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>Alan Lloyd writes:
>>Jeric@cup.portal.com wrote:
>>
>>> ...dark blue to black gradients. I live in fear that
>>> some client will insist on such a background...
>>
>>Easy to deal with. Render your animation on a matte black BG,
>>set up a blue-to-black gradient on your switcher, and key the
>>animation over it. It works best if you can do the key in
>>component of course, and if you have a chroma-key capability, do
>>that, using a color _not_ found in your animation. It works
>>quite well.
>
>
> No doubt, but I prefer to give my clients the total completed
>animation without any compositing if at all possible.
>
> If not, of course, your method is the way to go.
Additionally, this only works if the background is static. If
the entire animation is supposed to happen within a sphere ( an old
Todd Rundgren trick) and the camera is moving, you're hosed.