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Sand moving across Dancer
Hi, this is my first post. I am sorry if it is posted in the wrong spot. I have dancer footage and a few sample videos of sand and I’d like to almost mimic what MK12 has done in the Quantum of Solace intro. The link below shows exactly what I would like to happen. Skip to 2:22min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh2V2lOOSYI&t=2m22s
I have tried using track mattes but of course the sand will stay within the silhouette of the dancer and I am stumped on how to have the sand continue off of the dancer. I have thought of tracking the dancers movement much like how 3D tracking is done in boujou but…its not quite the same…bit confused.
Thank you very much for any help.
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This was most likely done using a 3d app and some complex particle systems. If anything, Particular or Form my get close. The silhouette of the dancer comes from a real dancer shot on chroma and there may be some motion capture involved as well..
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist -
if you have trapcode’s particular, you can try using a layer (the dancer silhouette) as an emitter, then create a sand-like particle system (lots of rather small particles, maybe some wind and a turbulence field).
i’ve seen a few text-to-sand tutorials using particular that would probably help you get started…
if you don’t have particular, then you might check out some of the other text-to-sand tutorials. good ol’ particle playground may be able to get similar results (and there are some text-to-sand tuts that use particle playground), but you’ll also need to try and incorporate a fractal noise gradient to use with the ephemeral property to get that ripply particle cloud look.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
Thanks guys for the quick advice.
I’m actually working with trapcode form and particular in this project as well. The dancer footage I have is also footage of my own that I have keyed out. So I feel I am soo close. I definitely have run into many tutorials making sand to text or vice versa. I do have the equipment (green screen, and a canon hf21 camera) that can help in capturing actual sand. I was thinking real sand would be much better than particles even if it is trapcode particular.
If I use trapcode particular, you’re right, wouldn’t the particles have to be VERY small? I’d like to keep the silhouette a silhouette and not have the particles define the shape…
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Ah, i see. Particular just might do the job. I’ll try experimenting with real sand as well.
Thanks!
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Okay, I’ve messed around with trapcode particular and its looking much better than I thought it was capable of. However, I am still going to use real sand keyed out from a green screen. Once I have the footage of sand, how do I “link” the footage to the footage of the dancer. Much like how trapcode particular emits particles from the dancer, I’d like to do the same with the sand footage. Any leads?
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