effects..anyone know how to do them??

[jp575]

hey does anyone know how to do these effects?

1 a guy walking down hall and for a split second he turns into a ghost when lightening lights up the room.



2 are you familiar with those sfx contacts? is it possible to make a close up of an eye look like that for a few seconds. iim trying to have the veins of the eye look kinda like those vampireish eyes for a few seconds. but gradually morph into it so it doessnt look really cheesy.


3 finally have a skull gradually like grow back the flesh kinda like the movie "the mummy" except only a skull partially sticking out of the ground and only for a few second scene.


I am about to get the adobe production studio...would that be the ideal stuff to get? or is there another software that i should buy instead?

thanks

[JackBauerII]

I'd do stop motion animation for the flesh on the skull. Can't really help you with the other two.

[youngfilmmaker]

I am about to get the adobe production studio...would that be the ideal stuff to get? or is there another software that i should buy instead?

Well with adobe production studios is really good. It have everything a Filmmaker wants! I really dont think you need any other software if you are getting the adobe production studios. BUT THATS alot of money! I really dont know about the effects

[aaronv2]

they all seem straightforward... i know how to do them. is that the right answer?

[Bocca]

lol aaronv2,

the first, just use masking and alpha on video layers.

Photoshop the eye if ur not gna get lenses (but considering ur buying the Adobe Suite, £40 odd for lenses isnt that bad)

3D probably or you could stop frame animate it.

[ZombieKrieg2005]

for the skull, id stop frame it, its the technique I am using for a music video i am doing, where the singer goes from dust to fully formed (think hellraiser)

[mforish]

For the fleshy skull thing, you could always start with a fully-formed face and then somehow tear it away - i.e. melt it off with a heat gun, blow it off with a high-pressure air compressor, etc.

Then you could reverse the footage for the "reforming" scene.

[Mr.Anderson]

Thats actually how they did the effect from Hellraiser, looks pretty darn convincing.

[Firestorm]

For 1, lightning is very quick--a couple frames or so. Just export the frames you want to change, Photoshop the frames or edit them in AE if you want to use separate footage.

[jp575]

I forgot about this thread.....thanks for the comments and advice

I do have a question about the eye though. Is the only way to do that rotoscoping frame by frame in photoshop? Or is there a way to track it or soemthing in ae.

thanks[/b]

[wildstorm]

I forgot about this thread.....thanks for the comments and advice

I do have a question about the eye though. Is the only way to do that rotoscoping frame by frame in photoshop? Or is there a way to track it or soemthing in ae.

thanks[/b]

I'd manually track it in AE. Much easier and not hard to do.

[jp575]

ok thanks, I have one more quesiton though. in another scene someone is floating for a few seconds. Is the only way to do this using a greenscreen? and having someone being suspended by a rope or something? Or is there another way?

[jp575]

anyone?

[Clarence]

If you wanted to do it really simply, you could just film the person on a green screen, composite them onto the set and use keyframing to making them float up and down.