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Replicating this effect from the movie 300
Do you guys know the part where when the mian character goes and asks the gods or rather those deities were they? and they look like they are swimming around? I can take like it was shot in a pool of some sort, and maybe masked her in or something? How is it done. Heres a pic. I really want to learn. And I’m hungry to absorb as much as possible in AE knowledge.
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Might want to see if you can locate a copy of CineFex magazine issue 106, there is an article on creating the visual effects of 300, including the oracle scene you’re referring to.
I’ll dig out my copy and see if I can give you a recap….Erik
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Damn O.o I’d love to know this too… consider this a bump… hope someone who knows responds asap 😀
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Ok…it’s just a short paragraph:
The Ephors consult their Oracle, a young Spartan woman who undergoes an orgiastic trance caused by inhaling hallucinogenic smoke. Production shot the Oracles’s trance at 150 frames per second, ‘wet-for-dry’, with the performer submerged in a water tank in Montreal, backed by bluescreen. “The water tank gave the Oracle a very ethereal look,” said Hunt. “We had to solidify the look between when she was in the water and when she was out of the water, matching skin tonality and specularity.” Sinuous, coiling smoke-trails involved digital cloth simulations generated in Newtek’s Lightwave 3d 8.5. “We morphed geometry through an animated bone chain. That gave us a random smoky look while allowing us to control placement. We rendered multiple passes and used Eyeon’s Digital Fusion to put them together with glows, dissolves and practical smoke elements.”
-Cinefex number 109 April 2007
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So is there any realistic way of doing this with AE and Trapcode Particular or any other plugins, and blue/greenscreen footage of an actor?
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