Making a Run Over Effect in AE

[Mylenium]

Mask/ key out your character and then use simple position and scale keyframes to get him “squeezed” out of frame.

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[Jon Walker]

Basically you need to shoot a plate of the ambulance driving by without your actor. Then you need a plate of the exact same shot minus the ambulance with your actor reacting as if they were being hit by the ambulance. Then you need to composite the shots together adding effects Mylenium mentioned earlier to sell the shot. You may have to do some rotoscoping to knock them out of frame completely, but without sophisticated wire rigging or stunt men it is a tough effect to sell. If done right it can look realistic but you may just have to try a few different techniques to get the look that works for you.

[Mike Smith]

I’ve seen this done in post as described – a background shot of a room without an incoming bull(in this case), a bluescreen shot of the bull charging, and a blue screen shot of the (in this case) grannie being gored.

The crew used a big boxing glove on a pole to “hit” her and give her something to react to, and had her dragged out fast by a wire around her waist, while another wire on a runner overhead helped keep her folded-at-the-waist and upright, rather than flattened.

All keyed in a DS Nitris system (in near-realtime in Hi Def), the composite worked – the shot “sold”, even to close-watching and critical audiences.