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smoothing someones face
What’s the best way to smoothen someone’s face so all you can see are the contours of the face but no features? I managed to do one for a shot of someones face who is just staring into camera, using a layer from photoshop and motion tracked it. But this face is turning. Any ideas?
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using the same techniques you used on the photoshop file can be applied in after effects with the paint tool options! you can keyframe the effects when and where to stop and start etc.
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Maltaannon recently posted a tutorial which I think will help you.
https://maltaannon.com/articles/after-effects/high-pass/
Simon Bonner
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High Pass is a sharpening technique, but I think you are trying to racoon these faces?
Racooning is where you roto a protection mask around the eyes, eyebrows, nostrils and mouth and face shape (thus the word raccoon since this is what your masks look like). You then apply a blur to the non-detailed areas, and re-introduce a little grain afterward and possibly high-pass the protected areas. This technique can soften crows feet, bumps, blemishes, etc.
This is a pretty standard retouch technique used on older models and model/actresses, close-ups, and beauty shots of teenagers as well… No ones perfect enough for the camera it seems.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks for getting back but thats not actually what I was after.
What I want to do is make it so the face is smooth and featureless…meaning, they have no eyes but small indents where eyes would be, and no nose, but a small bump where it should…same for lips…so we’re going for a sinister ‘being’ (that is what we have called the character) look.
So their face is almost like a mannequin but without eyes or any details…I hope that makes sense…So I guess what I’m after is way to replace the eyes,nose and lips etc with skin instead.
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This sounds like a job best accomplished using a 3D programme. The small nose, for example, will need to change shape as the face turns. However, you may be able to get some way towards the effect by using some of the techniques in Andrew Kramer’s eye replacement tutorials (and possibly the set extensions tutorial) at videocopilot.net.
I assume you’ve not already shot the footage. Try to film close ups directly on and with minimal sideways movement to maintain the realism of the effect.
Simon Bonner
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hi Phil i was wonder if you ever completed this effect?
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