Watch this masking nightmare

Carnage7p · Post by **Carnage7p** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 6:28 am

i was trying to recreate the nightcrawler effect from X2. Tell me what you think. 600 kb

http://12.22.230.41/MicroTech/Hosted/Files-L/MHO1.zip

U.S.Amateurfilmaker · Post by **U.S.Amateurfilmaker** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 7:03 am

not bad at all

2nd_Recon · Post by **2nd_Recon** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:49 am

Actually, that was pretty good. Add a kick sound, and an "Oof" sound, and you're in business

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:54 am

Looks good must have take a long time to draw all those matte's. Only thing I can see is the reflections in the window show only one person.

Carnage7p · Post by **Carnage7p** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 2:20 pm

yeah the sounds could help a lot. and i think i could mask out the shadow in the window and people wouldn't notice. thanks guys! oh and it did take me a very long time. it was probably around 25 hours of work because it took so many points to surround my body. i used a mask feather of 6 and in some of the smaller masks i used a mask feather of 2. it took about 7 minutes to render that 3 second clip and i've got 2.8 ghz and 2 gb ram.

NaziSentry · Post by **NaziSentry** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 4:27 pm

Nice load of RAM there! That was REALLY good! Use bluescreen for the guy kicking and the guy falling over and it'll be tonnes easier (Use layers). Oh, and have a background plate. Plus sound fx. Go to my website www.freewebs.com/nazisentry/ in the downloads section theres some ripped Matrix sound fx.

Carnage7p · Post by **Carnage7p** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 7:46 pm

no blue screen would have looked much more fake. the reason it looked so great was because all three shots were filmed in the same spot so the lighting on all three shots was the same. with blue screeens if you even get a good enough key then it is hard to get the right coloring for the actor. plus this way allowed me to keep some of the shadows on the ground like when the actor falls. i do not mind spending that many hours doing it as long as it look good.

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:19 pm

Hey, good job. I liked it. Keep up the good work!

Carnage7p · Post by **Carnage7p** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 11:10 pm

yeah i do not really have any plans to put it in a movie but it was more of an experiment, learning experience, and i just wanted some input. so thanks for the compliments.

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 11:53 pm

make that a blue outline or red, the effect red, that would look awesome....still good tho

NaziSentry · Post by **NaziSentry** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 11:56 pm

Just after I posted I thought of the shadows...

Carnage7p · Post by **Carnage7p** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 5:11 am

Truggy wrote:make that a blue outline or red, the effect red, that would look awesome....still good tho

explain more what you mean

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 8:15 am

like that vanish effect, u ever seen xmen 2? Where night-crawler disappears with his teleport power? Its a blue effect. Make yours a red.

Carnage7p · Post by **Carnage7p** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 8:43 am

yeah ive seen x men 2 but why red. his is blue cause he is blue but im not blue or red. it is hard to change the smoke color cause it effects the black that i keyed out. but i'll give it a shot

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 8:58 am

jsut a glowing pure red....that would be sweet...lol if it cant work it cant work, but u should give it a try

NaziSentry · Post by **NaziSentry** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 12:54 pm

Eeeeevil! NightCrawlers nemesis Half-Brother!

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