Benjamin Ausmith
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That’s not quite what I had in mind. An image sequence of various grunge filters will be just chaos. I want the grunge itself to animate. There seem to be elements such as dirt and scratches and mold and things like that. I guess animating stuff like that manually might be getting into some heavy Particular type stuff, which might be more hassle than I’m looking for.
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I gotta disagree with that. The anchor point needs to animate– otherwise, the egg will either overlap the surface, or won’t touch the surface, since the shape is uneven. I’m curious about how to solve this too– perhaps animating the anchor point? That is possible, right?
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I guess the technical term is variable speed, but there might be a flashier name. The easiest way to do this in After Effects is probably to right click on your layer and select ‘enable time remapping.’ Then you can control the speed of your clip using keyframes. If you’re going this route, make sure to turn on frame blending, and hopefully After Effects can smooth your motion out a little if you’re slowing your footage down.
Benjamin Ausmith
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Just use Media Encoder to encode the MTS to something lossless like Animation, or lossy like ProRes HQ.
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Faking water won’t work, it has too many properties. Floating, getting things wet, and let’s not forget reflections. Your green screen reflecting in the water is going to give you so many issues.
I agree with using real water, and I’d try to avoid greenscreening if you can. Perhaps a black sheet if you need to obscure the pool. For icebergs, I’d just composite them in.
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Press R twice and shout “DO A BARREL ROLL!”
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I’ve done this effect many times, and I have a slightly different workflow. I like to totally paint out my character in photoshop– this is done really easily using content-aware fill, if you have CS5 or higher. This way, you have total freedom of where to move your foreground object. Using a camera and z-space is good if you want realistic motion. However, I think it’s fun to bend reality a little bit with this effect, free yourself up, and just animate the parallax manually yourself. This way you can have exaggerated depth, and other cool effects. I guess if you only want a slight distortion, Walter’s method is fine. If you really want to play with parallax, freeing yourself up by having a clean background matte can be really fun.
Benjamin Ausmith
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Add some camera shake! Hides your mistakes and makes it seem like it’s adding a greater level of complexity than it actually is.
Benjamin Ausmith
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I’m surprised scaling isn’t working. A good rule of thumb: if something basic, such as a scale or mask, isn’t working, try precomposing the layer, then trying again. Some effects are just finicky like that.
Benjamin Ausmith
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Monadnock Media, inc. -
If it’s stills you want, https://www.sxc.hu rocks. For video, well, good luck searching.
Benjamin Ausmith
Post-Production Assistant
Monadnock Media, inc.