That was solidly worth waiting for
For anyone interested, the fake mud was made by stacking layers of glue, poly filler and paint.
The boots puzzled me for a bit. Sometimes they look grey, sometimes brown, sometimes green. To get a colour I was happy with, I picked out some khaki suede and then dyed it grey, sanding some areas more than others.
I have two replies here, one is a request.
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JohnSpaceUK RamonvanVeghel Color chasing, as we all know, is a little torture device created by fate to pick at your soul. Sunlight vs firelight vs lamplight vs flashbulb and then we run into where we saw it, monitor vs tv vs theater vs printed poster, however:
Peter Jackson has an entire video documentary about his initial introduction to digital color grading software being in this film. THIS FILM. He first got hold of his new favorite toys of digital cameras and digital editing/color grading in the first of LOTR. I watched his excitement as he talked about how they could change the color of a scene progressively. Think on that. Slowly changing the color of a scene to induce panic, hope, happiness, sadness and then transition back, all without the audience noticing
JUST LIKE THE SOUNDTRACK MUSIC.
This means that, without the scene lighting actually physically changing, the scene color WAS CHANGING FRAME BY FRAME, with no two frames having the same color on every prop, costume and makeup piece in the scene.
I sat there staring at this documentary (it's in the massively extended DVD version) knowing that he was giddy about what was going to be the bane of my existence on the rpf.
He was ecstatic about PINPOINT LIGHTING (area effect) that could follow a specific chosen item in the scene and change its lighting and color. Pick a face and permanently make it glow (think elves) without changing the physical makeup.
Pick a coat, a hat, a sword and make it go from blue to black (Boromir) for the entire scene or the whole movie, REGARDLESS OF LIGHTING. Make perfectly clean clothing look dirty or old, click click, done. But when the making of or behind the scenes pictures come out, interviews on set, posters, promo photos..... No attempt to match the color they were while shown in the theater and now your inspiration photo you used to chase colors........ fate hates you but it loves Peter Jackson for this nifty torture device.
2) boot gick: can you please please show your boot gick build up with supplies (bottles and bags) so I can follow for mine?
