Essential for creating special effects in animations and movies
Chroma Key Screens
Introduction
For animation and digital video, the use of a chroma key screen is essential to produce the highly popular "green or blue screen" effect.
Our chroma key screens are approximately 2 metres by 3.0 metres, hemmed on each side for convenient placement.
We also supply screens especially made up for use with animation. These are approxiamately 1m x 0.5m
This highly saturated and accurately colour-balanced fabric is a great start in creating high quality chroma keyed video results.
Now available in both green and blue fabric, please state colour when ordering. If no colour stated, then green will be supplied.
View an example of the chroma key technique used with stop-frame animation
Enlarge: Our Chroma Key with Digital Video
Features
- Studio quality:
Optimal for electronic compositing
- An excellent choice in the filming of stop-frame animation, using a tool that supports this feature:
(e.g. Stop Motion Pro or I Can Animate)
- Ideally suited for digital video with the popular Macintosh iLife Expansion series
Enlarge: Animation with Chroma Key
Chroma Key - Getting the best from your screen
View this document as a convenient Adobe Acrobat document:
- Chroma Key Guide
- Download the free Adobe Acrobat Viewer
The right lighting is essential. ChromaKey backdrops should ideally be evenly lit (i.e. with a light at a 45 degree angle at each side) and two stops brighter than the subject. This means that the backdrop is effectively over-exposed and very little detail is apparent. Yes, that really means that you should have three or more lights!