From: "Mr. Eric D. Kirk" Received: from mail-ig0-f178.google.com ([209.85.213.178] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 5540634 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Mon, 04 Aug 2014 02:19:03 +0200 Received: by mail-ig0-f178.google.com with SMTP id uq10so4404450igb.11 for ; Sun, 03 Aug 2014 17:19:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=+A+tpRsjaSuIIe8ASZpTreNdcjO8H/Kd6C59jHz5xfc=; b=K87dC+Rs3mNM50rKY7adrKv0OiC808j75+8XMhbdxrhJLqD9ICM/UmgTFOPQi7AsyI lJu2dFb9nCb9ozORn84F1Xa8DJjYy094DCeRhZ/CcwKt/uCnKLj0qp1moe44QTCHftFo qQjqXZsgXOntNP5cjmxXKX5Jcemcg37McCd2WC+m+d/k0uulDf4I0JuPTYYCYFWMOwii GQDwGooHppxuJZTXL/aDWXeU4URouFQBRINBOlD+BQaEs5aTs2vnmSeU9gHLvKIe+d3L GIeZcEMMku/VCoDCAUe5x9USlb5By9QV3iONJDTqJ8C4buBqxivzJdx3CBgLs+OA4iAZ kK4Q== X-Received: by 10.51.17.2 with SMTP id ga2mr31755260igd.2.1407111543098; Sun, 03 Aug 2014 17:19:03 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.56.50 with HTTP; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 17:18:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 20:18:43 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: VFX for Movie - Your Take on This To: After Effects Mail List Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a113491e4af968904ffc2af6f --001a113491e4af968904ffc2af6f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 All, A couple weeks ago, I posted a message about this ROTO effort that a producer wanted in which they hadn't had approval for a certain location and now wanted me to like change all of the background which was pretty much impossible. I was finally able to explain that it just could be done without being noticed and they wanted me to fake a depth of field thing, etc. Anyway, I'm off the hook on that. So, I'm on the same project and use that as a lead in to this. It's a time lapse thing where you see some young girls growing up, not sure, let's say 10 yrs maybe and so they want the guys beard to also change to more grays/whites in the latter half of the movie. I haven;t even begun to look yet but rest assured, you see the guy in probably 90% of the the remaining scenes. My initial response is, you have to be kidding me. Is this even a realistic objective to thing you can motion track and recolor a beard for half of a movie? It's a lot of action and movement, not like a paraplegic in a bed or something but before I jump on this as a pessimist, what is the take of the brains in this group? Thanks ahead. Eric -- *Eric D. Kirk | **Kirk Productions* *Hidden in the Woods | VFX* *The Night Visitor | VFX* *443.206.1347* *www.kirkproductions.com kirkproductions@gmail.com * *IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3351363/ * --001a113491e4af968904ffc2af6f Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
All,

A couple weeks ago, I posted a mes= sage about this ROTO effort that a producer wanted in which they hadn't= had approval for a certain location and now wanted me to like change all o= f the background which was pretty much impossible. =C2=A0I was finally able= to explain that it just could be done without being noticed and they wante= d me to fake a depth of field thing, etc. =C2=A0Anyway, I'm off the hoo= k on that. =C2=A0So, I'm on the same project and use that as a lead in = to this.

It's a time lapse thing where you see some young gi= rls growing up, not sure, let's say 10 yrs maybe and so they want the g= uys beard to also change to more grays/whites in the latter half of the mov= ie. =C2=A0I haven;t even begun to look yet but rest assured, you see the gu= y in probably 90% of the the remaining scenes.

My initial response is, you have to be kidding me. =C2= =A0Is this even a realistic objective to thing you can motion track and rec= olor a beard for half of a movie? =C2=A0It's a lot of action and moveme= nt, not like a paraplegic in a bed or something but before I jump on this a= s a pessimist, what is the take of the brains in this group?

Thanks ahead.

Eric
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443.206.1347
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