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  • Ghost’s Blowing away

    Posted by Timmy Bergqvist on April 29, 2008 at 6:42 pm

    I saw this fenomenastic musicvideo on Youtube yesterday: “The islander” with Nightwish at https://youtube.com/watch?v=hRc9rNDZOCE .

    2:17 in the movie there is this ghost. The edges of that ghost “blows away” in the winds direction in a magnificent way and i was thinking about what plug-in it was for making that effect, and how they made it.

    Anyone got any thoughts?

    Thanks for answers:)

    Jason Smith replied 17 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Del Holford

    May 20, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    Actually the ghost never goes away but the camera cuts. This is cheating but effective. By compositing the “ghost” over the background and using a garbage mask on the ghost, you could vary the opacity of the unmasked and masked parts and use blur on the masked part (the right edge in the video for example) so that as blur increases, opacity decreases. This is my quick version of how I’d do what I saw. HTH

    Del
    fire*, smoke*, photoshopCS3
    Charlotte Public Television
    del underscore edits at wtvi dot org

  • Timmy Bergqvist

    May 25, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    Are you sure they just blured the edges manually? it really doesn’t looks anything like that in the video imo if you look at the other ghosts.

  • Del Holford

    May 27, 2008 at 9:04 pm

    I looked more closely at the video and saw things I never saw the first time. Going full screen helps but YouTube is terrible as far as resolution. There are obviously numerous layers composited in the sequence and transparency with each key and probably some blurring of the matte could help realize the effect. Careful planning of the shoot would be very important. The clothing they are wearing helps create the effect you see as well. This is not a definitive answer, just impressions. If you could get a better version to analyze it might be easier to emulate the effect.

    Del
    fire*, smoke*, photoshopCS3
    Charlotte Public Television
    del underscore edits at wtvi dot org

  • Timmy Bergqvist

    June 9, 2008 at 1:06 am

    Using particles and Trapcode Form solved it semigood, although it could’ve been better.

  • Jason Smith

    August 30, 2008 at 10:48 am

    Ive also seen something similiar to this type of motion effect
    in a horror flick called “deaths of ian stone”.

    Any AE legends care to share a tutorial on this??

    Be interesting to see how you do these really cool effects!

    Cheers
    Jason

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