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  Double-chin chop

  Posted by Elvin Turner on February 29, 2008 at 10:23 am

  Hi

  A client has just reviewed the first cut of a video and whispered to me after the meeting “Can you do something about my double chin?” I said I’d have a think but don’t really know where to go.

  Any ideas? It’s a standard interview shot of her looking across 2/3 of the screen at a 45 degree angle.

  I’m running AE CS3 and Final Cut Studio.

  Thanks Elvin

  Elvin Turner replied 18 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Antony Buonomo

  February 29, 2008 at 12:51 pm

  There is a showreel piece over on Imagineer (makers of really good motion-tracking and roto software Mocha, Monet etc) which shows a man in an interview situation. He is sweating and the client asked for the removal of the beads of sweat and the shiny patches. It looks great but what you have been asked to do is much harder. Think about it: you will need to motion-track and re-sculpt her face in 3D. Very subtle and very hard to make invisible and believable. You may be lucky that softening/lightening a couple of shadows will do it, but probably not. My advice is; don’t commit to it but experiment. I think there are very few ways to make it look good but very many ways to make it look bad.

  Convince her that she’s beautiful.

  A

  Vertigo Productions
  https://www.vertigo.co.uk
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  Adam Welch

  February 29, 2008 at 2:45 pm

  Depending on how she’s framed, you could letterbox her interview (and other interviews in the piece for consistency)… or you could put a soft feathered mask around her face, and apply a gentle blur and darkening effect to everything outside the mask. If she doesn’t move her head around alot, this could be an easy and quick fix without the headache of motion tracking and/or rotoscoping.

  Is there a way to get creative and horizontally dissect the frame, selectively blurring/color adjusting various pieces, and in so doing soften up the chin area?

  Or you could do a picture-in-picture, scaling down her interview shot and embedding it in a graphic bg of some sort…? I’m just trying to think of some time-effective solutions, since digital removal of body parts is a labor-intensive operation that I probably wouldn’t have time for.
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  Jason Milligan

  February 29, 2008 at 9:12 pm

  How prominent is this double-chin?
  Is it a head-on shot, profile, both?
  Cloning and liquefy could be used to solve your issue if her second chin isn’t too monstrous.
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  Elvin Turner

  March 4, 2008 at 3:10 pm

  Thanks all for your responses, very helpful and much appreciated…:-)

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