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Here’s a cool Steampunk music video shot on a RED One with some awesome pyro effects. The amazing thing is they never light any actual fires. According to Deadworkers.com Director, J.D.

We discovered a fun trick to make something look like it was on fire. We cranked up the exposure and the red channel until the smoke started looking likes licks of flame. The smoke helps it be a little more convincing because she can interact with it. The downfall of the footage is when she moves out of the path of the light. Our next test will include someone tracking her with a Fresnel to illuminate the smoke as she moves around. We are also planning on hitting the environment with a bright light so everything isn’t super dark.

We discovered this effect completely by accident. I have to attribute part of the discovery to the fact that the red gives me so much control over the footage due to the raw format. We took some shots of a rusty boiler and i wanted to make it look more rusty so i was cranking up the red channel. The I started showing off the cool stuff you could do with redcine and cranked up the exposure, suddenly the smoke started looking like fire.

There’s a motion clip here:

http://www.deadworkers.com/jenny/ReadMe.html

Before and after the effect:

and more stills here:

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=23188

even more stills here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8780798@N03/

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