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I am a film buff who enjoys discussions of “old school” SFX, so thanks for posting this.
Good history lesson. Thank you.
Green is way more received by the human eye, hence the 2x green in the Bayer mask.
Thanks for posting. I love Filmmaker IQ.
I’ve always been a big fan of “Sunrise” (1927) since I first saw it, thirty years ago. Paid a fortune for a bootleg video copy. I’d forgotten they’d utilized a matte/black-screen effect. Many if not most of the optical tricks in the film involved clever perspectives created via set-design and camerawork, as opposed to “special” effects, as I recall.
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Another early compositing device for animation was the multiplane camera, created for Disney by his technical genius and friend, Ub Iwerks. Various elements of a animated image were stacked up vertically, like a sandwich on plates of glass. The camera was placed on top of this. That way if the characters moved, but the scenery and other elements were static, only the cels that animated the characters needed to be inked and painted, not the whole scene. Also the focal plane of the camera could be “pulled” through the composite image to create realistic depth-of-field effects. one of the best uses of the camera can be seen in “Dumbo” (1941).
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I use green screen when editing my own personal videos. You can easily find green screen images with a simple Google search and use them on the highest track in a video editor like Sony Vegas. You then convert the green to transparent which allows a lower video track to become visable in just the area that was originally green.
Sounds complicated but it is actually quite simple.
Bookmarked. Fascinating stuff...thanks for the post!
Great post . . . it proves that at one time Julie Andrews was a babe.
“There are cynics today that believe modern film is too reliant on CGI and that we should return to a simpler form of real filmmaking... The undeniable truth about filmmaking is the only thing that matters is what’s on that screen. “
Yeah and when they rely too heavily on CGI....oh never mind....