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Head Burst Help!
Okay guys here’s the deal. I have this shot where a character’s head is shot off. Im using Andrew Kramer’s Blood bursts with this but I also wanted to paint out the part where his head actually is shot. My character is laying on his back on the ground so he never leaves the frame. This is why Andrew’s tutorial doesn’t fully apply here. How shouyld I tackle this? I’ve tried using the stamp tool to clone the surrounding ground elements right at the moment he’s shot but its a handheld, so the camera moves a bit. Ive tracked the shot as well but not sure what to do from here. Can u guys help? Im including links to 2 screen grabs so u can see what I have. Thanks guys! 🙂
https://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g109/Bonesone4/Picture1.png
https://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g109/Bonesone4/Picture2.png
Bones
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2 Replies
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You might try something like this.
Duplicate your layer.
On the top layer, mask the area around the head in a irregular shape, change the mask to subtract. You now have a hole where his head was. Adjust the mask feather a little to soften the edges.
Move the duplicated layer to position a bit of the grass that doesn’t have his head in it, to fill in the hole.
Most likely since this fellow has just had his head removed, you’ll be compositing in blood and lumps of brain and skull, covering up a lot of the area where his head was. Experiment a little with it.
Probably too late for this, but this shot should have been planned as a mix of digital and practical effects. Andrew’s effect works well because the guy disappears off frame after the headshot. You’re going to have a harder time selling the effect since there (I presume) were no practical gore effects shot, such as blood and chum on his shirt and ground. These will need to be composited in, and quite frankly digital blood by itself, just looks like digital blood. Recent films like George Romero’s “Land of the Dead” have used digital blood effects to accentuate “R-rated” practical effects to make them even gorier.Erik
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You need some sort of a clean plate to clone to. I did this effect for a video and have a character stay in frame the entire time as well, but I had the camera steady and used a still when his head wasn’t in that location to fill in when his head exploded.
Without that, you’re sort SOL. You might be able to pull off a great photoshop job on one frame and remove him, then place that behind your footage.
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