• Adobe After Effects

  How to animate a tangerine peel into a person

  Posted by Olly Lawer on March 2, 2010 at 1:39 pm

  Hi,

  I am very new to after effects and a potential client has asked me if I can animate a tangerine peeling into a person. At this stage the answer is no, but maybe someone here could direct me to a how to page?

  Kind regards,

  Olly Lawer

  Olly Lawer replied 16 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Szalapski

  March 2, 2010 at 2:18 pm

  Are they wanting a tangerine to peel revealing a person inside rather than delicious fruit? If so, why not do it practically? Get some material and coat it with stuff to make it look like citrus peel and put your actor inside it. Practical stuff almost always looks better than digital. (Also, it’s more fun.)

  If it must be digital you would need footage of a tangerine being peeled and then you could compose your person (shot on a green screen) into the shot.

  As someone new to After Effects, you will find this page and ALL of it’s links to be very helpful. (Many folks are particularly fond of the free VideoCopilot training linked from there.)

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  Olly Lawer

  March 2, 2010 at 6:02 pm

  I couldn’t agree with you more.

  Thanks for the advice and links! A great help.

  PS it’s so fun playing with AE – but takes hours of time!!

  Olly Lawer

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