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Activity Forums Adobe After Effects Fingerprint Face Effect

  • Stephen Smith

    January 18, 2017 at 7:51 pm

    Very interesting effect. At 10 seconds you can clearly see that they rotoscoped the hand. If it was me I would motion track the face and add the hand print. Then roto the hand so it looks like it is in front. You can draw as a mask around the hand and right-click on it and choose track mask. Or use the roto brush. Hope this is of some help and best of luck.

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  • Harper Sherman

    January 19, 2017 at 5:49 pm

    Makes sense, how would you get the handprint asset in the first place? Do it practical and then photoshop it out as an asset? I guess after tracking the handprint to the face you would then animate the lips to move slightly?

  • Greg Gesch

    January 19, 2017 at 11:16 pm

    Hi Harper, I’d suggest you could try making up the the face with green make-up (theatrical stores have green base), cover the rest of the head/hair with green cap. Cover a hand with white/silver goop and place it on the face – fiddle with it to make it look like you want. Make sure you have a clean plate of the background then key out the green.

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