• Adobe After Effects

  Trapcode Human Transition

  Posted by Josh Brine on April 26, 2012 at 12:08 am

  Ok, im having a spot of trouble finding a decent effect for a supernatural transition of a character.

  i currently have

  1, clean plate
  2, roto of character
  3, Particular effect, with ROto layer as Layer Emitter

  I have 4 seconds to make this person ‘appear’ in shot.

  that means that the 4seconds of footage needs to be a reversed dispersal, so the particles need to go inwards. but i cant just reverse the footage because when the transition ends the shot continues ordinarily, but the character will ‘jump/skit’ and be out of position.

  anyway. here are some questions/queries.

  1, how do i reverse the effect but still have the character in the right place at the end of that layer?

  what i mean by this is that the the talent walks backwards, if i reverse it then when the transition ends the talent will be far forward of where he needs to be when the original layers kick back in.

  2, How do i make the character actually form in a realistic way but interesting way?

  at the moment, the particles just emit from the characters body. i have messed with them to get some ok effects, but really nothing interesting, and it looks very 2 dimensional. if i use say 1mil particles then i get a rough glowy form for his body. but its not really very good.

  could someone please help me?

  Josh Brine replied 14 years, 4 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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