Re: Gatorade Commercials?? by Malcolm Man on May 29, 2007 at 7:41:37 pm
Well, the older ones had the colore3d liquid with everything else black and white. I don't know if they're like that anymore. I just figured it was some special color correction with mattes and such.
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Re: Gatorade Commercials?? by Empathetic1636 on May 29, 2007 at 7:48:45 pm
It just seems like a hell of a lot of work to matte out the droplets of sweat and then tweak their color...i understand that this type of tedious work happens.....just thought their has to be a better way of doing this considering they use the technique so much ...you know?
Re: Gatorade Commercials?? by The Venninator on May 29, 2007 at 8:22:29 pm
newbie here...
but is it possible that the images were shot in color? perhaps they used an odd colored spray to mimic the sweat...a 'blue spray' or 'green spray'?
maybe spray the desired color and matte the image with itself and somehow drop the color from the subjects and layer the color sweat while adding hue intensity?
I helped one of my colleagues achieve an effect very similar to this for a DVD menu he was working on.
As long as the liquid stands out from the background in one color channel it shouldn't be too tough to matte it.
In our case we were working with blood on a face, so we ended up pulling a matte from the green color channel by shifting the channels, applying levels to darken the blood and lighten the face (there was more green in the face than in the blood) and inverting the result. When the footage isn't shot with this technique in mind it requires some garbage matting in order to get rid of some of the noise in the background. The result was quite stunning.
I'm guessing that they did something similar for the Gatorade commercials, only since they knew that this was how they would accomplish it they could've used a liquid that was intense in a particular color channel (maybe green or blue) while shooting.
Darby Edelen DVD Menu Artist Left Coast Digital Aptos, CA
Re: Gatorade Commercials?? by adam ryan on May 14, 2008 at 6:14:07 am
they actually used a half million dolar program by autodesk to create this effect im working on the comercial for a school project and have been doing alot of research but still not really getting the effect i want easiest but most tedious seems to be photoshoping the frames its the only thing ive seen where it gets it looking GREAT but its alot of work
