Introduction to Digital Compositing in Post-production
Chroma and luminance cut (part 1)
A course by Juan Olivares , Digital VFX Composer
About the video: Chroma and luminance cut (part 1)
Overview
“In this lesson, I will teach you how to crop a character or object recorded on a green background, and how to crop using the plane's luminance, in case you do not have a color screen. I'll delve into the way to make a competent cut, and how to deal with the edges of color and Spill.”
In this video lesson Juan Olivares addresses the topic: Chroma and luminance cut (part 1), which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Digital Compositing in Post-production. Learn fundamentals and basic techniques to create a VFX shot with Nuke.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson I will show you how to trim a chroma using the "green screen" technique and I’m going to show you how to use luminance to complement this process. One of the great tasks we have always had in the composition it has been able to separate our character from our background. The good thing about using the single color background is that it gives us a fairly even contrast Between our character and the background. That will facilitate the process of extracting an image in black and white that we will use later To crop our image. In this lesson we will see how I do it in Nuke and th...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Digital Compositing in Post-production
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Category
3D & Animation -
Software
Adobe After Effects, Nuke -
Areas
3D, Audiovisual Post-production, Film, Video & TV, Photography Post-production, VFX
Juan Olivares
A course by Juan Olivares
Juan Olivares is a specialist in digital composition and visual effects. His beginnings in the audiovisual world were in Buenos Aires (Argentina) working for television commercials, where he later made his big leap into the world of visual effects with the Oscar-winning film The Secret in Their Eyes.
He worked on innumerable Argentine productions before moving to Vancouver, Canada, where he worked in houses specializing in visual effects such as The Embassy, Zoic, and Digital Domain, with which he was able to participate in Hollywood productions such as Deadpool, Arrow, and Furious 7. Then, he crossed the ocean, this time to London, United Kingdom, where he worked at the Framestore house for the film Guardians of the Galaxy.
He is currently in Chile, his native country, where he founded a visual-effects boutique specializing in characters and creatures, called Grumpy VFX, where he is a composer and visual-effects supervisor.
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