Tape House Digital, New York, handled compositing for the complex "Man at His Best," a commercial for Panasonic Home Theater. (television advertising production company makes TV screen appear like riverbed)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, October, 1996 by Dickson, Glen

Tape House Digital, New York, handled compositing for the complex "Man at His Best," a commercial for Panasonic Home Theater shot by Larry Shiu of Metro Pictures for Grey Advertising. For the scene of a Civil War cavalry charge, Tape House used the Discreet Logic Flame to composite a Panasonic television screen into a riverbed.

"This scene was too large to be filmed against a blue screen," says Michel Suissa, Tape House director of visual effects. "So we used the Flame to extract mattes and enhance the perspective. We had to rebuild the entire scene, remove the riverbed and trees from certain areas of the frame and add other elements to make everything appear seamlessly integrated into the final scene." Suissa says the cavalry scene required 45 layers of compositing.