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  • Old school but very creative

    Posted by Mark Suszko on April 14, 2009 at 1:51 pm

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmkLlVzUBn4

    This could easily be used as the underlying technique for some quirky TV commercial. I suppose you could simulate the printed stills using AE, but I don’t know how one would go about that myself.

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    Ang Lizzy replied 17 years ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Matthew Campagna

    April 14, 2009 at 3:52 pm

    That was very cool. That must have taken you a couple of days and a lot of paper. The preparation alone is impressive, but the final video is awesome. Yes, I could see this technique in a commercial.

  • Mark Suszko

    April 14, 2009 at 4:51 pm

    I didn’t do that, just found it.

    However, there should be a way to simulate the same effect in AE without doing the actual frame by frame work with stills. You would have to set up the comp such that it samples and freezes every xth frame of source video, adds a border, slightly displaces it randomly using an expression, slightly alters the gamma and levels to imply change of sun position while shooting,again, thru a random expresison, and you want the effect to run along a motion path that’s wobbled by yet another random expression and keyframed here and there to match the original action in the footage. Meanwhile, the stills need to have a decay rate where they trail behind for a few frames and disappear, or stay “stuck” to the evolvng and moving background plate footage, which you would have to motion track… ugh, my head is starting to hurt! 🙂

  • Michael Cummins

    April 19, 2009 at 11:55 pm

    Sounds like it’d be easier using polaroids…. *smirk*

  • Ang Lizzy

    April 22, 2009 at 3:32 am

    I went to the direct link of the above youtube video. It’s amazing..he used 1300 pictures in order to produce this amazing creation. The way he played with 2D and 3D was so cool!

    Thumbs up!!

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