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Tuesday

March

15

2005

Over with Union Jack


After 3 months of work, the branding job for a certain British Broadcast cable TV (North American division) is finally over. BTW I won't mention its name in case it showed up on search engine. We designed and produced every station graphics there is, which were all based on union jack and black squares. It is a rewarding project since it involved heavily with live action footages...something I've never done before. I learned quite a bit on compositing and keying. Cleaning up poor quality green screen is a majorly bitching work. For weeks I've gone almost insane with keying green screen that whenever I saw the color green I got a 'need to key that out' chill. I also visit a Telecine place (they have mega walls of computer that do precise color correction/special color special effects) but they didn't do that great a job as they should have, and these professionals supposedly get paid $1000 an hour. =_= After much struggles we had to hand over some of the challenging ones to real compositing professionals. Many things have happen during the project: a baby is born, I got hired (Stan got hired too!)~ :D

Caps of some of the 10 seconds shorts:
job_opera.jpgjob_superhero.jpgjob_xray.jpg
I did these three (there're more). The x-ray actor's acting was quite bad...but still nothing beats the botox girl (not in picture). We cast this actress and she had botox done few days before so her face has no expression whatsoever. She's supposed to act surprise, amuse and smile, but her face is just frozen. She can't even wink. Adam threw an orange at her in hope of getting some kind of reaction out of her...useless. We end up using only distance shot of her.

job_twins.jpgjob_splash.jpgjob_punk.jpg
These are the most difficult ones. Preston's friend, Zach, the compositing master did these. The 'twins' one was difficult because of poor quality green screen. The punk hair was a nightmare because the green background see through from the fine strands of hair. The actor of the punk hair is Kevin, the punk rocker/illustrator who freelances at IF.

job_fish.jpgjob_tongue.jpg
Preston did these. The length of the girl's tongue is real. o_O

Freda | March 15, 2005 05:21 PM | Career


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