Swimming in air ?!?

[beaker]

Person is on a rig in front of a bluescreen and they act like they are swimming in air. Then key out the person and composite them ontop of a filmed plate of the air. It can be done in any compositing software. It is compositing in it's most basic form.

[zappenduster]

Originally posted by beaker
Person is on a rig in front of a bluescreen and they act like they are swimming in air. Then key out the person and composite them ontop of a filmed plate of the air. It can be done in any compositing software. It is compositing in it's most basic form.

i think i remember to a bmw spot some years ago where they did make a girl swim arround one of their cars dont know if its the millspot could be from some one other

they did film it in a swimming pool and removed the water then later in post it was featured in the german magazine digital production but could be 2 years or longer ago

you cant really fake the hair and such things if it should look right maybe if you want just the fly look but for swimming with all extras like hair swinging and bouncing arround you have to go underwater

[SuperMax]

Ive always wondered how they did swimming in the air tyoe effects. Even when they talk "under water"

If i was every gonna do it, I would suspend the person up in the in and blow air towards then using fans, making their har and clothes fly everywhere.

Then in the compositing software slow down the video so u get a nice and slow and smooth action like what you get in the water :)

[Hugh]

When you've got someone on a rig, it's very hard to get the weight looking right, as they are often only suspended from a limited number of positions (so their knee is hanging lower than it should or they don't hold their arm up as high as they could.

I was reading the Cinefex article about Peter Pan - they shot the flying shots on rigs but then went back and digitally replaced a lot of legs and other parts of bodies because they just didn't look natural enough....

[theotheo]

I guess this is the same thing as in Chris Cunninghams video for Portishead Only you, what i'm really curious about is how they remove the bubbles. Plain rotoing? Or some other technique?

-theo

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