Chroma key background

[Rocky Heights]

How do we render the background as one color besides black? We want to edit our cat into a film so it is dancing with a live person. Our teacher can't figure it out when he is supposed to help us!

[robcat2075]

How do we render the background as one color besides black? We want to edit our cat into a film so it is dancing with a live person. Our teacher can't figure it out when he is supposed to help us!

 

You can set the background color in the properties window for the camera. Make sure the "alpha buffer" is turned OFF in your render properties.

 

However, rendering a CG character on a colored background to Chroma key it later is a last choice.

 

Better to render your character with the alpha buffer ON and have your compositing software use the alpha channel.

 

There's a tut out ther with a character walking on a sidewlk that shows how to do it. Maybe someone can pop in witht the link.

[Ganthofer]

I think this is the tutorial Robcat2075 is thinking of.

 

http://www.hash.com/users/ed/tutorials/fpm/fpm.htm

 

It's by Mediaho (Ed Lynch) Blunt Force Trauma

[Rocky Heights]

Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOO much!!!!!!!