Compositing in 30 seconds

Hey guys, I'm back with another short video. The dinosaur footage in this was going to be in a film I was making but I don't think I'll have time to finish anything until the end of the year.

This is just a short video showing my green/blue screen (which I might add is just a cheap $1.20 bit of blue paper!) and how I add my dinosaur into a live action shot. There are a few extra tricks that I did to match the lighting later on, but you get the basic idea of how it's done.

I hope I can make a full lenght film with this guy included. Although I'm not sure when it will be out as I'm busy at the moment but I'll be sure to post my new stuff up later in 2010 or 2011.

Hope you enjoy this film. Also if you have any questions about stop motion or animation in general just ask and I'd be happy to help.

TheCyberController

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[Gloppy605]

What editing software do you use?

[TheCyberController]

@Gloppy605 For this I used a few programs, for the effects I used FXhome, and for the music and titles, I used Ulead.

[Dinozilla626]

Could u please tell me how u got the dino behind part of the green screen background?

[TheCyberController]

@Dinozilla626 , Sure I can. It was by using what is known in film as a "matte" (or a mask). Basically you select a region on the backplate image which you can then move infront or behind another film object.

[Gragorathegiantsnowb]

When do you think youll be done with your next film? I cant wait to see it!

[TheCyberController]

Well...I wouldn't hold your breath for it. It might be some time. I'm doing work for uni in the next 6 weeks, so I have no time. I might have time after uni finishes. I was thinking on making a few new puppets and filming the process of making them, just to help people out.

I might finish a film sometime next year at about a similar time to when I finished Nightmare-a-saurus this year. So keep tuned and thanks for asking. It's always nice to hear that people enjoy my films.

[Dinozilla626]

@TheCyberController Sorry for taking so long, but thank you very much. That has answered a lot of questions I ask myself.

[FrozenGothic]

Cool.

[TheCyberController]

Thank you

[TheCyberController]

I wouldn't say you have horrible vision....more like my video camera has a bad video sensor...I really should get it fixed.