Re: Skin Tone Change

[Tony Quinsee-Jover <tony(at)hdheaven.co.uk>]

Hi Takis,

It'll be well-nigh impossible to achieve realistically.  The closest 
to this that I ever had to do was to change an ordinary Tiger (you 
know, the orange stripey things) into a Siberian Tiger (a white-ish 
stripey thing). Whilst the main changes can be achieved with a Color 
Corrector that still leaves MUCH detail to be addressed.

Here's an example:

1. You'll need to key the skin tones of your black talent.  This will 
almost certainly require much garbage matting and rotoscoping.

2. You'll need to CC that keyed footage to get the look you want (try 
gamma changes, plus pushing the chroma slightly more towards blue)

3. You'll need to protect areas such as eyes, teeth, palms of hands...

4. You'll need to charge your client a LOT of money ;-)

Good luck,
Tone :)


At 10:00 05/09/2005, you wrote:
> I don't now if someone has face that problem before but I'll ask anyway !
> I have a client who wants to chance the skin color of a black football
> player to a white football player !!!!!!
> Has anyone tried that before and if yes what is the best way to do it ???
> I have already tried to matte the legs, arms and head and color correct
> them but I am not very happy with the result.
> Thanks in advance for any kind of help.
>
>
>
>
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