Keying

All of the shooting for the short is completed and turned out very well. We are now in the process of "keying" all of the footage and compositing it together. Keying is taking footage and removing a color, usually blue or green, so that you can change the background or what ever you are "keying" out. In this case it is the blue background that we want to remove and replace it with many different scenes of Kong in his natural surrounding. It is a very time consuming process to get a good key. The tricky part about keying a monkey is all of the hairs are mixed with blue on them and if you aren't careful, your monkey ends up with no hair. ... So we want to be careful.