For those of you who don't know, I'm an editor at red echo post, a video post production company in Cincinnati. Last week I worked on a spot for the Cincinnati Zoo to promote their new giraffes. It was a challenging but very interesting spot to work on.
The giraffe in the first and last shots was originally in front of a clear sky background. I keyed it out, applied an effect that creates the outlines, then composited all 3 back onto the new background.
The middle shot was composited from 2 different scenes in much the same way, except that the platform and the people had to be motion tracked to the background so that it looked like it was part of the scene. For that I had to enlist the help of Scott, our 3D animator - he has better tools and a better brain for tracking that sort of scene. He tracked the separate elements, then I composited them back together.
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Doogie, I'm thrilled your blogging even though you'll make all our blogs VERY boring to view! :-)
I loved that commercial when I saw it. More importantly, can you get us free tickets to see these giraffes? ;-)
Thanks Kris. I just happened to have something interesting as a first blog, but my future blogs will probably be an instructional video for changing the brakes on a car, or me ranting about deceiving re-financing offers I get in the mail. I doubt I'll be outshining anyone.
As far as the free tickets - I didn't even get any. But if you do go to see the giraffes you should go when it's cool, because the exhibit is in an unshaded area that gets very hot. Also, you can only feed them rye wafers that you have to buy for $1 each - and apparently the giraffe's don't really like them.
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