How to Repurpose Your Models, or, Green Screen and Philodendrons in the Faery Wells
I know very little about the green screen process or doing animation from live capture. I DO know that I’ve been preparing food, balancing the checkbook and generally skirting around two models for the last three weeks. Yesterday, these babies were finally packed up and hauled out to where the green screen work was being done. Russell assures me that, even though the green screen filming took much longer than anticipated, he was very happy with the Saturday’s work.
"...when one side of the house was thatched, the horsemen would go and seek more feathers and, when they returned, not a feather was on the roof."
Russell created two models for Banshee, the house with the unthatched roof and the trio of faery wells, both from the Cormack MacArt tale. This entire sequence will eventually be animated and the models were created for reference. They’re quite detailed for something that won’t even appear in the final cut of the film but, then again, Mr. McGee doesn’t do things by halves. In fact, the faery wells really work. The three heads are hollow, the two above funnel water into the one located centrally below. He actually tested the water flow before firing it in the oven. The model could be placed in a base and rigged as a fountain.
Russell wondered aloud where the models would end up once filming was completed. I looked around our tiny apartment- already over-stuffed with props, costumes and hundreds of DVDs- and mused that my philodrendons had finally rooted and needed to be put in dirt soon. I turned to Russell.
“Wouldn’t the faery wells make awesome plant pots?”
Blink. Stare.
Clearly, he was not impressed.
I tweeted the picture of the faery wells @starrynightprod.
Tags: animation, green screen, models
Faerie Wells plant pots would rawk! They may also work well with hens and chicks plants.