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MillimeterComposing Videos with Compositing
Mar 25, 2002 12:00 PM
Compositing was the key to putting members of Aerosmith onto a futuristic planet oozing with computer-graphics effects for the band's music video, Fly Away from Here. Wayne Shepherd, lead compositor at effects boutique At The Post, based in Santa Monica, Calif., said artists completed more than 170 green-screen shots, as well as extensive rotoscoping and cleanup work, in three weeks.
“The quantity of green-screen shots, the time-frame, and the fact that the director [Joseph Kahn] kept tweaking the changing environments in the video made this extremely complex from a compositing standpoint,” says Shepherd.
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