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[Steve Roberts]

Just about any 3D app. Keep the arms, legs and head inside the ball, and as you bring them outside, make the ball bulge, then pop back into place as the head/limbs pop out.

If that’s not what you want Reggie, you’ll have to be more specific. 🙂

[Reggie Spires]

Thanks Steve .. Guess I was wondering if there was a program that had some pre made parts .. almost like a Mr Potato head (I know you are screaming) for simple animation.

Reggie Spires
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Magic City Productions
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[Frank Thomas]

[Reggie Spires] “Guess I was wondering if there was a program that had some pre made parts .. almost like a Mr Potato head (I know you are screaming) for simple animation.”

Sounds like a good idea for a new plugin. I think it’d be popular with animators.
Come on all you programmers, where’s our Mr. Potatohead plugin?

[Reggie Spires]

Knew someone would fry me…

Reggie Spires
Magic City Group
Magic City Productions
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[Brian Berneker]

Hey even just use still photos and mask them in AE or close crop them in photoshop. You can do tons in AE with the pieces, and use a bit of the puppet tool for good measure. There are a million ways you can do it…

Put the potato in front of your other objects – legs, arms, head, and just scale or slide each body part out of the potato. You can make little black circles grow on the sides of the potato for holes where the parts pop out of.

I recently did a clip with a friend popping out of a jack-in-the -box. I had him masked on green screen, used a mask to cut his lower body off (below his sweater) and added a spring that I would bend using AE’s Bend effect. Manually tracked some clown hair and nose onto him, and used the puppet tool to place a clown suit texture onto his otherwise plain coloured sweater. This whole pre-comp was then popped out of the box using scaling and keyframes.

With a little imagination you can do the same with pretty much any part that you want to grow out of the potato.

Brian