Jim Kanter
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The typographic term for these shapes is “ornaments.”
As Tim wrote, many fonts (‘bat and ‘ding fonts in particular)include ornamental shapes.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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The color shift is due to the color of the light that is being recorded. Indoor lights (for example, incandescent bulbs in table lamps)have a yellow light. Our brains compensate for this automatically, but film and CCDs do not.
Fluorescent light usually photographs green, and daylight photographs blue.
You can apply color shifts with HSV filters, adjustment layers, curves, levels, etc.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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There is a filter called “Threshold” which looks at the brightness of a pixel and makes it either black or white. If the girls and dog(s) are darker than the pool background then the Threshold filter can quickly turn them into black silhouettes.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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Could be a corrupted font (since you’re doing text).
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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When you don’t have 3-D compositing space then using scale (and possibly position) animation can create the sense of movement towards or away from the viewer.
To have an object appear to some through another consider revealing it with an animated mask cmobined with some perspective distortion (corner pinning).
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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Solid circles or outlines?
Do they continue to grow in size or do they stop at a certain diameter?
Does the text grow with the circle?
Does the text distort at all within the circle?
Animation can be easy or hard, depending on what you want to achieve, your level of knowledge, having the right tools, and, most importantly, being able to break it down into simple discrete animations that combine into complex ones.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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Motion can be used for film if you have the right hardware. It has float color and is capable of 4K resolution with high-end hardware, but Shake is preferable for film-res images.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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Also check your bit depth settings. 8-bit moves better than 16-bit. Float can be R-E-A-L-L-Y S-L-O-W.
Any other programs running simultaneously?
Hooked into a network?
All these things can slow down Motion as well as external video display and things like particles and replicators.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
http://www.dfilminst.com