The Runner - VFX R&D (03) - compilation

A compilation of costume tests, blue-screen tests and location scouts that I have run through the VFX r&d department over the past month.

If this is blocked for you, check it out at http://www.vimeo.com/7910577

With each shot I set the usual challenge of getting it to a point I could put it in the edit, rather than taking it to completion and to do so within less than 4 hours. The idea being that after the film has been shot, there will be a couple of hundred sky-replacements and set extensions that will quickly need doing before we know what we're looking at.

All compositing was done in After Effects and editing was done in Final Cut Pro

music is 'Nailin, The Kelvin' by Michael Giacchino from the 'Star Trek OST' (2009)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Simon Herden
• Sean Lahiff
• Heavily Armed Productions
• visual fx
• vfx
• guns
• war zone
• sky replacements
• blue screen
• compositing
• final cut pro
• after effects
• andrew kramer
• video co-pilot
• adelaide
• short film
• sci-fi
• action

[SKonicki77]

rotoscoping that field must've taken...for...ever...

[hapmoriarty]

No rotoscoping in the field shot at all. Part of the test for that was to see how much I could achieve without roto. That shot is entirely luma and chroma keys applied to the sky with a lil matte cleanup. (normally i'd roto though)

[FayeValentine1]

You've come a long way from lightsaber duel's and dragonball blasts in the vacant block as a kid. That was cool.

[hapmoriarty]

hehehe, had to start somewhere :) thanks! and this is stuff i kind of spat out as proof of concepts to make sure we weren't insane for attempting it.

but i still do like lightsabers a whole lot!

[maximumpickle]

Oh man... this looks good :D

[1981z28camaro]

@hapmoriarty nice, thanks for the info! :-)

I'll have to keep that in mind :-)

[hapmoriarty]

@1981z28camaro hey camaro - RazaKator was on the money. The idea behind any blue/green/purple screen is that the colour (often referred to as chroma blue or chroma green etc) is a colour that will not occur naturally. This allows you to select that range of colour in post to remove it from your image.

You can make one yourself. I've done shots with $20 of blue fabric stretched out in the background. The higher resolution the camera, the better, but any will do essentially.

[1981z28camaro]

@RazaKator cool, thanks for the reply :-)

[RazaKator]

@1981z28camaro I know that using green screen is important because the color is different from other colors on common clothes and etc, about blue screen idk, maybe is the same thing

[1981z28camaro]

Why is using a blue screen important?

I think I remember hearing that camera's don't pick up the color blue (Certain shade of blue of course) is that why?

what if someone wants to create their own blue screen set...how much does that cost?

and what camera's are recommended?

Thanks!

[SKonicki77]

Fantastic job man. Obvious you're a pro.

[josediogomafra]

hi, i like this video allot, i want to ask you iff you can do a tutorial on how to make that first image... the atmosfere, background and color correction, because im going to start a movie in school and i want to learn every thinkg i can before it, perfect image 100\100