More Matrix questions
More Matrix questions- special effects and filmmaking
I know, I know, everyone's sick wiwth all of these questions about the Matrix. But hey, can you blame our inquisitive minds? In the Matrix there's the scene with the woman in the red dress. How did they get the crowd to stop moving and yet have Fishburn and Reeves still move? I thought about bluescreen but the crowd is all around them and bluescreen can only be in the background. I checked the archives and it's nowhere there.
uhm no...blue screen, done right, can have multiple layers, allowing characters to move behind objects as well. thats how they did that in the big M
How do you layer it?
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Layer 1: Crowd people in front of background at far distance from the camera.
Layer 2:Fishburne and Reeves at medium distance in front of chromascreen.
Layer 3: Crowd at closer distance in front of chromascreen.
If you want some one to walk "around" a frozen charachter make them a seperate layer. First make them backgroud them at frame X make them foreground.
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I still don't get it, are there three bluescreens?
I´m actually trying do do this this week, using not bluescreens, as they´re not a must-have.
*Film the sequence with people walking.
*Film the exact same sequence with only the show-stopper walking. (Don´t budge the camera.)
*Create a still where you want the crowd to stop and there make two separate masks in photoshop of that still.
1)Mask around the people for when your hero walks behind them and not on top of them.
2)Mask on top of the people for when your hero walks in front of them.
*Choose when the hero should walk behind/in front of the crowd and put the fitting mask over the still.
I´m not sure you get any of this, but it should work, even though I haven´t tried it out quite yet. One difficulty could actually be creating a good still of the crowd that doesn´t flicker a bit.
Uhhhh no
They got a bunch of actors, told them to walk, and told them to stop & freeze. Not that difficult. U can actually see a bit of movement if u look close.
Umm, I don't think the extras are standing still. If you watch the movie on DVD, you can see suggestions of matte lines.
I think buffy's idea is the way to go...
[This message has been edited by Mister Twisted (edited 02-06-2000).]
No Sam is right. The actors actually froze and they had animatronic pigeons tied to wires with tubes attached to them feeding the animals intraveniously with ether so that they would fall asleep, and glycerine to keep their wings folded out. Agent Smith is actually standing really still. They dressed him up in a push-up bra and a corset that kept him from budging and gave him the grin of his. (They actually used this clothings furthermore to keep him from talking rapidly and acting normally, giving him the inevitable agent-feeling.)
As a matter of fact, Keanu never showed up to the shooting of that day, as he was bassjamming, so they replaced him with a cg Keanu built from a box and a sphere, which explains his lack of movement and facial expressions. They found this new Keanu so cool they paid him to imitate that look. Oh my, I´m a funny dude. ;-)
Ha ha.
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