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How to ‘silhouette’ look in AE ?
I’d like to make a person look like a 2d ‘silhouette’in a colour with the background colour completely different, how can I do this in AE?
TIA….Paul.
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4 Replies
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Method A:
1. shoot the person on greenscreen or bluescreen. Make sure the screen is evenly lit, and the colour is saturated on the screen. Do tests.
2. Use one of AE’s keying effects to remove the green/bluescreen.
3. Use the render>fill effect to fill the person with colour.
4. Place a differently-coloured solid layer under the filled person layer.Method B:
1. With the pen tool, draw a mask around the person to separate them from the background. Use the rotobezier feature. Keyframe the mask shape.
2. Look for other frames where the person’s shape reaches an extreme, say, when a hand extends out, for example. Keyframe the mask shape parameter at those frames.
3. RAM preview, and tweak the keys, or add more. This is tedious, by the way, and called rotoscoping. For more info, search the COW.
4. Fill and add solid layer as in method A.Remember, you need to treat the person and background separately. AE can only tell them apart through brightness and/or colour. The person and background need to have no colours in common if you want to avoid rotoscoping.
It is possible that a combination of the techniques will get the job done, depending on your scene.At any rate, it’s only a quick job if you’ve shot a perfect keying setup in a studio. Or if you’ve shot in front of a clear blue sky, and your talent isn’t wearing blue.
Hope that helps,
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Hi,
You’ll need to separate the person from the background. If you haven’t shot yet…Shoot over blue, green, or white (white for just a few situations). You’ll be able to extract the person by keying. Once you have them separated, you can simply tint that layer whatever color you want. Same for the background. If you’ve already shot them, and they are not keyable, you’ll need to do some rotoscoping to extract them from the background. If they are a still, that would be pretty simple. If they are moving not so much.Mike
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Thought that may be the case, just hoped there might be an ‘easy out’.
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