Nate Vander plas
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COW Coins
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That depends on a number of things, like does the actor turn his head and how close he gets to the camera. Depending on the situation, I think I would probably create a wound with make-up or whatever, photograph it, then cut it out in Photoshop (or AE) and use motion tracking to keep it on the face.
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I’m surprised no one mentioned the stroke or write-on effects. With these you simply make a motion path (with the pen tool that normally makes masks) along the route you want and then it pretty much does the rest for you. Check out Aharon’s tutorials on animating a signature.
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You could try using a page turn transition and then masking that so that it looks like only half of the video is being turned/ripped off. I don’t know exactly how that would look, but you could try.
About getting your video to react to the music, Sound Keys is a plugin that does that for you. Otherwise you may have to keyframe it by hand. -
Good point! It does sound quite a bit like a tractor! Thanks everyone for the input. When the project is complete I will hopefully remember to post a link to it on here somewhere.
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It might be helpful to find an example of what you are thinking and post a link to it so we know exactly what you mean. I think you might be dealing with 3D applications here, especially if you actually go “inside” the ketchup bottle. The tomatoes might be video placed strategically in 3D space in AE, probably green screened. Like I said, it’s hard to help you without dealing with a specific example.
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Yeah, that would be great if we had a budget for that kind of thing! Unfortunately since we are poor students doing this for free (actually, we’re paying to make this film) that isn’t really an option. I’d also be surprised if there was such a stable in Michigan, which is where we are. That is good to know though if I ever need a horse when I’m working with a bigger budget.
Question: do you (and by “you” I mean “anybody”) think a generator would completely freak a horse out? We want to use a cherry-picker (a crane-like thing they use for fixing telephone wires and the like) to get some cool sweeping crane shots and it requires a generator to be running. It is fairly loud, but a pretty constant sound that I thought maybe the horse would get used to over a short period of time. We don’t plan on using it very close to the horse, but still, it could be a problem I think. -
Thanks for the input. We are actually planning on using a telephoto lens for at least some of our work. The barney is a good idea, but we don’t really have one, so we might have to use a coat or something. More suggestions are welcome!
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How big are the photos you’re are “building” with? If they are small enough, you could combine a couple Particle Playground cannons with pictures as particles and then use card dance to fake like those particles are actually landing perfectly on the flat surface (mask the particles so they don’t go beyond the walls).
If that doesn’t work, you could create a large file in Photoshop with a grid of photos and use that as a layer to build your building. Then when you have that where you want it, you can mask off each photo (create several duplicate layers). Create a keyframe for each layer in the position it’s in, then move it down in time and then move it to where you want it to start and add rotation, etc. That way you at least won’t have to position each picture exactly in line with the others- they will already be perfect. It might still be a bit tedious, though. Hope this helps,
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I think the liquify tool might be your best bet if you want to create facial expressions and such. Aharon has a tut about that tool, called “horror text.” I think he uses liquify in part II. Here’s a link to a stupid little animation I did a while ago using liquify:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TsJMpmqMXQ
Hopefully that gives you some ideas about the possibilities.
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Is that all you needed to know? If you need more help just ask.
Nate