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The special case of keying blond hair - Nuke Tutorial
From the course: VFX Keying: Master Course
The special case of keying blond hair
- [Instructor] Blond hair on a green-screen is an especially difficult keying problem because the blond hair has a lot of green in it which can fool the keyer. Blond hair is also very fine, and to make things even worse, it's also translucent, conducting light. Here we'll look at how to use a three channel luma key to isolate even the finest blond hairs. I wanna start by showing you an interesting feature of Keylight. Now Keylight's reputation is based on the fact that they can do the best possible job at fine detail like hair. So we'll start with this green-screen. We'll do our noise suppression, of course. Down here and comping the key inside Keylight, I'm just bringing in my background, right here, and I'm letting Keylight do the comp, and I got a very good level of detail for the hair. Now this is the interesting thing I wanted to show you. If we take Keylight's key and copy it over here to our own spill suppressed image there. So now this is my spill suppressed with Keylight's…
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How to add more hair detail11m 15s
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The special case of keying blond hair7m 14s
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Keying for more semitransparency5m 30s
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Techniques for better motion blur7m 23s
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How to retain all of the depth of field7m 2s
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Special keying techniques for smoke11m 3s
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Extra special keying techniques for fire8m 41s
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How to key a cloud out of the sky14m 53s
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Keying reflections off of glass techniques7m 10s
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How to cope with bad video12m 3s
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