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Create Illusion of Flooded Room
Hey, I was wondering if anyone might have some tips on making a small living room look as though it were underwater. The shot will be parallel with the wall.. and the camera will be looking through the water. Not down on the water or up on the water. It would be a dolly from a tight close up to a wide reveal of the room. Initially, I thought you could see the water line rather than the entire thing being submersed.
I’ve already looked at Psunami (Digital Anarchy) but their stuff seems to be primarily above and looking directly at water. I already plan to shoot small items in a fish tank of water against green to get the buoyancy and key them into the scene.
We’ll use a displacement map on the entire shot. Also, we just tried using fractal noise (and some other parameters) as an alpha to give some movement of light and dark spots over the footage.
I’m hesitant to tint everything blue simply because of the payoff asspect. We’ll probably generate some bubbles and depth.
Has anyone had experience doing this? Or would you be able to add some insight as well “try this”?
Also, the prospect of flooding a room and just shooting through glass also popped in my head but its not really practical.
Thank you so much!
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Is there an indoor pool in your area? YMCA? go look at it. Ask if you can shoot some video.
What you want to study is known as CAUSTICS, those stringy lighting effects. There’s a fitler for caustics in AE.Several old tv series were simply shot through large aquariums in front of the lens.
Rent a couple of seafaring and diving movies to see how real underwater photography is affected by water, light, motion. Then you have to decide what the style is going to be like. Are you going for realism or some kind of stylistic effect? Don’t do anything to your raw footage that you cannot undo.
bogiesan
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I didn’t realize there was a caustics filter in AE. I was merely going to try to emulate that though using the fractal noise. We’re going for semi realism, so that why I was going to shoot in a fishtank on a small house.
I’ve been watching things that were shot underwater to get that general idea. To see the way the light moves around and hits the subject.
However, thank you so much! Have you tried any of this before?
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Hi i just saw your post, have you had any luck so far? I am also trying to also create a simliar effect. I have just got permission from these people https://www.nationalfloodschool.co.uk/flood_house.htm (i am a student)they have a special build house with 8 rooms (kitchen living room, bedroom etc) which they flood to train carpet cleaners, and specialist flood people. its great for filming in.
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No such luck. The client fell through. I think that’s awesome though about the flood house. I’ll have to look for one in my area and see if its a possibility.
Thanks for the heads up though!
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