Sat Jun 12, 2021 9:20 am
If it's an individual object, I think you'd have to put a power window over the object, track it, and then blur it as Uli says above. The trick is not making it ugly or noticeable.
If you're willing to spend time and money, I bet it'd be possible for a VFX artist to go in and roto out the object completely and replace it with the background. But it's likely it would not be cheap or easy. I have worked on TV versions of feature films where they had to go in and put "digital clothes" on naked people, remove bloodstains, and even remove guns when they felt they were too threatening. Famously, Spielberg removed the guns from federal agent hands in one of the 1990s versions of E.T., but he later regretted it and has since said he would never again alter any of his films with any revisions like that, no matter how well-intended the change was.
marc wielage, csi • VP/color & workflow • chroma | hollywood