United Rugby Championship always delight me with their briefs and this one's no different. They see the value of stepping up their marketing game ahead of big matches. This project was edited by their in-house team, before being handed over to me for GFX treatment. The process invovled regular use of Rotobrush and Keylight, as well as MochaAE to track camera movements. I exaggerated some camera tracked movements to accentuate player expressions. Optics Compensation came in clutch to bring the background to life with much more parallax shift and spherical distortion, as well as big impact moments throughout match footage sections.
The trophy shot needed an almost frame by frame mask as it was so reflective and had left the greenscreen bounds. Plus the greenscreen was clearly visible in those reflections, so I shifted those green hues to a blue, matching the background. Speaking of the background, it was simply a mix of different treatments of the team patterns, a dirty glass texture and the effects Find Edges and Deep Glow. So with a mixture of tracking, roto, grit and glows, we arrive at this result. Projects like these sharpen my old skills, such as chroma keying, making them relevant again - and for that I am grateful.
