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  • Simon Bonner

    February 15, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    Is this a ‘real’ scene with actors, or some motion graphics?

    Simon Bonner

    youtube.com/simonsaysFX

  • Melissa Kern

    February 15, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    it’s a 3D scene, there are actors that I green screened and dropped into what is basically a diorama (stacked layers as back ground, etc…)..

  • Steve Roberts

    February 15, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    If you are using a light, make it a warm colour and apply a wiggle expression (with numbers for just the freq & amp, omit the rest) to the light’s position or point of interest so the shadows wiggfle around a bit.

    That’s one way …

  • Darby Edelen

    February 15, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    [Steve Roberts] “If you are using a light, make it a warm colour and apply a wiggle expression (with numbers for just the freq & amp, omit the rest) to the light’s position or point of interest so the shadows wiggfle around a bit. “

    I would also recommend wiggling the intensity of the light.

    In case you’re not familiar with wiggle here is the basic structure:

    wiggle(f, a); //f = frequency (how often) and a = amplitude (how much)

    You apply this to a property by adding an expression (opt-shift = or opt-click on the stopwatch) and typing the above code in (only replace f with your frequency and a with your amplitude).

    Darby Edelen
    Designer
    Left Coast Digital
    Santa Cruz, CA

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