Charlotte's Web - Fall leaves color change

richard-courtney wrote on 12/18/2006, 7:16 PM

Did anyone notice the scene where the summer green leaves changed to fall colors
while the vehicle travelled down the road?

How would you do it?

(I am thinking they filmed fall colors and made them green)

Comments

GlennChan wrote on 12/18/2006, 9:43 PM

You can use the secondary color corrector?

TheHappyFriar wrote on 12/19/2006, 5:31 AM

could of been a CGI effect too.

Cheno wrote on 12/19/2006, 6:59 AM

Could have been either fall colors made green or summer colors made into autumn.

An absolutely beautiful shot and the transition couldn't have been done better.

Been trying to find behind the scenes answers on it but no luck so far. Sure a change from the old days even as early back as Dances with Wolves where they had to physically paint autumn into the battle at the beginning of the film.

cheno

baysidebas wrote on 12/19/2006, 8:44 AM

Now why can't Sony make a plug-in for Vegas to achieve this effect at the push of a single button? OOps, wrong thread.... Never mind....

DGates wrote on 12/19/2006, 11:27 AM

Dances With Wolves was 16 years ago. Not too recent.

I'm sure the Charlotte's Web DVD will have more info on the leaves.

GlennChan wrote on 12/19/2006, 11:40 AM

Well if you can't simply key/change the colors around, then another way of doing this is via a matte painting. This is easiest if the camera does not move (otherwise the trees need to be 3-D). Someone in Photoshop (or similar program) just creates/paints both versions of the trees.

If you want falling leaves, those elements might be 3-D leaves added in. On the leaves, you would change the texture colors around.