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water dissolve effect (“Amelie” movie)
has anyone seen any discussion of how the CGI effect of a character in the French film “Amelie” is dissolved into a puddle of water was created? Even some ideas of what sort of workflow (greenscreen/3D/NLE/compositing etc) might have been used would be a great starting point for me.
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Hi, I’ve been looking, too, for a couple of years. Have you rec’d a good reply yet? I saw a tutorial about dissolving text with particle playground, and I think you can swap out the text layer for greenscreen footage and kind of get a similar effect. If you want, I’ll find that tute and post it for you. good luck!
stan heard
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Hey Stan – some things don’t come easy!
After some consideration, it looks like the best way to do that effect would involve 3D modelling, using shaders to create a roughly Amelie-shaped human character that’s textured to look like water. Then animate the model’s texture so it uses water physics to collapse & flow. A bit of roto in the original film of Amelie standing in the cafe to separate her from the background would then allow the 3D render to be composited into the scene with a dissolve between the ‘film’ Amelie’ & the CG water girl.
Pretty time-consuming/expensive effect for such a tiny part of the film. Must be nice to be an established director with decent budgets…
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