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 available in two standard sizes.
- 2 metres by 3.0 metres, hemmed on each side for convenient placement. Ideal for use with Weather Studio
- Animation screens. These are approxiamately 1m x 0.5m
Please contact us directly for Education prices on chroma key screens and for availability.
This highly saturated and accurately colour-balanced fabric is a great start in creating high quality chroma keyed video results.
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!