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Newbie Question: Light Saber Rotoscoping
Ok, I was using Andrew Kramers lightsaber preset to make a movie. However, at one point in the movie, the lightsaber is completely blocked by the actor’s body. How can i make the lightsaber go invisible for only those few frames and make them visible again.
Also, later on, the lightsaber is half blocked by the actor’s head, so that you see the tip of the lightsaber, and the hilt, but not the middle. how do i make it so that the head blocks the middle of the lightsaber?
Thanks. I’m new to Adobe After Effects so your help is really appreciated.
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Didnt he mentioned it in one part of the tut?
You have to draw a mask around the head:
Take the pen tool, make sure your saber layer (if multiple select only one)
draw a mask around the head or the object.
set the mask to subtract by hitting “M” twice and choos Add and make it to subtract.
Now without changing a frame it those first steps set a keyframe for the mask shape and move then to the next frame and “reshape”
the mask so it will stay on the head! (tip:sometimes you can skip 1 or 2 frames, depends on your shot)additionally you can feather the mask a bit!
(BTW: of course you can cover the whole saber with the mask)
(multiple layers: copy the mask and paste it to the other layers!) -
Yeah just watch the tutorial again, Kramer spends like 1/3 of the tutorial just covering this…
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