Re: MATRIX COW

A thought for your predicament popped into my mind this afternoon so I thought I'd share it. When I logged on I noticed that somebody must have peed in skubeedoo's corn flakes this morning.

Sorry if I offended you by my "humorous" poke at WOWfactorX. I worked to many years on a farm to pass on the comment.

Here's a thought for your cow crisis. You say you can't film in front of a green screen, is it possible to use a green field/hilly background as a green screen. You could slap up a junk matte, pull a key and then remove quite a bit. You could even put a rope on a cow and walk it back and forth in front of a green hill background. You'd have to rotoscope out the rope but it's way better then the whole cow.

I think you'd be surprised how quickly you could get a walking cow shape with not a bunch of junk. I would try auto-tracing the keyed out cow shape, expand it a bit and clean up any real rough spots... then use that as your Matrix shape/matte. Like I say... much better then 100% rotoscoping.

If you aren't able to use a green field as your GS, a black and white cow in front of a just about anything other than black and white will allow you to get a quick and dirty key that can be auto-traced and cleaned up.

I don't know your plans but you could film a cow anywhere and slap the image into your field footage. People are most likely gonna know there was some post-production involved because of the Matrix rain effect.

Once again, sorry if I offended with a bit of "humour". Skubeedoo is correct in one regard... the Cow is a GREAT site.