ChainsawAsh said:

Octorox said:

Ripplin said:

Bewy said:

Ripplin said:

Do the green screens need to be real studio green screens? Wouldn't painted cardboard work? :p

It's gotta be a special paint to make a real greenscreen, and it's not cheap...

Actually, I do remember hearing that somewhere before, now that I think of it. Thanks.

I know that borrowing things can be a sticky wicket (yub nub!), so it gets more understandable the more you think about it.

Not true. Paint a wall a good lime green and you're good to go. it just has to be well lit.

Color doesn't matter, as long as the subject in front of the green/blue/orange/whatever screen has very little of that color in it. Keying software can key out any color you want.

And Octorox is right, the background you're keying out needs to be lit as uniformly as possible. Ideally it'd be exactly one color with no variations, but this probably isn't possible, so you'll just have to get as close to that as you can.

(We've been doing a lot of work with keying in my Motion Graphics II class, in case you were wondering where I'm getting my information.)

Oh yeah, I know, lime green generally works better though because it's an uncommon color. unless your keying a lime that is, then I would recommend orange ;)