Creating a Wound

[Nate Vander plas]

That depends on a number of things, like does the actor turn his head and how close he gets to the camera. Depending on the situation, I think I would probably create a wound with make-up or whatever, photograph it, then cut it out in Photoshop (or AE) and use motion tracking to keep it on the face.
Just out of curiosity, why didn’t they use make-up in production?

[Rojan_man]

I tried cutting out one in Photoshop, and it looks good. I will definitley try the tracking idea. The wound is applied to most of the shots, it was a continuity error that it was not in a few of the takes. Unfortunatly, they are really good takes. If you could point me to tutorials that would enhance my Tracking technique, I would appreciate it.

[John Rich]

This is a little basic, but it might help. jmrser.com and look under tutorials and and the motion tracking one is in the middle.

John Rich

JOHNR

[Nate Vander plas]

You can also check out Andrew Kramer’s tutorial on sky replacement or Aharon’s on cartoonification (the final one). Or just search the forum for motion tracking and read some of the threads.

[Mike Clasby]

Here’s all the Tracking Tuts I know of besides the ones already mentioned, the first four are from adobe support. For a step by step on adjusting a track that goes bad (Tracks gone bad! the movie) see the 3rd part of Aharon’s series on turning video into cartoons, there he tracks an eye onto the character, starts at the 5 minute mark. It’s only a 1 point track but he shows you how to adjust frame by frame when the tracker gets cranky. Hope these help.

Track It

https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=100362&xml=ae65tttrack

Keep motion in perspective

https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=100241&xml=aft65cornerpin

Using the new Motion Tracker

https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=487&xml=aft6ttmotiontracker

Tracking obscured objects in video

https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=399&xml=aft6tracking

Aharon’s tut:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/cartoon_look/index.html

movie here:

https://forums.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/cartoon_look/CC_LiveTrace_Pt_3CD.mov

[Rojan_man]

Thanks so much!