Chris Smith
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Here’s the scene file as well:
https://sugarfilmproduction.com/blur.aep
Need AE7 + Trapcode Particular
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Here’s a quick test of what I described in the previous post:
https://sugarfilmproduction.com/blur1.png
https://sugarfilmproduction.com/blur2.png
https://sugarfilmproduction.com/blur3.pngAlso those effects are from what is called “Circles of confusion”. Here’s the Wiki on them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_confusion
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Also try “lenscare” which is the best lens blur simulator out there. But if you’re not going to rack focus, then I would just create the shapes with a mask on a solid and mess with transparencies so the edges are brighter than the core of the shape. Also add a little mask feather to smooth the edges. Then use that as a custom particle in Particular, set the colors to be varied and add a small. Lastly add the Glow effect over the particular output and possibly set the layer to ADD transfer mode over tour BG.
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Cinema 4D will do animated parenting 🙂 You could try it in that.
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Cinema 4D will do animated parenting 🙂 You could try it in that.
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If the camera was locked off, you don’t need to do an articulate roto, just a garbage mask around one of the two. Unless they overlap then it’s detailed roto time. I did a spot where I had one monkey that had to look like 3 and a loose roto around 2 of them to put them into the 3rd was all it took to make the shot.
Check out a few threads down there is a new tutorial on rotoing. In it he did the same thing, did a loose garbage matte to put an element elswhere in the same scene. If the BG doesn’t change, you can get away with murder.
Of course it goes without saying that just shooting blind and trying to fix it later is always going to get you in trouble rather than planning the shot in the first place.
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Yeah for Star Wars, ILM would often park the model on blue dowels and move the motion control by it, not the other way around. Star Trek movies as well.
As far as motion, ILM had a math formula they would use when shooting models. I didn’t see it offhand in a quick Google search but it’s in one of their books on the history of ILM.
But basically you find the relationship with the scale of the model with the scale it’s real size counterpart, then overcrank your camera when shooting to a framerate based on that difference. This way the slowness creates the illusion of mass. Like in Temple of Doom when the water tower fell over to flood the mine, it was only a couple of feet tall and with a certain overcrank speed it fell and the water moved as though the mass were that of it’s full size counterpart.
But alas, I agree to do it in 3D.
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Ah, well if you’re going to output DV anyways, then might as well take the leap sooner rather than later and store them DV. However if you’re going to do any other effects to the video you should keep it uncompressed until the very last stage so you’re not compressing and recompressing DV which is highly lossy in the first place.
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[Aharon Rabinowitz] “- you don’t have nearly the control over a sweepnurbs that you do with MoGraph. “
Not necessarily. If you look at my 3Dstroke plug-in for C4D (see link below), using Xpresso I have complete control over length, tapering on both end, etc. Don’t get me wrong, I have and use the hell out of mograph, but a Sweepnurbs with a little Xpresso can go miles.
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com/CSTools.zip
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I think so. DV is a consumer format for home use and it shows. It destroys the color and detail. So what if the file sizes are bigger? Those Lacie FW800 drives are cheap and when attached to the comp with FW800 you can easily run SD uncompressed and have quite a few hours of uncompressed time on only one drive.
Chris Smith
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