Paint Stripper

October 23, 2015 1:11 PM

Chroma key liquid stripping. (Vimeo, NSFW)

Music: HNNY - Most Really Pretty Girls Have Pretty Ugly Feet

posted by numaner (38 comments total)

That was interesting. And makes me terrified to walk near paint shops.
posted by Samizdata at 1:33 PM on October 23, 2015

So long as everyone takes a shower, I don't see what the problem is.
posted by a lungful of dragon at 1:36 PM on October 23, 2015

I was not primed for that.
posted by davebush at 1:36 PM on October 23, 2015 [53 favorites]

I--

what is happen
posted by Kitteh at 1:45 PM on October 23, 2015 [3 favorites]

Loved thinking of the amount of work that went into this to make it just right, lining up the models in the exact same places both clothed and nude to reveal them. The final effect was pretty cool. I'd be curious how it would look if they reversed it too - painting on clothes?
posted by msbutah at 1:50 PM on October 23, 2015 [3 favorites]

Like most paints, this was a solid film.
posted by maxsparber at 1:54 PM on October 23, 2015 [29 favorites]

I was reading the comments on the Vimeo page trying to figure out how it was done, kitteh, wherein someone managed to work in a transphobic comment. SMDH. WTF. Sighs.

Anyway, I think it has to do with filming them twice maybe? Once naked, once clothed, then using chroma key channels to "bleed" the image through?
posted by Annika Cicada at 1:55 PM on October 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

yea, annika, that's it exactly. part of my job is greenscreen compositing and this it hilarious!!!!

in a compositing program you are able to sample a colour, and then get it to replace everything that shade with a different image. it's very simple to move the second image so that the two filmed plates line up perfectly, and it looks like the liquid is removing the clothing.
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 2:03 PM on October 23, 2015 [2 favorites]

also this is awesome thanks for posting! I have just sent it to all my VFX buddies!
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 2:05 PM on October 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

I'll be honest, this would have been much better if they had gone with underwear instead of nudity for the chroma footage. It would be easier to share, not to mention easier to focus on the effect rather than wondering about the weird accidental metaphor that is somebody spitting another person's genitals into the open.
posted by truex at 2:48 PM on October 23, 2015 [5 favorites]

That's not even coming from a place of prudeness; I think baps and wangs are a cost-effective way to add zest to almost any occasion. You've got to be smart in the deployment, though.
posted by truex at 2:50 PM on October 23, 2015 [4 favorites]

MetaFilter: baps and wangs are a cost-effective way to add zest.
posted by RakDaddy at 3:08 PM on October 23, 2015 [23 favorites]

I think baps and wangs are a cost-effective way to add zest

That won't work for vegetarians, though; they'll need to stick with the usual spices and pepper.
posted by Greg_Ace at 3:13 PM on October 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

I like how the guy in the hat wants to see how bad he got hit every time...
posted by bird internet at 3:15 PM on October 23, 2015

joke about the one guy looking like Will Forte in LMOE

MetaFilter: baps and wangs are a cost-effective way to add zest.

joke about get that lemon zester away from me

sorry folks, it's been a long week
posted by prize bull octorok at 3:21 PM on October 23, 2015 [2 favorites]

My facebook finger is twitching.
posted by bird internet at 3:23 PM on October 23, 2015

hooray for male nudity!
posted by griphus at 3:36 PM on October 23, 2015 [7 favorites]

I'm ok with the idea that the subject matter will keep viewership low.

fuck'em
posted by bird internet at 3:40 PM on October 23, 2015 [5 favorites]

Seriously though the normalization of male nudity is a bit of a hobbyhorse of mine and I love to see it in a non-sexual, non-creepy context.
posted by griphus at 3:46 PM on October 23, 2015 [20 favorites]

Yes, not at all menacing..
posted by bird internet at 3:47 PM on October 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

Ooh, I want to do this with flayed subjects and go from clothing to skin to musculature.

What? Why is everyone looking at me like that?
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 4:13 PM on October 23, 2015 [8 favorites]

> It would be easier to share, not to mention easier to focus on the effect rather than wondering about the weird accidental metaphor that is somebody spitting another person's genitals into the open.

