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Glowing outlines flying toward camera
Hi all,
I’m about to start a music video project and my director has a VFX request. I thought I might shop it around here as I start to noodle on it to see if you folks had any insight.
Basically he’d like to have the outlines of an actor emanating from around them and flying at the camera. The actor will be shot on green, so I can get a decent matte of them most likely. I’ve attached an example pic he sent me that sort of shows what he’s going for.
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I’ve just started playing around with it and was thinking of things like the radio wave effect, but my preliminary experiments weren’t very promising.
If anyone has any thoughts I’d love to hear them!
Cheers,
Cory
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6 Replies
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Luckily it will be shot on a green screen. It’s the actually radiating outline effect I’m brainstorming now.
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Pull key. Render black and white matte. Find Edges. Multiply and use that as 3d layers to create effect.
That’s one way I can think of.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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I was thinking you could use the effect Generate > Stroke and place it in 3D to have the move toward the camera(though you would lose resolution) or better, use Trapcode Stroke. Check out this tutorial – Creating Super Tight Junk Mattes–that would give you the masks needed for the strokes.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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Yeah, I was playing with 3d Stroke and some autotraced masks on some old test footage. It seems like a good plan. I was hoping to find a way to generate the waves instead of instance each of them, but this is a good direction for sure. That tutorial looks promising, as well. Thanks!
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Cory –
3D Stroke has some pretty sophisticated Repeater controls, which should allow you to do just what you want.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Try exporting your comp to frames, then open those frames up in a professional image editing application like MS Paint and then add the outlines in frame by frame. This is probably the fastest and most efficient way to achieve this effect.
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