Making crowds

[Jack Watts]

what you could do is film your 10 soldiers in front of a green screen. Then using Trapcode’s particular have your particle set to custom and use your keyed green screen footage as the source layer! then adjust the rest of particulars settings in accordance with your scene!

Another way would be to film your 10 soldiers over and over again doing various movements and so forth then bunlde all these shots into one scene placed as how you would see fit!
hope this helps!
Jack

[Roberto Torrado]

Hello Jack

Thanks for you advice..
I´m very glad to know that there are two ways to making crowds.
Do you know about DVD collection with tutorials with this techniques or any video to study it?.
The second way I think is very “tired” to clean every take…and complicated to recording, situation of the soldiers..etc..
Maybe the first way is easier and you can control the take with more precision but I need a lot of meters of green screen and much more space…
I have to study these two options in deep..
kind regards

Roberto

hello everybody

[Benjamin Thompson]

A quick google search for “crowds with after effects” will give you great resources with at least one video tutorial using particular to create a crowd, and others reverting back to the cow using other techniques; such as card dance.

Card dance tutorial:
https://forums.creativecow.net/archivepost/2/748659

Particular Tutorial (video):
https://www.metacafe.com/watch/740565/wonderhowto_make_a_crowd_in_adobe_afer_effects/

also found at this link:
https://videotraininglibrary.blogspot.com/2007/10/after-effects-tutorial-how-to-make.html

Hope it helps.

ben

[Drew Osborn]

not so much help… more of a source of inspiration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRS9cpOMYv0

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[David Bogie]

Brian Maffitt at TOtal Training created the CArd Damce filter several years ago when he also ran Atomic Energy Effects. the original AE for AE effects package came with delightfully thorough training tape, more than 2 hours alone on Shatter.
His Let’s a Big Crowd demo for Card dance used two interwoven layers of cards; one for the torsos and one for the arms of each character. The main Card Dance made the two layers move together but the arms were hinged at the shoulders so they could moved separately. This allowed great audience wave effects using z displace to move the characters up and down and another grayscale pattern to pivot the arms over the heads. Seems he had an advanced version that included a head movement option.

Card Dance is very cool.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Bruce Rudolph]

Theres an excellent example of what you need at fxguide, achieved by Gareth Edwards for the BBC production of Attila the Hun, with after effects and 3DSMAX.

Have a look at the article here:
https://www.fxguide.com/article463.html
Dont miss the video breakdown (link above the first green screen image)

and this one as well:
https://www.discmakers.com/community/resources/edge/2008/NewModel.asp

Cheers
Bruce

[Roberto Torrado]

Hi!
Thanks a lot to Bruce, David, Drew, and Benjamin for your help.
Now I have to study many options…
I´ve been watching all options and they are all incredibles results.
best regards
Roberto

hello everybody