Milesl2@mac.com
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They used a motion control camera. One pass with operator control to follow the skaters. A 2nd pass with the movement data from the first pass gives them a clean pass to comp with. Easy as pie for post.
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ssontech.com
has a few books listed, as well as great tutorials for use with the program demo. -
Sean,
what are the clone stamp settings that you’re working with?
brush shape, opacity, flow, mode, channels, duration?
email me a screen grab of your clone stamp window if you can.
still working on PH?
Miles -
Yes and yes,
Using bevel alpha (under Perspective in effects) you can give the appearance of extrusion.
Also, try adding a drop shadow and adjust the settings to give a 50’s movie style extruded effect as well. For more realistic (and expensive) effects, there are likely some plug-ins you could buy.
You can import illustrator projects into AE, just make sure that each element you want to animate is on a seperate layer (in AI) from each other.
Miles -
Are you needing a 3d solution or just the xy coordinates?
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Here’s another one that adds a slight “film look”. Apply Hue Saturation to an adjustment layer at the top of the comp and desaturate. Apply curves and adjust the individual R, G, and B to make the straight line look like a jagged line (maybe 8 or so points each?). Apply another Hue/Saturation underneath the curve effect and adjust saturation back up. Go back to your adjusted curves and fix to your taste (ie more green, less red, etc) Add salt and serve.
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Just wanted to fill in some of the details I left out. The black solid would likely need to be pre composed in a comp with the background color (or a layer placed below) set as white to give you a proper matte layer. Hope that helps.
ML -
This might be a bit more complex than needed, but you could place your current mask on a black or white solid and use this as a track matte for the footage the mask is on now (feathering and expansion will still work as needed). If you need to shift five pixels up, just simply move the layer with the mask on it up and it won’t move the footage as Steve’s suggestion would.