Levi's — Quality Never Goes Out of Style · Chapter 8 of 9
Cleanup & plate preparation
Removing the performer from every plate — manual paint where it matters, AI where it repeats.
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Before the robot went in, every trace of the performer in the green suit had to go — as if he had never been there. On a tight schedule we used a hybrid pipeline.
- Manual cleanup in Nuke and Photoshop: roto, projection paint, reconstruction of walls, clothes, tables and ground. For hero shots and anything with complex parallax.
- AI-assisted cleanup on static and slow shots to speed up repetitive paint, then refined by hand in Nuke to remove artefacts.
- Original shadows kept and rebuilt separately where possible.
- Degrain before projection, regrain to match the camera noise.
AI assistance cut cleanup time per shot by almost half, without losing realism.
ToolsNukePhotoshopAI inpainting
Film & CG
Commercials, music videos and CG characters — shot, built and finished in one pipeline.
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