Nicholas Toth
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Hmmm
Can you build a moving clean plate and pull a difference matte?
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MOTION BLUR
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*Magic bullet as in solution, not as in software. Sorry.
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For all intents and purposes, mocha is a 2d tracker on steroids. It enables you to pull mattes, and do some sweet tracking and pinning. And for its price point? Its very worth it. It also enables per vertex feathering, which AE lacks unless you have a plugin.
Its no magic bullet though, roto work always takes quite a bit of time.
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Sorry to reply again,
I’ve used auto trace when Tracing the alpha of an object.
And when it comes to that project, if you haven’t started it yet, maybe you should green screen it….
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Sounds like a job for Mocha. Or Mocha AE. Silouette I hear is good, but I’ve never used it.
Either way that is a bit of work. How many seconds is it? You may be better off just starting to roto it.
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You can always build a faux depth matte for the backdrop, or use vpe export out of Photoshop. They look somewhat staggeringly real — in contrast to a projection map in a 3d app. Throw in some depth cue and get some real hex highlights instead of the ae 3d cam circular highlights.
There are tons of free resources! Just google it!
I use http://www.sxc.hu a lot.Also, color correction to match the backdrop is important, as is light-wrapping the talent to the backdrop…or is it light-wrapping the backdrop to the talent? Who cares, you catch my drift.
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THE MYSTERY IS THAT YOU MUST CHEAT!!!!
CHEAT! CHEAT! CHEAT!(ok sorry, I got a little carried away)
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Let me re-phrase
That style of animation/look is begging, screaming, pleading, do be done with Form.
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There are presets in the MB Suite may emulate what you’re looking for, mix it with some edge blur/diffusion and maybe some over-grained chromatic aberration… also some carefully applied gradient blurs based on perspective gradients….
Don’t forget too, the beauty of consumer/low end polaroids (which is why I have 5 of them) is that they never develop the same way twice — and they are spontaneous. Take two pictures of the same composition at the same time, at the same place, and they won’t develop the same. Perhaps you want to take this into consideration when creating your preset.