Creating Digital Armies

Greetings fellow Movie Makers! For a looooooong time I have wanted to make a fullscale army. Unfortunately, it is impossible for independent filmmakers to gather resources. Here I will show you how...

Step 1 Shoot Footage

First you need a Blue/Green Screen. There are many Instructables out there that can show you how to make one. First shoot footage of two people fighting. Make sure you get alot of different shots of different fighting. This ensures that the army do all fight like clones. Also shoot a couple of shots of those people as dead bodies (hah!).

Comments

[farabide]

A Splendid first instructable.
You got the point accross and it looks like fun to try.
Never thought of 'overdubbing' with video like that - despite the fact i've been doing it with audio for years!
The kids and i are gathering costumes and disguises to try out a crowd scene - (for some reason my two girls weren't keen on making a battle scene! Go figure!)

Thanks again.

[Laperax]

I made a green screen that had the same problem as this, which results from wrinkles I'm guessing.

If you're using Sony Vegas Movie Studio, there's a couple things you can do to fix it.  First try increasing the contrast a little bit, so that the objects in front of the screen don't blend in.  After you apply the Chroma Key, mess with the low and high thresholds until you have removed as much of the blue/green screen as possible.  If not all of it is gone, just keep layering Chroma Keys of different colors.  Use the color picker to choose the colors that haven't been removed yet, like the shadows created by wrinkles.  It's time consuming, but it worked for me.  Also, a well lit room for your screen helps a lot :)

[insomniaSAH]

For the purpose of seeing the actual results of this 'ible, you might want to post a vid clip :p

[Tharl]

Alright when I have time..