Compositing Quotes

Working with green screen, you really rely on the director in a way that you don't on different types of films.

Visual-effects shots should flow into the rest of the live action, and you shouldn't be able to see a difference.

Green screen's not my favourite thing to do.

If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shards of glass. You're doing a lot of visual effects work.

When you're doing a film that has so many effects, you do a lot of it on green screen, and you can't see what that world is.

It doesn't bother me to work with so much green screen. I prefer real settings obviously.

I am trying my best to stay above the water. Right now ACID does not only offer animation. I offer real life productions as well and also compositing (animation composited into real life video)

I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and cameramen.

I love CG - it's a great tool. I just don't think you should use it to replace reality; you should use it to augment and enhance. Do matte paintings, do composites, do replications, stuff like that, but you're taking something real and working with that as opposed to trying to fake it from scratch. The human brain can tell the difference.

I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

I work a lot with a green screen, which is really time consuming. All the special effects are.

Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after.

I like pre-production and post the best. I don't like shooting at all. I find it grueling and tough, but I love post and the whole process of seeing the film finally come together. You start ironing out all the rough spots, and the really bad bits you just throw away. So from day one of post to the last day, you see nothing but improvements.

We have an amazing team at ILM who can create fantastic effects.

The daily work on special effects is fairly mundane.

My background is in VFX, and I know from experience that the best VFX are when you have something real in the frame that you can either extend or work off of. It was really important to get as much as possible in camera, for real.

I've done some effects shots. I've done some compositing. And in 'Just Like Heaven' did a lot of, like, motion control and things like that. But never done, like, computer-generated imagery in action.

I learned a lot about 3D animation from and with my dear friend Michael Hemschoot of Workerstudio. Taught me that I want to play more with animation and image manipulation. Fun stuff!

I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.