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  • Moving Painting

    Posted by Beau Merchant on May 27, 2008 at 9:40 am

    Hi there,

    I’ve been asked by a client to make a piece of video look like it’s a moving portrait (kind of like in the Harry Potter movies).

    Is there any effects/filters anyone can suggest for this?

    It’s a video of an old guy in a dark wooden room.

    Many Thanks

    William J. meyer replied 17 years, 11 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Tl Westgate

    May 27, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    Sounds easy enough. Just corner pin the video to a frame.

    I guessing there must be more to this, though.

    — TL

  • Beau Merchant

    May 27, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    Sorry I should have been clearer.

    It’s going to be a flat on movie and I was wondering more about the grain and texture. How to make the video look like it was painted.

    Thanks

  • Frank Thomas

    May 28, 2008 at 2:36 am

    My plugin of choice for this sort of effect is ToonIt, from Digital Anarchy.

  • William J. meyer

    May 29, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    Hi.

    This is less about the painting look and more about the texture.

    After you have affected the footage, I would suggest adding a fabric layer on top with a transfer mode set to Overlay to give the “painted video” the notion it exists on a canvas of some kind. You can adjust the opacity or use other transfer modes depending on your tastes (Multiply and Overlay work best for me).

    Image*After has some free fabric textures that might help:

    https://www.imageafter.com/category.php?category=fabrics

    If you choose one with color, you may want to either desaturate it or apply a Tint filter with the default black and white settings, unless you want the fabric layer’s color to affect your video. Also, playing with the fabric layer’s Curves and Contrast can control the density of the texture.

    Textures scanned from Illuminated Manuscripts also wield interesting results.

    take care,
    -william

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