Color Correcting individual person
by William Aughtry
on
Jun 12, 2009 at 5:45:11 am
So I'm making a short film that involves a flashback that will have different coloring than the modern day material, pretty standard stuff. There is however one effect I would like to achieve and that is a shot where the character from the flashback appears in modern day scene but maintains the coloring from the flashback scene. Basically like Babe Ruth in this scene from "The Sandlot"
(I know this is someone's crappy reproduction but it has the Babe parts from the original film)
Anybody know to do this effect or have any clue where I should start looking?
Re: Color Correcting individual person by Alan Okey on Jun 15, 2009 at 7:41:38 pm
[walter biscardi]"You rotoscope out that person and then color grade them separately from the rest of the scene.
Or you apply a Custom Shape mask and keyframe the heck out of it to follow that person's movements. "
Unless you're a complete masochist, choose option 1 and do it in AE, Combustion, Shake or another true compositing app, or with a roto-specific app or plugin like Motor, Mocha or Silhouette. Rotoscoping is always a painful process - try to make it as painless as possible by using the proper tools.
