In this lecture, visual effects artist Matt Linder discusses the essential keying concepts in Shake. Matt explores each of Shake's keying nodes in great detail, and discusses how to apply them to production shots. Matt explains the concepts of hard mattes and soft mattes and how they are used to equalize the detail of your matte. He shares tricks for edge detail work such as hair, despilling green or blue spill on the foreground subject, maintaining or inserting reflections, and depth of field issues. Matt shows how to utilize multiple keyed mattes to obtain a seamless composite of foreground and background. Included in this DVD are many real-world production examples of blue screen, green screen, sky replacement and color replacement.

• Keying Nodes Details
  
• Primatte
  
• Keylight
  
• LumaKey
  
• Z-Key
  
• Multiple Key Mattes
  
• Hard Mattes & Soft Mattes
  
• Despill Techniques
  
• Edge Detail Techniques
  
• Keying for Color Changes

1. Introduction to Keying
2. Luma Keying
3. Chroma Keying
4. Keying with Keylight
5. Keying with Primatte
6. Removing Despill
7. Keying to Target Colors
8. Z Depth Keying
9. Car Interior Composite
10. Depth of Field Composite
11. More Keying Examples

• Product Code: MLI03
• ISBN: 1-59762-952-9
• UPC: 805366015138
• Duration: 240 minutes
• Formats: DVD-ROM

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Matt Linder

Lead Lighting Technical Director
Rhythm & Hues

Matt Linder has worked on over fifty feature films, including Elektra, Garfield, X-Men 2, Daredevil, Ghost Ship and Scooby Doo. Matt got his start at Kodak’s Motion Picture Film division in Hollywood, where he learned all aspects of motion picture film and cinematography. Later he joined Kodak’s Cineon team where he contributed to the birth of digital compositing. From there Matt went to Pacific Title and Art Studio as Lead Compositor and Effects Artist for four years. Currently Matt works as a Lead Lighting Technical Director at Rhythm & Hues, where he is sequence lighting the film The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. When Matt is not pushing pixels, he's pushing sound waves around LA with his music projects "The Mood of Space" and "Nerve Picnic".