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Hit by truck effect
hi.
I’ve just started my final movie project at school. I’m making the movie together with five other guys, and we’ve just finished the story. In the story one guy gets driven down by a car og truck in the end. And this effect I need to make. I’m pretty familiar with after effects, and therefore I’ve decided to make the effect 🙂 But since we have not got a blue- or greenscreen to use, I’m wondering if it is possible to do without. I’ve seen this https://www.videocopilot.net/reel.html just in the beggining is the effect we need. And in this clip Andrew haven’t used bluescreen, or has he?
But anyway, I would really be happy if anyone could tell me how to do it. 🙂
Thanks
Jacob -
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You can take the frame where the guy gets hit, cut him out and then distort that cut-out with key frames over time. The Clone Stamp Tool can then get rid of his old image going forward. And as always, sound effects make the effect..
Regards,
Joe Springer
Certified Adobe After Effects Training and Premiere Training Instructor -
Unfortunately that is not an effect that i am famliliar with, but if you can maybe link a tutorial I will be thankful 😀
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I did it years ago… in Photoshop and FCP. You can tap through the frames and see that the mix of footage is only on three very vague frames. The whole effect is sold by sound design.
See:
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Thank you very much both of you. I will give it a try 🙂
Just to be sure – it would be esiar to do with a green screen, right?
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Weigh the simplicity of using Keylight to give your subject an instant matte with the complexity of setting up the screen and all that business.
In my example it’s only a 3 frame effect, your’s may be more, but no more than 10.
In my example I composited the body over the speeding vehicle because the body was smaller, requiring less roto points.
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[Jacob Czepluch] “Just to be sure – it would be esiar to do with a green screen, right?”
No. This is a different kind of shot altogether. As Dave LaRonde points out, the secret to pulling this off is in locking down the camera (so that the footage is from the EXACT shot angle and position), shooting it in two passes — one with the person faking the hit without the truck in it and the other is the truck passing through the scene.
Using masks you can then “reveal” the man being hit just at the opportune moments. As Ian Corey points out, this is an effect that is really sold through the sound fx even moreso than the visual (which will happen very quickly if done correctly).
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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the difference matte filter could be an easy way to generate the matte if the camera is going to be locked down.
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