Yeah Right! (2003) is an influential skateboard film made by Spike Jonze — credited with taking skateboarding into the digital era. Jonze made clever use of digital effects and in a standout film that featured actor Owen Jones sliding down a handrail, one of the most memorable aspects was the invisible boards. When it was released in the early 2000s, many viewers had no idea how the strangely satisfying effect was achieved. Sandwich, an ad agency, explains there was a clue in the end credits. “It was a little more complicated than painting them [the skateboards] green,” Sandwich says in an Instagram post. While the team behind Yeah Right! used green skateboards to achieve the effect, Sandwich notes it wasn’t just a simple color key to remove green from the image. “We’d just end up with a hole where the skateboard used to be,” the narrator explains. What is needed is known as a “clean plate”; an image without the skateboarder.…