From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments

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Art directing footage of clouds

Art directing footage of clouds

From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments

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Art directing footage of clouds

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- [Narrator] Clouds are really important to me I am originally from Southern California and when I was about thirty years old I had the opportunity to teach a class in Seattle and I saw these clouds and I just fell in love even though I didn't know anyone in Washington State and all of my family and friends were in California I came up to Seattle essentially for the terrible weather and the clouds. And so when I was putting this sequence together you know I really liked the pretty clouds that I could make in view, but I knew that I had to kind of put a tribute to Seattle in there by putting like real, genuine Pacific Northwest clouds as the background for the Galhoten scene there. And so I went out on a few different days and I got some really cool footage, pointed my camera right in the sky, lowered my exposure and got some really amazing textures and patterns as you can see here. And having this wide variety of options, I mean it was kind of hard because all these were just gorgeous…

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