HVX key for 2.5-D Music Video Compositing

HVX key for 2.5-D Music Video Compositing

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Rizon3rday

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Hey Guys,

My posts on here are few and far between, but I wanted to take a moment and let you guys know that I just wrapped up a couple music videos both shot on greenscreen.

Chicago is a video that places the artist (Andy Davis) in a 2.5-D environment made up of stills that we took in Chicago. The key worked flawlessly, of course changing everything to b/w made spill issues irrelevant.

Earth and Venus is a video where the artist sings to a distant love represented by the planet Venus. By the end of the video he jumps up into the stars and climbs his way up to her to finally give her a kiss. This shoot was a little more involved since we needed a 16ft. jib arm to get the high angle moving shots we needed. Considering we only had one day to shoot, lighting was hurried..so the keys took a considerable amount of roto to fine tune.

Each video had 1 production day...so they turned out to be very long! But I think it paid off.

Let me know what you think!

Also, which one do you guys like best?


If you are interested looking at a short behind the scenes clip of each video here they are. (You can tell we were goofing off a little too much...)

Chicago - Behind the Scenes

Earth and Venus - Behind the Scenes
 
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very very nice! (only watched chicago so far). Did you compose the layers in C4D (or similar) or After Effects? ...or something completely different?
 
These are both excellent. I voted Earth and Venus only because I thought the interaction with VFX was more realistic. The starwalk gags had me guessing and I totally missed the rock wall (though the posts I did guess).

Chicago is amazing as well. I've only scratched the surface of 2d motion tracking and this piece is simply overwhelming to look at from a deconstructionist standpoint!

Both music tracks are really tight and I'm looking for some of Andy Davis' releases. Great stuff, thanks for sharing.

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MarcMalkowski said:
very very nice! (only watched chicago so far). Did you compose the layers in C4D (or similar) or After Effects? ...or something completely different?
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Everything was composed/composited in After Effects. I think we really did stretch the capabilities of AE's image buffer. Especially when adding multiple scenes together. We were going to try to do seamless transitions for Chicago, but it ended up taking too long, and the stuff we shot would only allow us to go so far. This goes to show you that pre-pro is invaluable!

We did do a bit of pre-pro involving use taking stills of ourselves as place holders for the artist. Then built the scenes around them to give us an idea of how the lighting would need to be during production. This helped alot! But towards the end (the spin around shot) things were still in limbo..so we tried to make do with what we shot. Oh yeah, one more thing. Make sure you shoot plenty of coverage! as we had next to none..so our shot selections were almost identical to the animatics we made (which isn't nessessarily a bad thing, but it just wasn't flexible enough to get crazy with the edit.)
 
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