Bouton's stuff, Volume 2

[Gare]

Oh, I agree. It was my way of giving our the paint strokes, if truth be known. Someone didn't understand what an EPS file is, a long time ago, so what I did was use P'shop to write it out as a standard bitmap collection of strokes, auto-taced it and did some hand noodling.

As far as color palettes go, Barbara recently repainted my office a specific shade of green.






We got the color out of a Valspar (TM) paint catalogue, and I fell so in love with the samples I photographed the chips and am in the process of making a color palette for Xara out of them.





Not thinking about colors in a piece of art is like using Arial for al your text needs.


TEDIOUS!

-g

[Boy]

As far as color palettes go, Barbara recently repainted my office a specific shade of green.

You could almost use that green wall to chromakey videos.

[Gare]

You could almost use that green wall to chromakey videos.

I think the lighting, which is all LED, corrupted the true color of the green, Boy. It's more like billiard table felt green.

But I DID experiment several years ago with green screen material, and it's not as important what the RGB values are as it is that no other color in the scene has a similar shade. Barbara and I bought a small stage green screen years ago, and after ironing it and fussing with it, we went to stock green (acid green) fabric, worked out how to avoid spill, and we did some nice chromakey work.

I don't know how others do compositing work because in film I'm officially a Nobody, but I use Adobe After Effects and I can "tune" the key areas I want to drop out.

This is 11 years ago, so please look at the concept and not the quality!




-g

[Boy]

I knew that you also did some creative greenscreen video stuff! The fire of chi!

[Gare]

I knew that you also did some creative greenscreen video stuff! The fire of chi!

Awww, shucks, t'weren't nuthin' (scuffs sneakers together, hangs head and blushes).

Trivia about this short: the owner of the place actually had several franchises, lived in Florida (we shot here in Syracuse), but was persistently accused of improper fondling of employees. So he committed suicide.

I was thinking of changing the logo at the end.

Melissa, our volunteer from the place, is a black belt and took direction excellently. And we later found out that at the time we filmed she was three months pregnant.

Quite frequently, the backstory to something I create is a lot more interesting than the creation.

I'm not sure this is one of those moments or not.

P.S. The disco version of Bach's Toccata and Fugue was my arrangement and digital recording with the aid of synths and samplers.

ALSO a curious thing to do.

[Boy]

Quite frequently, the backstory to something I create is a lot more interesting than the creation.

Life outside the limelight is often more fascinating and telling than what people like to showcase.

[gray]

A very cool video, young man.