• Adobe After Effects

  Wood Alive

  Posted by Johan Hoogendoorn on September 3, 2007 at 5:00 pm

  Hi,
  I’m working on a videoclip for some friends of mine and am looking fir some artistic advise/ideas.

  Ok, the main idea looks like this:
  https://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1313232211&size=o
  ‘panes’ of the singer are floating in this wood (sometimes also a lady passes – but not in this pic)

  the camera is slowly (and sometimes not so slowly) zooming in/out, reveals other panes, etc

  The wood is ‘sort of 3d’, generated from a picture, following the Camera Projection tutorial of andrew kramer. https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html

  I’m going add trees.

  But:
  What else could I do to make the wood ‘alive’?

  bees.. falling leaves.. birds..

  any ideas?

  thanks in advance.

  jh

  Johan Hoogendoorn replied 18 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Malcolm Desoto

  September 3, 2007 at 6:27 pm

  Maybe add some particles as either dust or fairy type things?
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  Finalrenderfilms

  September 3, 2007 at 7:55 pm

  You could maybe add some birds by using Aharon Rabinowitz technique in part one and two of his bird flock tutorial, found here, https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/bird_flock1.php, and here, https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/bird_flock2.php,
  hope this helps a bit.

  Mark
  Final Render Films
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  Mike Clasby

  September 3, 2007 at 8:50 pm

  In your example I think it would look good to play up the misty aspect.

  As a test I did fractal noise on a New Black Solid, chased with Knoll Unmult (to make the dark areas of fractal noise transparent). Knoll is a freebie, here:

  https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/unmult.html

  On a new Black Solid above, add Fractal Noise
  (animate the Transform>Offset within the plugin
  Unclick Uniform Scaling, animate with sliders (increase the Scale width 4 to 5 times as much to get a streaking flowing mist
  Evolution, animate over time for organic movement
  Opacity: 30-40%

  On top of all that I added a duplicate of the Woods, masked off the tree trunks, feathered it so the mist wrapped the trunks a bit, and varied the opacity of the mask depending on how far the tree is into the woods (less transparent the farther in), and it looks nice, like a light mist flowing through the woods.

  Alternatively try muted godrays coming into the woods, or both, mist and rays.
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  Johan Hoogendoorn

  September 6, 2007 at 10:34 am

  wow, these are terrific ideas!
  birds, god rays, mist
  I’ll try it all and let you know

  jochem

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