Greg Neumayer
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Darby,
Please tell me you did that Captain America poster. That’s such an awesome look. (It helps that I’m listening to the Inception soundtrack). I’d love to see the original raw photo, because a simple composition like that is so much more work than people realize.Antifreeze Design
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Thanks for coming back to post your solution! It’s nice to have complete issues/solutions for searching.
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You could do a search for clip art, or maybe check the Illustrations section of sites like iStockphoto.com, Pond5, Thinkstock, Revostock, etc.
However, I think your bigger problem will be finding everything you need at an affordable price, and not having it look like an artistic garage sale. For the cost of buying various different assets, I’d recommend you look into hiring an illustrator to do some drawings for you. Just like After Effects animators, there are droves of Illustrators and cartoonists out there that could achieve a style similar to that for a very reasonable price (certainly comparable to buying stock elements).
I’m afraid I’m not a good resource to direct you to that talent, but I’m sure someone here may have a favorite illustrator (or site). Many illustrators are familiar with drawing for animation, and keeping elements split up, ready for animation. I think you’d be a lot happier with the results.
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Yeah, the fastest way is to find a quick preset you like.
If you wanted to do it manually (or have a better understanding of what you did to get there) I’d try selectively desaturating specific colors using Hue/Sat. Turn down the greens and blues. Make sure you’re not losing too much of your browns/yellow/red. I’d also add contrast using curves. Notice how the whites are blowing out on the back wall. For a lot of creative flexibility, you can also use Colorama to push specific colors into specific value ranges. Colorama is my “stranded on a desert island with only one effect” effect, but it takes getting used to. Colorama doesn’t initially pop up with any presets that are very useful, so you’ll need to take some time to understand it. It’s useful for things like our old favorite “Matrix” look, where some deep greens were pushed into the near-blacks. Let me know if you want more info about it.
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Can you point us to a specific spot in the timecode?
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You might check the UIPanel “Quick_Fx_Pallette”. I think it’s on aescripts.com. It puts a trim button pallet in your workspace that you can modify (in the code) with the effects you most often use.
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Thanks for your info Nikki. For the most part, I like the VideoBlocks footage. As you guys add content, my hope would be that you abandon some of your older, lower quality clips (and SD footage) that I’ve run into and maybe ease back on the compression. I’d be happy to download a file twice as large for less compression. (Admittedly, I was hoping to knock out the background, which is going to tough with any type of compression.) Maybe there’s a way you could provide some low-compression shots when it’s pretty obvious the shot would be used for compositing: a greenscreen shot, fires, smokes, transitions, etc.
Anyway, I think you guys are on the right track. Sure beats paying $100+ for a single clip on the other sites. Thanks!
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That’s great news, Todd.
Yeah, for some reason it wasn’t pasting. Good to know the problem’s just on my end.@Jason: Thanks for the tip. Roughen doesn’t affect the mask, but could still be useful.
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Are you completely sure your background is not the problem? I got a stock sequence (lockdown) just the other day that was messing with my head because the camera wasn’t stable as the shot started (probably from pushing that little red rec button!)
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Just to add more input for the archives…
Check out Newton (currently v 2) for a full solution for physics in After Effects.Antifreeze Design
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