I had a whole ton of fun today. Today was the DSG's photo-shoot to complete the website. One of our members was able to secure lighting, green screens, a camera and a warehouse for some imperial glamor shots today. I'll be posting the pics later but it was a blast. We had several troopers, a couple of Vaders, a couple of Fetts, a Snow Trooper, an Imperial Officer and a killer Darth Maul. Tonight when I got home I decided to play around with some pics of Steve (Maul). Here they are:
This is the original. You can see the green screen in the back. Unfortunately only half helped me.
This was the quick and dirty composite. I absolutely HATE that background but its all that I could find on line that looked vaguely 'Imperial'.
Hologram Maul. This one took the longest but I think the color one looks better. He pops off the background more in the color version. This was was really, really difficult. I even ran a C++ program to get the right color conversion for the holo effect but in the end I think the background as well as the lack of color does it in. There are so many things going on in this pic that I might post a step by step later but for now this will do.
TK-5911
posted on Sunday, December 19, 2004 12:40 AM