you can input both z and motion and steer everything from the faceting in the bokeh to the shutter speed and generate a combined blur from that.
I haven’t worked in any big post houses. So I hope that someone out there has a great work flow for doing such a thing and are willing to share there experience :). Maybe there are lots of workarounds?
Here is a new commercial we did (and now in the right category 😉 )
BATELCO “Infinity” takes you on a journey through people´s minds in a visual effects-loaded interactive film which has been causing a stir on Facebook.
At over three minutes long, the film shows several protagonists as they re-imagine the world around them, which marks the global expansion of Batelco, a leading Middle East telecom provider. Bahrain-based agency FP7/BAH teamed up with Spyfilms, Canada and City Films, Beirut, German directing duo Alex & Steffen and the german posthouse Unexpected to create this film along Batelco´s proposition of ‘Bringing ideas to life’.
After its launch on Facebook with an interactive webcam layer it soon got more than 118.000 fans and even more views – over 2000 daily new ‘likes’, an average of 83,000 daily post views, over 1 million wall impressions up to date and fans from 43 countries across the globe.
Besides one single take where the RED camera was used (the shot with the opening elevator door and the skater) the whole film was shot by New York-based DoP Simon Coull on four Canons 7D, two 5Ds and the coolest gear like Eric Austin´s small camera helicopter from www.helivideo.com.
German-based studio Unexpected Postproduction produced over 100 visual effect shots for the film, ranging from small enhancements, sky replacements, digital animals and stunt-doubles to a subway transforming into a huge rollercoaster rushing inbetween high rise buildings, F1 racers chasing each other on city streets and futuristic gliders blasting through the city canyons. A large number of those shots are 100% CG as they would have been almost impossible to get in real life!
Spot:
http://vimeo.com/16918756
Making-of:
http://vimeo.com/16766688
Agency: FP7/BAH
Director: Alex & Steffen
DoP: Simon Coull
Production: City Films Production, Beirut
Executive Producer: Marc Hadife
Producer: Joyce Hadife
in collaboration with Spy Films, Toronto
Executive Producer: Carlo Trulli
Producer: Peter Oad
Postproduction: Unexpected GmbH, Stuttgart
VFX Supervisor: Alex & Steffen
Lead 3D Artists: Sebastian Badea, Jörg Häberle, Harun Celebi, Alexander Kiesl, Stefan Kleindienst, Marcel Kühn, Johannes Wünsch
Lead 2D Artists: Claus Rudolph, Steffen Hacker
Music by: AOC Paris
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