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- From: aa664@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Alan Scott Tuskes)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
- Subject: Re: ANIMATION: anybody here actually animate?
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 05:50:41 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- >
- >Using filters isn't a good idea for solving the problem you describe.
- >If you look at Disney's movies, you'll see great care exercised in the
- >choice of colors for the characters and the backgrounds. The two are
- >considered together. As a rule of thumb (for Disney) bright, primary
- >colors for the characters, pastels for the background. It sounds as if
- >it's not only a problem of color choices, but also maybe a problem
- >of lighting. Try this: okay, imagine a clock face where your
- >characters are in the center and you are at 6 o'clock. Put your
- >two brightest lights at 10 and at 2, shining on your characters.,
- >now put a dimmer light at the camera, 6 o'clock. This should give
- >you a nice, bright halo of light around your characters and pull
- >them out of the background, while allowing you to see detail in the
- >their faces as well. Expose for the dimmer light and light the
- >2 backlights go hot. You'll probably have to pay your little
- >brother a buck to hold up a black card shielding the lens from
- >flare from the 10 and 2 lights. If he gives you any crap, kick his butt
- >like you've been doing all his life.
- >>
- I think this may also be a problem with his color temperature and film
- stock... if he is trying to light his stuff with standard incandescent
- lights, the film will register the colors wayyyy off. If I recall correctly
- Kodachrome will be registering everything in a nice orange-amber haze.
- At the very least, get some photo-floods in your reflectors to get the
- color temperature up. Negative part, photo floods have a short life,
- and slowly change color temp as they die. If you feel flush, get some
- quartz instruments, the bulbs last longer and maintain color temp
- throughout their life.
- >>Also, if anybody else is using a Bolex or similar 16mm camera... what
- >>size of lense are you using?
- >
- >26mm Macro Switar. Lets you get a shot of your little fingernail
- >that fills the screen, but also does all the work of a normal lens.
- >Occasionally a 50mm.
- >
- I agree
-
- Alan Tuskes
- Alternative Realities Ltd
-
- p.s. - While we are at it, what film stock and lights are you
- using. Might as well find out if that IS the problem.
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