#Replacing Carpet in Pic
I have an interesting project. We have a photograph of a room full of
furniture. I need to be able to swap out the carpet in the room with various
carpet samples. This shouldn't be that difficult. Just use Photoshop or
whatever and cut out the carpet. Create a floor in 3D Studio that approximates
the angle of the floor and apply a texture map that is created with a photo of
the carpet. Render it and Video Post the furniture over the resulting picture.
The only problem is that I have to keep the shadows in the shot. I'm sure this
can probably be done somehow with alpha, but what would be the method? Should
you shoot the furniture "blue screen"? And somehow edit out the heaviest
blues? I'm not sure how to approach this. I suggested modeling the furniture
in 3DS but that was nixed.
Brent Bonet – POP! Multimedia Atlanta