Rickster’s post-production tips #1. For those of you not familiar with chroma keying it’s a method of removing a background and replacing it with something else using a colour as a way of selecting the bit you want to remove. The coloured background card in the example above. Notice how the shot doesn’t move? This is a prerequisite for keying easily, until you get into the world of tracking that is, but more on that later.
Something strange is afoot in Fitzrovia. Someone is distributing photos around the area showing before and after photos of the BT tower, one dated in the future with the tower missing. What’s it all about? There’s also a link to this Facebook page, which doesn’t seem to offer any more clues right now..
Occasionally you see something that makes you want to applaud. This commercial for Amnesty International is such a thing. The only question that remains is did they do it for real or is it 3D rendered? I leave that for you to decide.
I keep telling everybody about these, so I’ve gathered them all onto one page for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!
rickster.co.uk went live on the 1st of March 2010 and I’ve stumbled my way up the pop charts (a.k.a. Google) and finally hit the summit. Not bad for three months work. (see how I’m doing today here) Now, where the hell did I put the flag? Of course before we all get too excited I feel I should point out that the search term “Rickster” is hardly that common – If I’d managed to get my site to be the […]
So you’re a scentist and you mess around with weather balloons for a living. Then one day you think, “I could attach a video camera to it.” This is the result. It also says a lot for the robustness of the GoPro cameras.
Maybe I should just a whole album of video “Great Train Trips” I could call it “Great Train Trippy’s of the World” or something.. Here’s the evolution of the previous idea. Covering the join between the two flipped over videos to see if we can “sell” the idea a bit more. It sort of works even in this very crude state I think. For those that missed it the original “Train Trippy” is here. The more prosaic “TrainTrip at Brookside […]
There’s a new flavour on Tic Tac on the block called “Teal & Orange” designed especially for Hollywood colourists to consume whilst grading their latest blockbuster. If none of this makes any sense at all you should probably be thanking your lucky stars for not noticing or getting a colour blindness test. Here are some relevant links: Teal & Orange Teal & Orange P2 My Original Blog Post
I’d like a QuickTime please… There are approximately 9680 different answers to this question as I’ve mentioned at length in a previous blog post. Jack has engaged with my pain about creating QuickTime files. Perhaps we should push forward with a marketing campaign to push the message to the masses?
