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Advanced suggestions on creating ghost FX from smoke?
Hey there AFx users,
I have a quick question.
I’m working on special Fx for a film where ghosts appear on screen from smokeI’ve already tried the method of using fractal noise as a luma matte to produce a fade on of the ghosts with a smoke-like mask (the ghosts are also already green-screened also)
and time based techniques I’ve got a handle on.Though I’m looking for some suggestions on taking the shots to a higher level, perhaps maybe like seen on the show “Supernatural” or maybe even “Ghost rider” – (and of course still kept in AFX)
In other words, anyone with quick suggestions on make the transition more like the ghosts swirling, or evaporating from the sides to there final poses. Maybe a more fluid , ethereal transition.
Perhaps a unique combination of plugins technique to add a additional punch?
thx,
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2 Replies
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Look into Trapcode Form and Particular.
There are some great swirly ethereal effects you can get out of those, and with Form, you can use a layer as an opacity and color layer for the particles in Form, so you can have them coalesce into a shape over time, or disperse into nothingness.
If you go to http://www.trapcode.com and look at the Form examples, you’ll see what I mean. I have the project file for the disintegrating text, and with that file you can see how to use luma maps to drive dispersion of the particles.
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I don’t know too much about particles in AE, but maybe you could set the ghost layers as particle emitters, have them vomit out hundreds of particles that very quickly fade to nothing – adding a wind type physic to blow them off behind might help also. A very subtle time echo on the ghost layers might look nice too.
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