Ghost look with energy, rippling, glowing edges?

[Roei Tzoref]

[Stephen Pickering] ” mind showing me how (or directing me to a tutorial that explains) how Mir works with masks, I would love to see how that works.”

believe it or not but I have never actually used it 🙂
here’s a breakdown:

here’s the project file:
10629_ghost2.aep.zip

Roei Tzoref
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[Stephen Pickering]

So, here’s what I ended up going with. I’m still not totally happy with it, but it got the effect close enough… and I learned some new tools that I have to justify using in the future (using Mir and Shine and a few other stock effects).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMRqApf8cuY&feature=youtu.be

Thank you all again for your help with this!

-Stephen

[Roei Tzoref]

Great. the backdrop looks a bit sharp to my taste. looks too CGI I think. I would try a bit more shine or something to blur it out a bit. this is fun stuff you are doing, I had horror aspirations in the past. I even got into screamfest L.A film festival with a crappy 5 minute zombie move… but I have forsaken them… maybe on day I will get a chance to do something again with this genre… Goodluck!

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