{"id":18014,"date":"2013-02-19T10:29:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T18:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=8633"},"modified":"2013-02-19T10:29:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T18:29:33","slug":"in-memoriam-petro-vlahos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/19\/in-memoriam-petro-vlahos\/","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam: Petro Vlahos"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t claim to have known his name, but like you I know his work: Petro Vlahos<\/a> pioneered blue- and green-screen techniques & founded Ultimatte<\/a> before passing away this past week at the age of 96. The BBC writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Mr Vlahos’s breakthrough was to create a complicated laboratory process which involved separating the blue, green and red parts of each frame before combining them back together in a certain order.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He racked up more than 35 movie-related patents and numerous Academy commendations.
\nBy coincidence, I came across the following peek behind the scenes of The Hobbit. It bears out what Robin Shenfield from compositing firm The Mill says of Mr. Vlahos’s work: “It’s the absolute building block of all the visual effects that you see in television and movies.”
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