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  • Help me achieve this effect in After Effects: Hands coming out of ears, mouth, nose, etc.

    Posted by Ryan Tang on June 20, 2008 at 5:40 am

    Take a look at the video below. It shows a hand coming out of a person’s mouth. I was wondering how this is done in Adobe After Effects, or what technique or effect is being used to achieve this. I want to do something similar, such as hands coming out of someone’s ears. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=qfLWuHc-sxk

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    Bill Kelly replied 18 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Bill Kelly

    June 20, 2008 at 11:07 am

    For the side shot of the arm coming out of his mouth and staying that way while he’s moving around this is what I’d do. I’d shoot the arm on a green screen, key out the green, crop the arm to where I needed the length to be, and motion track the video. Something on the man’s head would be a good track point. After I got my tracking data I’d assign the position to a null object. Take the arm layer and pickwhip its position to the position data on the null object. Offset the arm layer so it’s lined up coming out of the mouth. That should put you pretty close. You might have to tweak some of the position keyframes a little bit if it doesn’t match up exactly.

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