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Stone Sour “Through Glass” Cardboard cut out effect??
I’ve been trying to figure out how this “cardboard cut out” effect was pulled off in the music video “through glass” by Stone Sour…..it’s a really cool effect….does anyone have any ideas on how something like this can be done in After Effects CS3??
here is the link to the music video on YouTube..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIzDsGyxsQMlet me know…..thanks
D-Napps
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A great effect, very subtle. I am interested as well how it was done.
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I watched about 30 seconds before that put me to sleep. At what time does anything cool happen that looks like cardboard cutouts?
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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I think it’s about halfway through that the effect starts to happen. People that are in the live action scene become cardboard cutouts and are then hauled away by a stagehand. It’s a pretty cool effect.
Seems to me to pull off the effect would take some preproduction planning. If I were to attempt to do this, I would film the actors on green screen, knowing the distance and angle they should be from the camera in the composited shot and shooting them in that position. After shooting the green screen shots, I would pick the frame from the green screen footage that I wanted them to become “cardboard” and key out the green, export an image, and have that printed to an actual cardboard cutout.
I’d then film the scene with the cutout in place, layer the keyed green screen footage over the cutout, and fade that layer out when the stagehand approached, leaving only the cutout that was beneath it (and actually there the whole time). The stagehand would pick up the cutout and walk out of the scene. If planned out right and executed with precision I think this would work.
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There was a thread about this around a year ago and someone posted a link to the director narrating a ‘behind the scenes’ vid. Seek and ye shall find. Cool effect done well. Dull music.
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Nice post, Bill, you’ve got more patience than I do to sit through music like that.
I wish to repeat your admonition: “preplanning.” Having skilled directors, art direction, effects artists and photographers in the same room at the beginning of planning wil make the post production go far more smoothly/
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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i would do it like this 🙂
https://video.aol.com/video-detail/stone-sour-through-glass-commentary-by-tony-petrossian/1271869008
(The good stuff is at the end of the video)Can it be done is cs3? I think so, but I think it would be easier with the help of a better tracker.
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