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Why am I always saying this…
You don’t need AE for this type of effect.The best ever shot of something stabbing through someone is in “Aliens” when Bishop gets stabbed by the queen’s tail. It’s a practical effect, no animation at all.
Arrow – stick it to the principle’s head and “shoot in reverse”, cut to back of head and pull a foam arrowhead and shaft out of wig with blood quib. (use your sicko imagination for details)
Pitchfork – run with a fake (for safety) pitch fork toward victim, cut to shot of back and show protrusions. Use the foam “aliens” trick or a dummy back with suibbed pitchfork. If that doesn’t make sense, think saltdough, fake blood, and aggressive stabbing motion… this will only work if your character has her shirt on. (If not, we all knew she was going to die in the movie anyhow)
Chainsaw – was there a chainsaw question?
They did crazy movies like this without digital effects long before I was born. I take that into account whenever storyboarding for a shoot.
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unsharp mask… It’ll clean up a bit of the blur.
Or (if you have time) export the clip as a jpg sequence and use a script in illustrator to live trace the lot of them, then import them back into ae as an image sequence. (if it’s black on white, etc… add a deletion of that color into your live trace script recording and save as png, psd, tif, etc… that supports alhpa)
Look for posts in here on cartooning footage, it can be applied to your questions.
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I can’t remember if ‘wiggle’ was available in 5.5, but you can always keyframe the jitter from each explosion and add a motion blur to the clip . I’m a huge fan of the AK tutorials and they just happen to have a mention of keyframing shake like this…
https://www.videocopilot.net/videotutorials/camerashake/index.html
Though I’m pretty sure he uses wiggle, the same rules for blur and stuff hold true for keyframing specific motion. -
Trapcode stroke isn’t technically a AE 3d effect, however if you put a 2d gradient in a layer above your stroke and changed the mode to “add” or “multiply” or the like, you make be able to create the shading dropoff necessary. You make also be able to use a gausian blur effect like in andrew’s tutorial about depth of field to help you sell the effect… https://www.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/dof/depthoffield.htm
If your lines are white you could precompose the whole thing onto another layer with “screen” or something to make all the effects work within your final comp…
I hope that made sense.
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steve’s right. i used to have to do this all the time for funerals. scan at the max of your scanner; needless to say, you need a backlit source for negatives or slides. (9600) or higher gives you leeway.
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if you’re not opposed to shooting some in house stuff, there are some fabulous tricks possible with a pan/tub of water, compressed air hose and over-cranking. It’ll be something you can use for ions to come. comping practicles never loses its impact.
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it may be too late for this, but keep in mind that lighting for news anchors is really bright even at night; so you may want to duplicate the layer and mask out all but your actor. This will give you the freedom to color/level correct him separately from the background elements. Keeping a shallow depth of field for your camera during shooting will help maintain the illusion and give your transition a softer, less jarring effect. If you need more emphasis on the rain, shoot a similarly angled rain over black plate later and use high intensity lights to get focus on the rain, then comp it in on top additive; or use a particle generator.
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I don’t know…
um, I want to be able to do specific arcs, curves, etc. tracks in 3d similar to the film dolly/track setup concept. Having the positions expression controlled gives me the freedom to create the paths before hand in illustrator and import them for specific presets of camera motion; in essence, creating a true virtual set. I might be able to control a null on the “slider path” and parent the camera position to it, I suppose… Any thoughts? I go back to work tomorrow. -
It’s not that… Windows XP puts a cap on usable ram. My desktop has 4gigs of Ram, but XP only saw it as 2, too.
Vista corrects this by putting the cap somewhere around 99Gigs of ram. It’s an old problem stemming from Microsoft’s planned obsolescence. -