Emulating Gillete Body Wash effect in AE CS3?????

[Simon Stutts]

Create your “spreading gel” animation however you desire, and isolate it to your talent’s body by using track mattes.

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Look into rotoscoping (to isolate the arm), mocha’s planar tracker if you need to follow the movement of the arm, displacement mapping (to have the gel to more closely follow the contours of the arm) and blending modes (to retain the original lighting).

It’s a long a laborious process.

Good Luck
RoRK

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[Joel Hebert]

I’m assuming you are referring to turb. displace under the distort effects? Also, I guess I’d start out with a solid shape and go from there with the treatment and animation?

I shot the each arm movement seperately and I was gonna composite them together to avoid having to do any rotoscoping

[Ramil Pasibe]

Hi Joel,

I don’t think you could get away with shooting each arm separately because that would create a very awkward movement even if you managed to do a good composite.

I agree with every one – there’s no way around it but through rotoscoping – it is indeed a laborious process but that is the only way that you can create a believable effect.