Justin Johnson
Indy Mogul
From the Forums: Green Screen tips by WesScog
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Just a thought.
Anyway, we got this cool tutorial posted by user WesScog. Take is away, Wes!
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I wanted a nice Green panel that would be semi-portable and that I could take outside, or move it around my actor a little bit.
I started with a roll of Neon Green Fabric from Walmart, the green table clothes i've seen work MUCH BETTER, since they are solid plastic.
I started with a roll of Neon Green Fabric from Walmart, the green table clothes i've seen work MUCH BETTER, since they are solid plastic.
Once I had it stretched over the frame, it was just a matter of putting in the tacks along the edges.
It took me a few days, I taped up the edges, because the fabric didn't stretch perfectly, then I spray painted the whole thing with a can of bright green paint, then I went at it with rollers, of Key Green color.
I put on three layers, that I sanded in between, then I spray a Matte Finish on top of that.
Above was a few days before I finished it, after it totally finished drying, it was quite taut, it doesn't have those wrinkles you see in it here after it dried.
It was a lot of hard work, but it worked really well, like I said before, my route was really long, but it worked, and it would have been less expensive to just buy the table clothes and use them.
But this is ONE WAY to do it.
I put on three layers, that I sanded in between, then I spray a Matte Finish on top of that.
Above was a few days before I finished it, after it totally finished drying, it was quite taut, it doesn't have those wrinkles you see in it here after it dried.
It was a lot of hard work, but it worked really well, like I said before, my route was really long, but it worked, and it would have been less expensive to just buy the table clothes and use them.
But this is ONE WAY to do it.
By the way, if anyone wants to know what the frame was, it was just some scrap wood we found that we nailed together, we didn't cut it or angle it, it was just 4 thin wooden boards that we put nails in, nothing complicated.
Overall, the fabric was 4 dollars from WalMart, the paint was 10 dollars (tiny can, had to get it specially mixed from a sample we brought to the hardware store of the right shade of green, but Nickelodeon has a green that is almost perfect, that they carry at Lowes or Home Depot, it's to paint kids rooms and might be a bit cheaper since its pre-mixed) and the wood was free since we found it laying in a ditch, if you were going to buy it (since we're not all lucky enough to find free scrap wood laying around) it would cost you about 5-10 dollars, it's cheap thin wood, about 2x1 or so i'd guess, each one about 5 feet long.
Overall, the fabric was 4 dollars from WalMart, the paint was 10 dollars (tiny can, had to get it specially mixed from a sample we brought to the hardware store of the right shade of green, but Nickelodeon has a green that is almost perfect, that they carry at Lowes or Home Depot, it's to paint kids rooms and might be a bit cheaper since its pre-mixed) and the wood was free since we found it laying in a ditch, if you were going to buy it (since we're not all lucky enough to find free scrap wood laying around) it would cost you about 5-10 dollars, it's cheap thin wood, about 2x1 or so i'd guess, each one about 5 feet long.
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