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How to create Titles like “The Body in Question”
It was a show on PBS in the 1970s. The opening sequence was body parts being pushed against a wall of latex, essentially making an emboss of a foot or a leg, etc. But the emboss was very inexact. I’m sure this was actually shot not animated. But does anyone know how I can get that effect in AE?
I want my title to look like its pushing through a curtain and then breaking through to reveal as it comes toward camera and then flies by.
I’m thinking it has something to do with a displacement map?
Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC -
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Hmmm. As F. Scott Fitzgerald says “Our vitality shows not only in our ability to persist but also in the ability to start over.”
Time to think this one from a different angle since I’m not a 3D-er.
Thanks, Dave.
Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC -
One of the CSI openings uses something like this and I use it a lot, it’s very simple, but wont work if you want absolute perfection. create a garbage matte around different parts of the curtain. Just use the luminance levels that your eye sees. ususally that gives you a good idea of what is “closer” or “farther away”. For a body, and depending on where the text is and where body parts are, I’ll create a very rough matte for the stomach, waist and both arms, feather them a little, then use them to reveal or hide the text, the text is ususally moving at such a speed that there is no tracking or roto involved. Not perfect, but very quick, and most people wonder how you pulled a key from the shot.
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You might be able to make something along those lines with Conoa 3D layer but as Dave LaRonde says, a full 3D app is a better tool for this. I’ve never tried it myself but there’s a demo version available.
https://www.toolfarm.com/plugins/index.php/Conoa_3D_Layer
cheers
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Hi,
i think if you want to illustrate the elasticity of the your forground…AE is a rough choice. Maybe try 3D.
if you want to try to cheat it…try displacement maps.
andrew kramer has a cool tutorial here
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/skin_displacement/good journey
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