Casino royale intro graphic sequence

[Steve Blacker]

First a disclaimer: I am by no means an expert in AE, I’m a student learning this stuff, albeit at the ripe old age of 37…

In any case, I’d imagine the figures are created by keying actors on a green screen and then using the alpha channel to create the cutout figures.

That type of shatter effect could be achieved with something like the Pixel Polly plugin, perhaps?

[Hunter Christy]

my guess is that, if you’re referring to the cut outs that ARENT daniel craig, they shot footage, then rotoscoped the video to maintain stylized look. meaning, they rotoscoped the white of the bad guys shirt. it doesn’t look to be an effect: just a lot of hard work, which is why you don’t see it all that often.

THE BiG HONKIN’
“The Defenders Of Stan”-lots of after effects

[Christian Wheel]

What I’d do is have my actors wear highly contrasting outfits, film them against a green screen, then after keying, use Levels to make the contrast as high as I could. From there you can use Auto-Trace to get the basic shape patterns and tweak your animation as you see fit. Definitely not an easy project.

~Christian

[Jeffrey Reiber]

WHat about cell shading? That might be a good try, I’m still new to After Effects and I’m trying to do that very thing