George Goodman
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Gotchya.
One of the fundamental problems here is that you have two separate colored light sources. You have the lamps you used inside which are a tungsten-ish orange and you have the blue daylight mixing from the window. You’re going to have to independently affect those channels. There are a lot of ways of color correcting, so you’re going to want to use whatever is most comfortable to you. Levels, channels, hue/saturation, curves, or even the built in color finesse tool will give you the ability to isolate your blue channel. I would try to pull your blues into a more warm orange to match the color of the girl.
The over exposed window draws too much attention to the wrong part of the frame. There is no information there, so it’ll have to stay white, but you could try a vignette to pull the eye to the center of the frame.
The girl is too saturated and orange. After you’ve made your blues and oranges match well together, you can desaturate the entire image with and adjustment layer, or also shift the oranges to be slightly more blue – or a combination of both.
Your mid tones are a little dark, you could use levels or curves to boost them, but you’ll want to look at your scopes to get it right.
There are all kinds of ways to overcome these various problems, but I’ve highlighted the ones that stick out to me the most.
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George
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If you have one layer that does the fade out the way you want, you can just use it as a reference for all of the other layers opacity. In the example below, I’ve called the layer with the opacity keyframes “Master Layer” – you’ll need to change the name of this to whatever layer has your keyframes. Also, once you’ve put this expression in one of the child layers, right click, and select expression only, then select all the other child layers and hit paste. This way, you don’t have to add this expression to each layers opacity.
thisComp.layer("Master Layer").transform.opacity“|_ (°_0) _|”
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George
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Can you post an image of what you are trying to fix? In this particular case, there are a lot of things to correct, but the biggest problem is that she is lit from below which is causing that nasty nose shadow on her face.
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Not really, but I have a really cool trick that has saved me loads of time on this kind of thing. It requires one or two script installations though. You can use the shape repeater baker to use the repeater and then separate each shape into its own shape in the layer. Now you can individually affect each shape:
https://aescripts.com/shape-repeater-baker/
You could stop there, but I also love to use the explode shape layer script in combination with this. After I bake the repeater, I explode the shape layer to put each shape on a separate layer. It’s a super quick way to get a perfectly repeated shape layer all on separate layers:
https://aescripts.com/explode-shape-layer/
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You can buy a lens wider than 18mm, but beware of image distortion.
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If they are on separate layers in your ai file, you can right click and choose create shapes from vector layer. Then you can wiggle the opacity of each shape inside the shape layer. The way I would go about this would be to manually open the first shape, add the expression it, then right click that shape, copy expression only, then select all of the remaining shapes and paste.
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Theres a lot of different things going on there and certainly a lot of ways to approach it. One way might be to duplicate the layer, shift it over in x space, and then just mask out the blocks as you want. Then just make it a frame or 2 long.
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I’m not sure I understand your question. I do want to reiterate there is a lot of ways to go about this, and the extract filter was really only for a down and dirty quick way to solve your first problem.
If you aren’t using any blend modes in illustrator, you may want to consider right clicking the ai file and choosing create shapes from vector layer. This will give you a layer with all your shapes inside of it. This way, you can isolate each shape and treat it as you wish. Typically, I use the explode shape script after something like this so that each shape is it’s own layer, but if you don’t want to install that script, you can just duplicate the layer for each shape and delete all the extra shapes in each one so that you’re left over with a single shape in each layer.
For what it’s worth, I don’t use illustrator for AE projects. I know a lot of people do, but I just prefer to draw my shapes with the pen tool in the program. The program runs faster, and I find I have a lot more flexibility when it comes to animating.
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There’s like a billion ways to do this, but, since they’re a distinct color, you could use the extract filter or a color key with maybe a matte choker. Or you could just do masks by drawing them in with the pen tool. If the character is animating though, I would probably just use the extract filter so you don’t have to keep redoing your masks.
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Which keyframe is it blank on? The keyframe representing the last frame or the one in which you tell it to start over?
A couple things it could be just off hand:
-Make sure that your keyframe says 1 not 0 when it’s starting over
-Make sure the last and first keyframe have no spaces between them.
-Make sure that you actually have something on the very first and very last frames.“|_ (°_0) _|”
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George
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