DIY green screen glove = pure animation goodness
Legos, stop animation and the funny...these are things my 10 year old son is so into right now it's sick. Oh how he loves him some YouTube Lego stop animation videos!
We got him this Lego stop animation video camera as a tool to encourage a creative outlet for his obsession...Which it has and which leads me to this awesome green screen glove project posted on Make. The site shares Miguel Valenzuela's genius idea for sewing up a special glove that could then be used to make some super-sweet animated videos.
I created a green screen glove out of some fabric and used it to animate a LEGO robot across a table. The green glove was made with green spandex and stitched together with only the thumb. It should really be called a 'green mitten' since it has no fingers.
I shot the video of the LEGO moving around and then moved it out of the frame. I then let the camera shoot about 20 seconds of background.
I imported the video into Adobe Premier and cut it into two segments: the glove shot and the background shot, and layered the glove shot over the background shot. I then keyed out the glove as much as possible and let in the background which matched seamlessly with the foreground.
On my second try I'd use a different material than spandex because it reflects a lot of light and creates hotspots which are hard to key out. I'd also crop out a significant portion of the hand and only key in the edges close to the LEGO.
Um...AWESOME!
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