When George Lucas set out to make the Star Wars prequels in
1999, he used green screens to help bring his
vision to life. He simply put his actors in an entirely green environment and
had his VFX team create alien worlds such as Kamino and Mustafar.
We all know that green screens and chroma keying is a common
practice to for all sci-fi and fantasy films. How else could’ve Lucas created a
planet covered entirely in ocean, or make two Jedi go floating down a river of
lava? (Well, he could have done it
practically, but CGI makes sense here). But did you know that even the simplest
scenes, like two guys sitting on some steps of a building in NYC, are green
screened?
Check out the video below, it is fascinatingly eye-opening.
In class on Thursday we learned HOW to key things out, but I never knew the emphasis some productions put on keying. It's quite remarkable.
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