Greenscreen
In this segment of Show Us Your Shot, visual effects supervisor Adam C. Sager discusses how the team behind the 2018 Tribeca-selected, stop-motion animated short film, Two Balloons, utilized green-screen compositing to isolate and combine various shot elements together into seamless compositions.
Writer/Director/Producer: Mark Smith
Animation Director: Teresa Drilling
Art Director: Kathleen Chamberlain
Director of Photography: Reijean Heringlake
Motion Control Operators: Mark Eifert, Jim Birkett
Special Effects Supervisor: Javan Ivey
The test involved an actor, dressed in a cowboy outfit, lighting up and smoking a cigar. The test was done late in the day, with no additional lights, and we were racing against the sun. The green screen we had was a little bit on the pale/unsaturated side, but we went ahead with it anyway. We imported the footage into Final Cut Pro and applied the Keyer effect.
Most of it was working well, except there were some areas that were bleeding through the image so we tried to clean that up with the addition of masks/garbage mattes. You can see where