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Topic: A cool effect i just made
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shawnm
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posted 05-29-2000 02:14 AM
Hey guys,
Ive managed to make a cool effect which I am not sure if it has been done before or not.I film a 100% medium closeupof my actors whole body with extra special care to not have the camera move or the actors feet move either. I next make him/her move about in all sortsof directions without moving his feet. I capture that in Premiere, and export 1 or 2 seconds as a targa sequence. I import the targa sequence back into Premiere but when putting them back on the timeline, I put them in a random order. On playback it gives a very cool effect of theactor being able to do a rapid un-natural monsterish movement. Add a bit of motion blur and a nice story to fit it in and some decent lighting and voila. |
Prism
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posted 05-29-2000 02:40 AM
Um, do you mean like stop-motion? I'm still trying to understand how you get your actor to move around with their feet moving...it's magic!Isaiah |
shawnm
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posted 05-29-2000 02:44 AM
No, the actor doesnt move.The result is the actors movment being completely weird
and not natural |
Prism
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posted 05-29-2000 03:04 AM
OH I get it...interesting...!Isaiah |
Noah'z Grafik ark
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posted 05-29-2000 11:17 AM
This sounds like a very cool effect. You should make a tutorial with screen captures and everything to make it more clear. Also please post a link so i can download the video to more clearly see the outcome of the effect, Thank you Noah |
Ivan
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posted 05-29-2000 11:21 AM
seems like Ive seen that in a music video or something.....not for a really long time though... maybe not though. sounds like a very cool effect, might have to give it a try.
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shawnm
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posted 05-29-2000 11:24 AM
No, it would probably look bad for a long time.It looks best for me in semi low light while character is doing a natural walk thens tops and yous see the weird shaking effect i described above for a brief moment and then keeps walking afterwards. I've got other cool things like that i've mucked around with ill post i other posts.
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lyvewyer
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posted 05-29-2000 11:48 AM
you mean like in *shudder* house on haunted hill? that effect was pretty cool.------------------
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shawnm
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posted 05-29-2000 11:53 AM
Not sure where I saw this first but it may have even been Xfiles or some other horror monster flick sort of thing.It hasnt been done much and combined with some ther effects could give a mighty interesting look. |
jeeroome
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posted 05-29-2000 02:08 PM
Hi,
I had posted how to do something similar about a week ago. It was something on how to make view of someone look dizzy. If it is still there, it is a little more precice tutorial.
(I hope this is the effect you are thinking of. if not, sorry). |
mrpher
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posted 05-29-2000 02:28 PM
I'm thinking the rapid punching effects in The Matrix. Eh? ------------------
Chris Penney
http://chrispenney.bizland.com/ |
CrimsonVampire
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posted 05-29-2000 03:13 PM
I'm still not getting it. is there a link that you could post so we could download the clip you made? |
jeeroome
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posted 05-29-2000 03:35 PM
Here is an example of what I was thinking of. It isn't really great but just shows the infinite possibilities  members.xoom.com/jeeroome/matrix.mpg What do you think? |
admiral
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posted 05-29-2000 09:47 PM
Jeerome, that shot is CREEPY! It looks like that actor is all over the place!It reminds me a bit of an effect I used in a recent experimental short. My effect was created by using multiple clips of the same person on top of each other:
http://jove.prohosting.com/~raoul23/head.avi And while you're at it, have you seen my CGI stabbing effect (shameless plug)?
http://jove.prohosting.com/~raoul23/stab.avi |
shawnm
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posted 05-29-2000 10:59 PM
YES YES YES!Like that sort of stuff
you can apply it really creatively
try it with bluescreened stuff
try it with your pet dog make your gandmother cool! |
Prism
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posted 05-30-2000 12:26 AM
Jeeroome, the guy in your clip that's being slugged doesn't seem to mind it very much. Isaiah |
shawnm
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posted 05-30-2000 02:12 AM
To get the second guy to react to the punches and not look like hes a speed freak too you would need to have them shot seperately, the puncher ona bluescreen and the second guy and background together on a seperate shot and then key over.
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Noah'z Grafik ark
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posted 05-30-2000 06:21 PM
If I were to do this with larger movements would it look like something from the matrix? like super fast movement? because the clips that i saw that were posted under this subject just looked like someone screwed up while shooting it. |
shawnm
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posted 05-31-2000 03:50 AM
I mainly use it in a closeup of thehead and shoulders and have the actor moving their head around in all sorts of directions and apply tis effect
looks a lot better. ill post it up in the next couple o days |
Phil the Giant Robot
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posted 05-31-2000 04:20 PM
BLARG! it has been done many times, actually. i was just about to do it in about a day. Watch The X-Files. in the season finale Scully walks into some sort of energy forcefield and flys up in the air and does the blurry wiggly thing. i figure they just had her jump, took a frame, jumped again in a different pose, took a frame ect. then morphed them together really fast. super fly.pTgR ------------------
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shawnm
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posted 06-01-2000 07:36 AM
oh well at least we all know how to do it now :P |
akira
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posted 06-01-2000 09:50 PM
Jacob's Ladder also did this before Matrix and X-Files. The "demons" shook their heads around like that. Now that was creepy. |
