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live action healing wounds
Hello,
I had a question about about the healing cut and gash effect seen on NBC’s Heroes. I thought that they may film the actor and then create cuts and scratches in photoshop and then somehow motion track the cut images to the persons body (or face or whatnot) Does anyone have a good recommendation to recreate this effect? if you were to create cuts and scratches in photoshop, would it be a good idea to use some green or blue tracking dots on the talents face for better motion tracking?
please let me know what you think, thanks for your time.
-Sabin A.
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6 Replies
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It would generally be easier and provide better results to film the ‘healing’ scene twice, once with the talent in their wounded makeup and once without. There will still be some inconsistencies between each take, especially if the camera is not locked down, but it should make it easier to get good results with simple roto work.
That said, I would definitely advise against using green or blue dots on your talent… How do you plan on getting rid of those?
Darby Edelen
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hmm… so basically film the talent without makeup. then in another take film them with the makeup trying to match the camera moves and talent moves as close as possible (assuming the camera is not locked down) and then just mask out wounds with mask expansion?
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I think they film with makeup until they have to do the healing shot – and in the healing shot, they do it with CGI.
The effect shots in those sort of scenes are usually locked down, or the actor moves very little.
And when the shots aren’t locked down, you can often see just a hint of shake. As good as the stuff on Heroes is, it’s not always perfect, so you can see how they do it.
Still, it’s my favorite show on network TV. And it’s nice to see one of our boys go legit(Masi Oka was an animator, and still worked at ILM during season 1)
Wow that went off topic…
Aharon Rabinowitz
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Hmm, just a thought…..
How about if you stab your actor and film the scene, then in two months, reshoot the scene with just slight scarring.
….then again, maybe not.
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Just making a rough guess here and it probably won’t look nowhere near as great as opposed to doing it with something like Maya but if you had a good picture of the wound, perhaps you could motion track it or simply place it in frame by frame onto your actor and then over time have it decrease in opacity as well as decrease the size of the mask from the sides inwards.
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Masi was also a TheaterSports improv guy, he’s very nice, and totally deserves his success…
Uh, AfterEffects.. there, not a total thread hijack…. LOL
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