Tudor "ted" jelescu
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It could work- use this tutorial for displacement tips and techniques using Free Form.
Also, not knowing exactly how your image looks like, it’s hard to give specific advice, but if you have trees with a lot of leafs, you may want to consider Particular to create volumetric foliage.
Another particle system that has foliage presets is Particle Illusion.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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When you render to QT animation 8bit, make sure that “Convert to linear light” is off for 32 bit ( in Output Module Settings/Color Management). This should take care of the problem.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Psunami is a real powerful plugin- for reflections though you will have to fake them- Reflector from Zaxwerks may help:
https://www.zaxwerks.com/reflector/index.shtmlTudor “Ted” Jelescu
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In a professional production studio they would either use their own software or Maya/Max. A whole team of people would model, texture and then animate the virtual double. There may be motion capture involved. You may get away by using Poser.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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There are a few ways, but I am afraid they all involve either extensive production or post production.
1. You can shoot the actor that is blown away by the spell on chroma and have him/her act out being hit by the spell and then jump a bit backwards and drop on some soft shock absorbent surface(pillows, mattress) covered in chroma cloth. Then you can comp in AE, pull the key and enhance the move animating the actor so that it seems that the move is much faster and the jump goes farther back.
2. You can hire a stunt man/crew and shoot the whole scene with the stunt guy being pulled by a chord and then add fx in post for the spell/smoke…
3. Or, you can create a virtual double in 3D, map a custom made texture from photos of the actor on the 3d model, animate in 3d and composite and ad effects in AE.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Are you sure that all your comps and clips are at the same frame rate? Any of them interlaced?
Are you doing the roto straight on the layer or for some reason on an adjustment layer?Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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As there are many tutorials out there and not all of us are following them, it would be beneficial to post a link as well when you refer to a tutorial.
Also, be more specific in what you are trying to achieve, give a better description and examples (still or video).Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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You may be able to use Particular – build a custom sprite w/ your logo.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Link the flare to a light and the light to a path.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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If I understand correctly, you are trying to achieve a super bright light- if that is so, you need to work in 32 bit – adding a glow will help to give that illusion.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist