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General Motion Question
most of the time when I animate fast motion with a camera and objects, the difficulty is what to use as a reference to indicate the speed. if you show and circle moving along the horizon with the camera following, if there is no background it or other objects for reference, it might as well be holding still.
Does anyone have any tips or tricks they use to create this sense of large motion? Do people usually use seamless backgrounds and spread them around? Can you use a large a large solid with noise? is it down with lights?
Any comments or suggestions would be welcome.
Josh
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Well, there’s many different ways to suggest fast motion. Having a background with lots of motionblur helps, if the camera stays on the object. Using a seamless background with the offset filter animated does the trick.
Having the object tremble or shake a little due to the supposedly high speed works.
A classic is to stretch the object a little along the axis of movement.
https://home.comcast.net/~harrymott/principles2-1.htmlI’d try to have some other objects pass the camera in the foreground, to show that the camera is moving fast along with the object.
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Let’s look at one of the masters of speed on camera: Michael Bay. In Bad Boys (1994) at the end of the film, the gang is chasing the plane on a tarmac in that old 911 993 Turbo. Bay wanted the sense of extreme speed. So he backed waaaay off and shot it with a 1000mm lens. Plus he purposefully added barracades between the camera and the car as midground elements to accentuate the speed as the car flew passed them.
In AE, without a real BG, a 1000mm lens is quite a bit too much, but in the real world, the cam op could never completely keep up with the car smoothly and the cam is not only shaky, but sometimes couldn’t keep up as the car would almost leave frame and the cam had to jerk over faster to catch up with it again. Instead of barricades, I think you should place other graphicle elements, like say more of those circles halfway between the cam and your subject circle so it really accentuates the speed as the objects fly by.
Obviously turn on motion blur and maybe think about some soundFX as well which does half the work for you.
Chris Smith
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