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Ghost’s Blowing away
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:)
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5 Replies
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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
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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.
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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
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Using particles and Trapcode Form solved it semigood, although it could’ve been better.
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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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