It was pretty simple. I grabbed the footage. Then I used this keylight tutorial found here .
From there his hand was a little cropped b/c it went out of the shot. So I trimmed the workspace to a square I cut out around him. From there I just threw a glow on.
This was a relatively painless procedure once you found the right walk thru online.
For this project I started out with my main body text "dorm antenna cable"
I set the background color and the font color and adjusted the kerning. Once I knew what I wanted the text to look like at the end, I animated per character and changed the scale and opacity. I also threw a blur on there as well. Then I turned on the ease to make it a nice fluid bump that runs through the text as it appears.
The superman text numbers:
I found a little tutorial that showed me how to change some of the specific settings on the echo filter. This achieves the text stretch. I turned on motion blur to help this as well.
To find out how to do this effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKmMHFsIxQc
Then at the end I put a camera on a null to dolly into the moving text.
This will be used as a closing slide for some TSTV commercials next spring.
So you love the shining and you love After Effects 3D. Whatever will you do to combine the two:
First:
I grabbed a pic of the Grady Twins and masked out the ugly crappy hotel hall from the movie.
I grabbed another hotel hallway and created a vanishing point in Photoshop to make it 3D.
Pull both of those badboys into after effects. I started out with my lights. I made an ambient navy light that would flash on an off still leaving some deep blue shadows. Then I placed a spot light at the light fixture in the picture. Made it point down and out towards the camera. I put a camera in there and dollied it forward while playing with the orientation to make the hallway rotate a little bit. I also added a bit of wiggle to give it a slight handheld effect with a magnitude of 6. From there I just added the Grady twins in and leashed them to the camera. I set some opacity key frames to make them ghost like and there you have it.
This looks great, and was very simple. I framed the shot the way I wanted and left the camera running. Shot myself and captured.
Then in after effects I just opened up the mask settings in my timeline. Split the footage with shift, command, D and lined them up in the timeline. Then I just used the pen tool to cut myself out (the sitting me) and there you have it.
