B&W People in a Color World

[Justin]

Ok, can anyone please tell me the best possible way to create a B&W person in a color enviroment, ie. Pleasant Ville. Im guessing having the image doubled then adding a traveling matte in After Effects to the shape of the person on the above image and disaturating it. I havn't yet tried it, but I'm guessing its going to look very strange around the edges, probably flicker. I would say green screen, but we dont have the access nor do the traveling shots allow.
Does anyone out there have the answer! Again I want it to look as natural as possible. (Besides the no color thing)

[BLUESPIDER]

um, theres really a few ways of pulling this off correctly.

1. Rotoscoping, frame by frame masking.
2. Greenscreen/Bluescreen.

PleasantVille used rotoscoping. It's a lot of work and requires lots patience. good luck!

[Justin]

My only experience in creating a traveling mask for a special effect was using Final Cut's matte tool. Im guessing After Effects can pull it off much better and smoother?

[Justin]

Thanks Bluespider ;D

[BLUESPIDER]

[quote author=Justin link=board=AE;num=1106872221;start=0#2 date=01/27/05 at 18:23:00] Im guessing After Effects can pull it off much better and smoother?[/quote]

AE would be better but if you haven't tried Commotion Pro, it does a better job rotoscoping because of their advance beizer tools. Practice