Nicholas Toth
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man I should have thought of that….
particular seems to be the answer to everything now-a-days.
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HOLY POTATOES!
That tutorial clarifies how to use the reshape effect. It does a GREAT JOB.
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effect — distort — cc power pin
I usually break down composites on stills into 3 areas — foreground — middleground — and background — and try to keep the shadows the same between each individual area.
You generally want to take a few photographs too, with a dummy in the scene to pick out the shadows — ie a post jammed into the ground — or something to generatae a reference shadow. Overcast days can be tough.
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Animate the character — then precomp it.
Duplicate the layer, and on the lower layer add a drop shadow. Click the box SHADOW ONLY.
Add some linear wipe (transition) to feather the top off
then corner pin it to fit the plane.I’m picturing the “animated illustrator characters composited on photographs animations…”
Nicholas Toth
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Thanks — solved the problem!
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great for simulation and random number generation — GREAT explanations of everything. This site really helped me.
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great for simulation and random number generation — GREAT explanations of everything. This site really helped me.
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I’m working on 5 minute episodes that are all composited in that similar fashion. It takes a while to animate all of it, and even longer to render, but yes it is achieveable. In my mind the most notable part of the video is the camera work — the AFX camera is just a pain in the ass. They did a great job with that.
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can you pre-comp and output individual full res proxies for each rotoshape?
Output the 26 individually with alpha channels — then comp them all together — then set it to an alpha matte?
It might take a little while, and it’ll be semi-unalterable, but you can always paint more shape…. -
There was a sheep morph tutorial here somewhere. Search tutorials.