If you work in video, you may be familiar with Red Giant Primatte Keyer. Red Giant’s Primatte and Digital Anarchy Primatte Chromakey both use Primatte chromakey technology, developed by Imagica Corporation in 1982. [Wikipedia] The last update for Primatte Chromakey for Photoshop was January 2012, but it does work in current versions of Photoshop.
If you’re working with still photography, it’s often necessary to cut someone out of the background to place them into a new scene or to add special effects. While there is no specific “Chroma Key Tool” that is built into Photoshop, it still has great tools for removing the background and other elements from an image, non-destructively.
Picking up on the latest trend, the Vancouver Fashion Week event organizers had seen the success of the New York Fashion Week 360 video stream and hired Canada-based virtual reality (VR) experts Time Technologies to develop a 360 video plan for their upcoming 2017 Spring/Summer event.
The New York graffiti scene is a space that is dominated by men. Filmmaker, Carly Starr Brullo Niles, got unprecedented access into this world to create an intimate portrait of one of the world’s most renowned and influential graffiti artist, Julius Cavero, aka Terrible T-Kid 170. The documentary The Nasty Terrible T-Kid 170: Julius Cavero directed by Brullo Niles tells Cavero’s story through over 30 years of archival footage, interviews with some rarely seen figures in the graffiti world and through nighttime footage of Cavero and his crew putting up new are in public spaces.
The official lineup for the inaugural Sherman Oaks Film Festival has been announced. The Sherman Oaks Film Festival was founded by longtime residents and movie veterans alike; the festival looks to showcase the best undiscovered movies in the heart of Los Angeles. The neighborhood that was home the mall in Fast Times At Ridgemont High deserves a world class film festival! The one-week long film festival opens on Sunday, November 13th and closes on Sunday, November 20th.
A big production topic of the past few years has been drones, drones and more drones. And when it comes to hyper realistic aerial chases, no one does it better than Corridor Digital. Known for their insane VFX tricks and professional quality fan films on YouTube, creators and filmmakers Niko Pueringer and Sam Gorski will do just about anything to get that perfect shot, even 3D printing and hand painting racing drones to replicate Star Wars ships and racing them in the air above a national forest. It is quite the joyride.