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Activity Forums Adobe After Effects Edge blur effect in Crash TV series

  • Jim Dodson

    July 18, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    You’re not alone in enjoying Crash’s cool blur effects!!

    I’m pretty sure all you need to do is make an adjustment layer — throw on a blur to that layer then add some heavily feathered masks to the left and right side of the adjustment layer — that “distortion” that you refer to (I theorize) is due to using the very tasty (and very render-intensive) lens blur effect… (also try a little “specular highlight” around 2-5 and lower the threshold to around 240 or so)…

    Of course, I think “Crash” keyframes the masks from time to time to keep the actors from hitting the blur area…

    …this is all pure speculation on my part…

    Jim Dodson

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  • Michael Szalapski

    July 18, 2009 at 8:03 pm

    On effect I quite like is Compound Blur. It uses a layer map (such as a precomped radial gradient) for the amount of blur it applies.
    It’s more render intensive than a fast blur on an adjustment layer (with a feathered mask), but it looks better…although most people wouldn’t notice.

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  • Espen Jakobsen

    July 21, 2009 at 9:43 am

    Yeah, the compund blur is nice…and the lens blur seems to do the trick! Very cool effect.

    Maybe in crash they’ve filmed with lots of DOF and in addition they’ve added the edge blur effect to make a crazy sense of DOF 🙂

    Espen Jakobsen
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