The video for "Toe Jam," a song from Brighton Port Authority (aka Norman Cook, best known as Fat Boy Slim), sung by David Byrne, with a breakdown by Dizzee Rascal, features a load of nude people whose genitalia and women's breasts, as well as a few raised middle fingers, are being censored by the traditional black bars/dots. The actions in the video, though, are made to create effects from the bars/dots. The video would be a series of attractive naked (and, given the general 1970s look of the people and clothes, probably very hairy) people doing truly inexplicable party games if the black cutouts weren't there. Enjoyable, sure, but nothing special.

That's naked Norman Cook at about 2:30, doing a helicopter with a very big black bar indeed.
posted by Sunburnt at 4:25 PM on October 23, 2015 [11 favorites]

truex: "I'll be honest, this would have been much better if they had gone with underwear instead of nudity for the chroma footage."

It would have really pulled me out of the effect. How the heck would the liquid wet the outerclothes without wetting the underwear?
posted by Mitheral at 4:30 PM on October 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

i seen a peenus
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 4:43 PM on October 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

Well, who hasn't been to that party am I right?
posted by The Whelk at 6:06 PM on October 23, 2015 [3 favorites]

I wish there was a way to like the title of a post specifically.
posted by lore at 7:14 PM on October 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

I, too, would like to throw my support behind more normalization of male nudity, especially when intact penises are involved.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 7:23 PM on October 23, 2015 [8 favorites]

It would have really pulled me out of the effect. How the heck would the liquid wet the outerclothes without wetting the underwear?

They managed it partway through the video, in the lineup with the three dudes, so it is possible at least.
posted by Dip Flash at 12:43 AM on October 24, 2015

Cool effect, but I ended up kind of hung up on the lack of lady pubes.

Did the lady pubes do something wrong? Did they somehow upset the director? Maybe they showed up to set late or refused to leave their trailers?
posted by evidenceofabsence at 7:17 AM on October 24, 2015 [2 favorites]

But what happens if one's tackle is normally that shade of green anyway?

Asking for a friend.
posted by Devonian at 9:54 AM on October 24, 2015 [3 favorites]

> But what happens if one's tackle is normally that shade of green anyway?

There are a number of possibilities: Your friend should see a doctor, and get a referral for a sorcerer of some kind to cure the ogre curse, or maybe an oncologist and some anger management therapy.
posted by Sunburnt at 11:42 AM on October 24, 2015 [1 favorite]

But what happens if one's tackle is normally that shade of green anyway?

Then I'd advise not going fishing in the Chicago River on St. Patrick's Day; the fish would never see your lure.
posted by Greg_Ace at 12:49 PM on October 24, 2015 [5 favorites]

in a compositing program you are able to sample a colour, and then get it to replace everything that shade with a different image.

Which of course explains why none of the clothes they're wearing have any green in them prior to the paint slinging. It also looks like they chose lighter colours, greys and pastels. Presumably the software finds it easier when there is a starker contrast.
posted by kisch mokusch at 1:04 PM on October 24, 2015

Dip Flash: "so it is possible at least."

So it is, I guess not as distracting as I thought.
posted by Mitheral at 1:26 PM on October 24, 2015

But what happens if one's tackle is normally that shade of green anyway?

Relax, you can treat that easily by using a different colour paint for your chromakey.
posted by pompomtom at 9:27 PM on October 24, 2015

But what happens if one's tackle is normally that shade of green anyway?

That would be the best CIET Ask ever.
posted by sebastienbailard at 10:28 PM on October 24, 2015

Dip Flash: "so it is possible at least."

So it is, I guess not as distracting as I thought.

But his underwear was more distracting since everyone else had their wangs out.

Also, should I have added a WANGS warning? I was trying to support griphus' new world order.
posted by numaner at 4:32 PM on October 25, 2015

But what happens if one's tackle is normally that shade of green anyway?

Relax, you can treat that easily by using a different colour paint for your chromakey.

(For what it's worth, there's no need at all to avoid the keyed out color in the background layer. The chromakey only gets applied to the clothed foreground images.)
posted by nobody at 6:13 PM on October 25, 2015 [1 favorite]