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I will surely study mocha, Asap.
Now sadly I don’t have much time and I’m doing my very best to make this shot as good as it should. My first idea was to mask the Shadow itself using a freeze of the first frame of the closed door as background, but somehow the color mismatch.

Masking her is Impossible, she is blurred and her shadow of course isn’t removable my doing so, since feathering create mess. I’m unsure about what you meant by animating the Y in 3D. I thought to copy the texture of the closed door and rotating it in perspective as it was opening but I think it’s sucidial.. Geez.. It’s years that I make this and I feel so abruptly noob.

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I’m starting to believe I misunderstood what you were suggesting me, uff.

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I’m also finding serious problems to mask her. Somehow the Door’s color change during the clip even if in a minimal way, making very clear the mask that, actually, is kinda hard to blur without revealing the trick..

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Another strange problem is that the color space of Avid and A.E. never match, making this extremely complicated. Sadly I still have to understand how to use Mocha and I feel pretty much ignorant there. ;[

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You’re suggesting to use a closed door frame.. Make it 3D and then animate it over the opening/closign of it to hide the girl’s shadow?

Really interesting tip indeed.. Thanks. 😉 I suggested to not make the light flicker to mask it but then I got troubled with the moving door (in the original clip there was a fake fire beside her).. I’ll definitely try what you said and indeed you got the plot, the scary hand does not have to be removed. My only doubt now is that.. Painting if photoshop and then using that frame.. Will it be noticeable once I comp it in 3D over the real one?

Thanks for the idea Steve, I’ll surely update you in the next days.

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Thanks guys, answering to all of you, I’ll now think about your hints and then wait for the Real footage that I’ll have to use, this is why for now what I have to do is quite unclear. I think that using their sphere is a Must, so.. As soon as I have news I’ll come here.

Thanks again. 😉

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Thanks, I’ll try those to learn something new. 🙂
Sadly the Director choose to re-film the footage directly without Green Screen so there’s nothing more to do now, but something else came out and it’s even more difficult, it seems..

I’ll soon have the footage of an animated 3D Sphere (closer to a Soccer ball, I’ve been said) with some reflections in it, that will rotate and move in 3D space.

I’ve been asked to comp over it videos to then finish with one in full screen making it go on, like some News Channels over the world. I still don’t have the footage to work with or that I could show to you all, but I’d really love and I’d be grateful if we could start trying to think about something. A.E. works in 2.5D, and I’m unsure about how to move foward in this project. *mumble*

Here’s the thread: https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/1007392

Thanks for everything, as always.

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Ohw.. Sorry, my fault. It’s not my first language and so I made a mistake. With “Titolation” I meant the initial Credits of the Film: Actors, Director and Title of the Movie.

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Oh, thanks for the tip. 🙂 Once I have clearer infos about the job I’ll do it for sure.

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What do you mean? Maybe it’s something I still didn’t heard about, sorry.

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