• Adobe After Effects

  making people invisible

  Posted by Porkchop on November 10, 2006 at 12:52 am

  hi there,

  have any of you ran across this site called Worth1000.com? anyways, they have this contest where you take any movie still of a man, woman or item amd make them invisible using photoshop. that’s works fine for just a still image. but what suggestions/recommendations would you have for turning someone invisible in actual video footage in After Effects? like how could i go about filling in the “holes” left behind in the clothing if i use a mask or key effect?

  here’s a link to that site so you can see what i’m referring to: https://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=12569

  thanks in advance

  Sam Moulton replied 19 years, 6 months ago 5 Members · 5 Replies
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  Reloaded

  November 10, 2006 at 11:26 am

  Well, this is a really, really, really hard work. Use clone stamp, pattern and so on from Photoshop. If someone knows how to do it in After, PLEASE… let me know.

  Easy to do by using 3D softwares, once you have the character done, just change the opacity of the body, but in real world… hard work man. As you can see, all the works are just stills not movies.
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  Chris Sowa

  November 10, 2006 at 12:59 pm

  hi
  perhaps you can do it with keying effects?
  you know? with a special coloured background and key it out

  if the person has the same colour like the background it gets invisible too, i think.

  the problem is the 3D perspective…
  you cant show the backside of the clothes eg like in the picture you linked too….

  but i think a first step would perhaps be with keying if you just may use after effects

  greets
  chrissowa
  germany
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  Porkchop

  November 10, 2006 at 2:46 pm

  ah right on! i guess the clone stamp and i are going to become close friends in AE. ha! unfortunately i’m working with video on this project. perhaps i could fake it? thanks for the advice. now i have a starting point.
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  Roland R. kahlenberg

  November 10, 2006 at 7:16 pm

  WIth a motion control rig, one would perform two passes. Once without the characters to get the background and the second pass with the characters in place. The characters would put on skin-tight blue/green leotards and then their costumes over that.

  That’s how I see this being done for video. Just a tohught though.

  Roland Kahlenberg
  broadcastGEMs
  customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files
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  Sam Moulton

  November 11, 2006 at 3:00 pm

  Check out Scot Squires tutorials on rotoscoping where he did a commercial for Levis. he used commotion but the technique would be just the same in ae. a clean plate, an actor, and lots of roto.

  https://effectscorner.blogspot.com/

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