Pixel Corps at the Apple Store

Yesterday, I headed into San Francisco for Macworld 2006. New Apple hardware aside, the show was not as exciting as others I remember attending in the past. The show could have just as easily been called ipod expo '06 as it seemed that a large portion of the booths were pushing ipod related accessories. I didn't have high expectations going in as most of the exciting stuff is now announced at Siggraph and NAB, but I still felt the show fell short.

The great thing that I did manage to see yesterday, however, was the Pixel Corps presentation at the SF Apple store (a few blocks away from the Macworld convention). Alex Lindsey of the Pixel Corps gave a very detailed presentation on shooting and compositing a subject against a green screen using a Sony CineAlta camera. I was simultaneously surprised and very appreciative of the depth that he went into. The image below shows me (I volunteered to be the subject) on the big screen at the store just before Alex demonstrated a quick test key in Apple's "Motion" software. He later went on to assemble a final key using Apple's "Shake" software.