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

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Creating a strategy

Creating a strategy

- [Instructor] In this chapter we're going to look at how to remove these characters in the background from this shot this seems like a tough thing but it's actually not too tough, it's pretty simple as we'll see as we've been looking at throughout these training courses. We had this shot and when we were filming on set people were like oh these guys were in the background too much and they're too visible and all this kind of stuff so in post-production we kind of changed the story a little bit and didn't fit any more to have these guys back here so they needed to be removed. Now the way that this works is we're going to go in to this footage and we're going to create some masks and mask out all the places where those guys are. And then we're also going to create something called a clean plate which is a background that just has nothing there. And then what we're going to do is we're going to put those two things together. So as I move through this here you can see that we're going to…

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