A Green Screen Challenge!!!

[armisiano]

I'd like to propose an After Effects Green Screen Challange.
Long story short I'm having a heck of a time creating a satisfying result with a shot of mine that requires keylighting out the backdrop (I know the source material isn't the best to work with, trust me, I'm fully aware). So I'm posting two images below. A screen grab of the foreground, and a screen grab of the background.

Using After Effects, try to create the best looking result you can, and post it here. Don't worry about explaining the process, we'll get to that later. Thanks!!! Now go kick some AE butt!!!

Foreground:

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http://hphotos-snc6.fbcdn.net/172830_197139203644048_100000439104226_676414_5110713_o.jpg


Background:

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http://hphotos-snc6.fbcdn.net/175431_197138030310832_100000439104226_676409_7650570_o.jpg

 

[arniepix]

Three little words...

Blondes on Blue...

 

[Kevin Lee]

Yep the hair is difficult to work with on green!!

 

[xenogears]

I love the test!

 

[armisiano]

Three little words...

Blondes on Blue...

Yeah, I realized this a couple months later when it was time to edit. Hey, learn as you go I suppose.

 

[armisiano]

I love the test!

It's a bit on the blurry side, by may have potential. Did you use the full res (1920x1080) images, or just the smaller ones?

 

[armisiano]

I'd still love to see what more people can do with this.

 

[xenogears]

It's a bit on the blurry side, by may have potential. Did you use the full res (1920x1080) images, or just the smaller ones?

I use the Full resolution images, but just 5 mins of time

Cheers

 

[handsome pete]

Some decent results so far, but the question is how will any of these hold up to motion.

 

[xenogears]

Some decent results so far, but the question is how will any of these hold up to motion.

True.

 

[Dbldwndrew]

Blonds on blue. Now you tell me. Good to know really good to know.

 

[Mr Blue]

The hardest part is the lower right of her hair. If she were moving the matted look won't be as prevalent.

 

[armisiano]

Finally stumbled across results I'm happy with. Nothings too blurry, I can see all the strands of hair, and I don't run into any green edges.

 

[armisiano]

In case anyone's curious, that was the closeup. The wide shot is below. The wide I had less troubles with, though the composition as a whole was much more complicated.

 

[Stuie]

I just had to give it a try. Just a straight composite without tweaking color, lights, etc. It took about 2 minutes to do. I'm sure I could tweak it even more, but didn't have the time.

 

[armisiano]

Stuie, believe it or not that's what I ended up doing mostly as well. It seemed at first that I, as well as the other few people who tried their hand at it, went into the composite thinking "PERFECTION MUST BE ACHIEVED", and what happened was we ended up using all the extra tricks and tools and everything we could to make it seemless, and in the end it only kept getting shades of worse. When I finally stepped back, and erased the keylight effect from that layer, and all the work I had done, and started FRESH, I realized that practically right out of the can the effect worked nearly the best.