compositing isn't that hard, if you have the right shots, it's pretty easy to put the final shot together.
I did comp for a couple tv cartoons for a year. There's a few spots where you can tell they've layered different shots together because the perspective doesn't line up, or they've just put too much junk on the beach so you can see the perspective not quite working or just a bit too much lens/motion blur here and there.
All you need in those shots (exactly what they did with the green screen) is a clear, clean edge, they basically used the sky in some shots instead of needing a green screen. And they used the screens in shots where they had too much color variation to do a clean cut.
And the rest in aftereffects or other off the shelf software, just comes together like a photoshop file with layers.
Greenscreen is pretty easy now anyways, it's just magic wand selection/deletes with a bit of cleanup involved.
But for 4 days 3 guys and probably a few hundred bucks, they got themselves a pretty good production.
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I wonder if they took sand from the beach when they did the explosions.
Yarr, this is in the Thread of Awesomeness.
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Ahhh sorry about that. I must have missed it. My bad. i know a lot of people don't check that thread out so I figured I would post it here.
I did comp for a couple tv cartoons for a year. There's a few spots where you can tell they've layered different shots together because the perspective doesn't line up, or they've just put too much junk on the beach so you can see the perspective not quite working or just a bit too much lens/motion blur here and there.
All you need in those shots (exactly what they did with the green screen) is a clear, clean edge, they basically used the sky in some shots instead of needing a green screen. And they used the screens in shots where they had too much color variation to do a clean cut.
And the rest in aftereffects or other off the shelf software, just comes together like a photoshop file with layers.
Greenscreen is pretty easy now anyways, it's just magic wand selection/deletes with a bit of cleanup involved.
But for 4 days 3 guys and probably a few hundred bucks, they got themselves a pretty good production.