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  • Simon Bonner

    March 16, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    Yeah, this can be done easily in after effects. Just save a copy of the frame you want to freeze on and then reimport it (or set your layer as a freezeframe). Then cut around the person in that layer and apply [what I think is called] the threshold effect to it, making it monochrome. Use the pen tool to draw a mask around the person. Add weird background and text (millions of ways to do this!). Then keyframe the position and scale properties of the person-layer (select the layer, hit P and shift+S, hit the stopwatch for both properties and then change them over time).

    This should give you a decent approximation. If you’re new to AE and don’t understand some of the concepts in this post, check out Andrew Kramer’s beginner’s tutorial series at videocopilot.net to get up to speed.

    Simon Bonner

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