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Copying effects of certain commercial
I know this must be a trivial question. If anyone has seen the Milwaukee’s best tv commercials, where a giant beer can falls on top of a guy, i would like to make my own spoofs.
Will adobe after effects allow me to add a giant, falling beer can to my homemade video clips?
If so, any pointers or suggestions? thanks a lot.
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You can do that, and more in After Effects.
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thanks, i’ll give after effects a try. any tips?
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the best way would be to make a prop beer can, and shoot the shot twice
once with your actor doing what ever un manly thing he would be doing, than a second with the large prop can falling. than add them together using masks and ther you go -
Make the beer can as big as possible, maybe fill it with sand or something to dampen the bounce, shoot on an evenly lit green backdrop, and try to shoot high speed to get slo-mo.
Actually, they might have used a 3D CG can (Lightwave, MAX, Maya, SoftImage?) to control the situation better. Maybe. I haven’t seen the spot.
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I think the easiest way is this to shoot the scene where the guy is doing whatever and then have him act out the can falling on him (Clip 1). Then cut but DO NOT MOVE THE CAMERA and have him laying on the ground and get that shot (Clip 2). Then take your beer can and place it on the ground, so the lighting would match and take a picture with the same camera or film a few seconds and then take a frame freeze.
THEN in post, load all three into AE. Start wih Clip 1 and continue to where the bottle hits him and remember that point. Now, if you have photoshop, load the still frame into photoshop and erase the background until all of it is just the beer can and a transparent background. Then place that image over the point where the bottle hits him. The back up a few frames and the keyframe the bottle landing on top of him. Then turn on the Motion Blur for that layer. Now this has to be a quick edit. When the bottle is over your actor, cut that layer off and place Clip 2 exactly under neath it. Then you can add sound effects and render. Pretty basic way.
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