A truly “simple” invisibilty effect?

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Dave LaRonde] “possessing an HDV handycam, a laptop and Adobe Creative Suite qualifies them as the next George Lucas”

It doesn’t, Dave? Damn.

Kathlyn, all that money we spent, well, forget that Star Wars Episode 7 idea that I sold you on…

:o)

Ron Lindeboom

[Ray Apokal]

One overly zealous member came to me with preshot footage described in the original post. I’m just trying to help the kid out.

teach him the painful (but character-building) lesson of rotoscoping. =)

LR Apokal

[Kevin Dearing]

“One overly zealous member came to me with preshot footage described in the original post. I’m just trying to help the kid out.

teach him the painful (but character-building) lesson of rotoscoping. =)”

LOL – hey, you can have him do the project I’m planning on doing to get used to AE: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/932852#932852

And yes, I’m still planning on doing it knowing full well that it’s not going to look professional – learning experience and the whole bluebirds singing under rainbows thing.. 🙂

[Mark Suszko]

I don’t know beans about Aftereffects. But if your shots are locked down when shot or first motion-tracked to generate a locked down plate, you could then perhaps use difference key and then apply an image warp or displacement map to the key signal in a composite. This effect really counts on having a clean master plate, and if you don’t have one you’ll have to roto yourself as well as paint yourself out of the shot, just so you can paint yourself back into it as a displacement. On the bright side, the displacement is supposed to be a visible distortion (that we’re pretending only we the audience can see, so it *should* cover a lot of imperfections in the painted-out layer. But I don’t know anything about AE, I’m just dreaming out loud, based on what I’d try in Combustion.

I wonder if there is a way you could do this using particles.

[Cody Townson]

You seem very knowledgeable so I’ll ask you, I’m planning a scene where a invisible man (predator invisibility) fights another. I think there are a couple of ways of accomplishing this. Please let me know if I’m on the right track.
1. No camera movement, (clean plate) only one actor films the scene by himself.
2. No camera movement (clean plate), both actors film the scene. But the invisible man be in a green suit.
3. No camera movement (clean plate), only one actor films the scene. The other actor (invisible man) films his part on a green screen.

At this time I’m banging my head against the wall trying to figure it out. It would be simple if the invisible man and the other actor didn’t appear together in the same scene. But in order for it to work I have to have them in the same scene. Can you or anyone help me thanks.

I’ll be working with FCP and AE CS5