Visual Effects & Digital Set Extension

An aspect of visual effects in films I've always found very interesting is incorporating computer generated elements with live action, especially when whole parts of a set are created digitally. A nice thing about Digital Set Extension is, that it involves various kinds of techniques such as motion control, matchmoving, compositing and color grading and lots of care has to be taken when shooting the scenes on stage. For the first part of my project "The Picture Show" an actor was filmed in a green-screen environment along with 3d tracking markers for camera motion recovery. After I had done matchmoving, I combined the CG set and objects with the live action footage using the compositing tool Shake. In Tamer Ruggli's "Flower of Carnage" a golden cage had to be digitally inserted into the scene.

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