• Adobe After Effects

  How to Remove a Claymation Seam?

  Posted by Alexander Perlman on May 24, 2012 at 8:21 pm

  Hey guys,

  Let me preface by saying that this is my first Creative Cow post. I’m looking forward to your feedback.

  I’m working on a clay-mation short and I need to eliminate the seem where a model’s neck meets its body.

  Here’s a still from the shot. The model in question is the boy in the middle.

  He enters frame from screen left and is on screen for approximately 80 frames.

  I’ve tried the following approaches:
  1) An adjustment layer with a feathered mask and blur
  2) Painting and clone-stamping
  3) Covering up the problematic area with another part of the frame by duplicating the layer, freeze-framing it, masking a clean section of the frame, moving it over the seam, and tracking it with him as he moves.
  4) Using the wire-removal effect

  All of them worked to some extent but none of them were satisfactory. Are there any alternative approaches that can resolve this problem? It shows up again in a few other shots so I want to make sure I’m using the most effective and efficient solution before I invest a lot of time into it.

  Alexander Perlman replied 14 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jansen Raveira

  May 25, 2012 at 12:49 am

  You can try it:
  https://www.revisionfx.com/products/refill/
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  Alexander Perlman

  May 25, 2012 at 4:17 am

  Thanks for responding so quickly, Jansen.

  I’ll try it first thing Monday morning and update the thread to let you know how it goes.
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  Alexander Perlman

  June 11, 2012 at 4:41 pm

  So I tried the Re:fill plugin to no avail despite thoroughly reading the manual. Any other suggestions?

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