Costuming and Art Design for Color-Based Compositing

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Professional compositors who spend their days in dark rooms trying to create new realities out of unrelated background plates and color screen shots have many horror stories. No matter how clear they have been with the other people involved in the production, it is almost always the case that one or more shots has violated a basic rule of production for color keying, either in lighting or design, in costuming, or simply in poor execution. The director, producer, and director of photography (DP)—indeed all the production staff—must understand that color-based compositing is a nasty tightrope of compromises that must be respected in every shot. Breaking the rules costs money and time and may ...

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