music video: Crazy by gnarls barkley

[Max Bretherton]

hi…

just watched it.

the people are separate from the ink. they are shot separate and keyed and then tinted black.
the ink has been shot on video i guess and there is some particle work there too that could be done with particular. but the people are not particle work they are straight video keyed, tinted, masked and then composited into the ink shots.

not saying i’ve done anything like that but i can see how it has been gone about.

regards…max

thanks and regards…max

[Steve Roberts]

… and it looks as if the talent could be revealed by animated masks, and possibly something like simple choker (once keyed and blotchy).

Don’t assume it’s a plugin. It’s usually a clever combination of non-plugin techniques. 🙂

[Justin Productions]

You could also look in the COW Archives, 2 persons has already asked this question.

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[Mylenium]

I agree with the others. It’s pretty straightforward – just some (possibly scanned) Rohrschach images, overlayed with the keyed and tinted artists. Yes, there are some “morphs”, but they are absolutely not particle based. Just simple displacements as you can get them with combinations of the Liquify, Reshape effects or their more advanced third-party equivalents such as Re:Flex.

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[Ryan Hill]

You can find more posts by searching for “gnarls.”

It’s a bunch of simple things combined together very well. Mylenium lists most of them, but one more that I think they use is just take a photo of a very organic shape and then animate a threshold filter from 0 to 50 (more or less) you can get a very interesting “growing” look depending on the photo.