In 1898, he created a film Un homme de têtes (A man of heads) which featured on of the first known use of multiple exposures of the same object. As an illusionist, it is no wonder that he was intrigued by what one could do with a camera and wanted to create magic using film as his medium. Georges Méliès was a French director and illusionist who pioneered many techniques in filmmaking in the early 1900s.
Speaking of floating heads, let’s take a journey back in time to when visual effects were still at a nascent stage and explore the history of compositing for films. For example, a character playing a floating head may be dressed entirely in blue so that only the head is composited. Naturally, it goes without saying that the characters avoid wearing clothing that matches the backdrop, unless of course, that part of the character is meant to be blurred out or dissolved into the screen. The blue or green backdrop is entirely replaced by alternate background video or CGI.
VISUAL EFFECTS COMPOSITING SKIN
Have you ever wondered why the sets are draped in blue or green instead of any other colour? Blue or green backdrops are used for shooting live action footage that is due to be composited as they are the colours believed to be the farthest away from human skin tones making it easy to fill in a background without blurring the main characters out of the screen.
VISUAL EFFECTS COMPOSITING MOVIE
We’ve all seen pictures or footage of actors working in front of a completely blue or green backdrop and then seen what the final outcome is in a movie with the details filled in. Chroma key techniques and green screens are all used to shoot live action shots that are later composited to create a scene for a movie. In simple words, compositing is a process in making visual effects whereby visual elements from separate sources are combined into a single image, creating the illusion that all the different elements are a part of the same scene.
Here’s looking at one such all-important aspect – Compositing. VFX has so many subsets and smaller elements that come together to produce awe-inspiring on-screen magic that we sometimes fail to acknowledge these cogs in the wheel.
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