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FrankBystrom
08-20-2007, 09:30 AM
Does anyone know how they do when they keep the lips red in a black and white movie?
beaker
08-20-2007, 10:12 AM
Either colorize it red if it starts out b&w. That or what they normally do is shoot it color and then remove the color on everything except the lips. Both can be done pretty simply with roto of the lips all in a Compositor.
FrankBystrom
08-20-2007, 03:40 PM
I've never worked with somthing like it before so if you can direct me to any site that explains it a bit further it would be great. Thanks
Mylenium
08-20-2007, 04:00 PM
I've never worked with somthing like it before so if you can direct me to any site that explains it a bit further it would be great. Thanks

You draw masks around the lips and animate them frame by frame. If you do so on an Adjustment layer, you can apply effects to the layer and the mask controls which parts of the layers underneath it affects. This is pretty straightforward, it's just a lot of manual work as is all kind of rotoscoping.

Mylenium
FrankBystrom
08-20-2007, 04:36 PM
ok, thanks for the help.
mackdadd
08-20-2007, 06:39 PM
you could also try pulling a key from the lips and inverting the matte, since usually lips are a different color than the surrounding skin. Or maybe a luma matte. Either would require a garbage roto.
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