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  • Whisping away like a genie

    Posted by April Henderson on April 19, 2008 at 6:45 pm

    Can anyone recommend an effect for a person…who is whisping away like into a genie or perhaps a ghost….

    I’ve tried a few of the distortion effects but not quite satisfied yet…

    🙂

    Tl Westgate replied 18 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Grant Swanson

    April 19, 2008 at 9:15 pm

    Try using a displacement map with a black and white smoke video (you could even create your own using Fractal Noise) as the source of the displacement (I would probably increase the contrast of the smoke video, and blur it out slightly as well).

    As the displacement becomes more intense, simply decrease the opacity. You could also play around with the layer’s blending mode.

    Hope that helped!

    -Grant Swanson

  • Tl Westgate

    April 21, 2008 at 12:40 am

    Maybe some of the smoke footage from Detonation Films would work for you as a luma matte?

    https://www.detonationfilms.com/free_stuff.htm

    — TL

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