Global

Instructor:
Matt LINDER
Formats: (Mac or PC only)
DVD-ROM
System Requirements


In this lecture, visual effects artist Matt Linder discusses the essential keying concepts in Shake. Matt explores each of Shake's keying nodes in great detail, and discusses how to apply them to production shots. Matt explains the concepts of hard mattes and soft mattes and how they are used to equalize the detail of your matte. He shares tricks for edge detail work such as hair, despilling green or blue spill on the foreground subject, maintaining or inserting reflections, and depth of field issues. Matt shows how to utilize multiple keyed mattes to obtain a seamless composite of foreground and background. Included in this DVD are many real-world production examples of blue screen, green screen, sky replacement and color replacement.

Over 3 hours of lecture.

Topics Covered:

Keying Nodes Details
Primatte
Keylight
LumaKey
Z-Key
Multiple Key Mattes
Hard Mattes & Soft Mattes
Despill Techniques
Edge Detail Techniques
Keying for Color Changes



Chapters:

01: Introduction to Keying
02: Luma Keying
03: Chroma Keying
04: Keying with Keylight
05: Keying with Primatte
06: Removing Despill
07: Keying to Target Colors
08: Z Depth Keying
09: Car Interior Composite
10: Depth of Field Composite
11: More Keying Examples

Instructor Bio:

Matt Linder has worked on over fifty feature films, including Elektra, Garfield, X-Men 2, Daredevil, Ghost Ship and Scooby Doo. Matt got his start at Kodak’s Motion Picture Film division in Hollywood, where he learned all aspects of motion picture film and cinematography. Later he joined Kodak’s Cineon team where he contributed to the birth of digital compositing. From there Matt went to Pacific Title and Art Studio as Lead Compositor and Effects Artist for four years. Currently Matt works as a Lead Lighting Technical Director at Rhythm & Hues, where he is sequence lighting the film The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. When Matt is not pushing pixels, he's pushing sound waves around LA with his music projects "The Mood of Space" and "Nerve Picnic".