Tropic Thunder Credits

[Michael Szalapski]

Are you asking about the credits that the Executive Producer is smacking away while he dances or the comic book look of the actors’ credits?

Since the other credits are just keyframed text, I shall assume you mean the 3d comic look.

You can very easily approximate the look by saving a still of your video and taking it into Photoshop to give it the cartoon look. (There are tons of ways to achieve this effect. Check out the Adobe Exchange for some automated ways to do it.)

To make it have that 3d-type motion try searching the forums for The Kid Stays In the Picture It’s an effect that’s been asked about a lot.
Then it’s just about timing your edit and good animation.
It’s relatively simple to do; it just takes good planning, creativity, and quite a bit of time and work.
The only thing you’d have missing is Tom Cruise dancing in a ridiculous fat suit to a rap song.

– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)

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