Beauty Techniques
by Randall League
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Mar 16, 2009 at 10:57:59 am
I've a job where I have to make a bunch of average girls look "prettier", its for a Japanese escort service (its legal here) that want to put it on there website. The girls will be in underwear with lots of skin being shown, intercut with closeups.
What I've done on my own is skin smoothing, I use Andrew Kramer's technique where you make a luma matte from the face and then apply adjustment layer to it, then add any effects (I use Boris's Skin Smoother), that way keeping the detail in the hair, eyes, teeth.
I've also been playing around with another plug in (I forget the name)Nude FX or something that stimulates a tan.
And last I've got a basic eye color replacement technique down but it involves lots of keying a mask about which is time consuming.
Are there any other techniques I'm missing? Maybe teeth whitening?Is there not a better way for the eye color replacement than motion track, adjustment layer, position key frame mask technique? Is there anything I can do at the shoot to make sure my post production is easier?
Oh, and believe it or not there are some men "escorts" as well, anything that I might do different with men?
Re: Beauty Techniques by Dave LaRonde on Mar 16, 2009 at 3:44:23 pm
[Randall League]"...Are there any other techniques I'm missing?..."
You certainly are.
Do it right the first time by HIRING A MAKEUP ARTIST, APPLYING MAKEUP, AND THEN SHOOTING!
It's pretty much a no-brainer. If you promised the client that you could fix up the existing footage, you were sadly mistaken. Unless you have the patience to techniques used in Photoshop to motion footage.
Dave's Stock Answer #2:
When you're out on a shoot, and you say, "we'll fix this in post" without knowing PRECISELY HOW you're going to fix it in post, don't shoot it! You'll only end up shooting it over again.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
Re: Beauty Techniques by Randall League on Mar 16, 2009 at 4:12:21 pm
I'm sorry , I thought make-up and soft lighting was a given. We do have a a make-up artist ,though this being Japan movie/tv make-up artists are not easy to come by, but we'll do the best we can.
