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Predator Style Effect Programs Needed: Adobe After Effects 5.5 Production Bundle Equipment Needed: Green Screen Skills Needed: Green Screening in After Effects Description: In this tutorial you will learn how to use a displacement map to simulate an invisible man. You will also learn how to animate an object using the transform filter instead of motion tracking. Download Project and Movie Files |
| STEP ONE:Open foreground and background footage. |
Import background.avi and foreground.avi into your project
Note the length of the clips. In this project the clips are 18 frames long apiece.
Create a new composition and set the duration to 0;00;00;18. Use the
same settings as below.
Click OK.
Drag background.avi into your new
composition, then drag in foreground.avi. Make sure FOREGROUND.AVI is in
layer 1.
| STEP TWO:Create a mask. |
Select the FOREGROUND.AVI layer and create a new mask by going to LAYER> MASK> NEW MASK
Double click on the yellow square circled below. This allows you to resize the mask.
Drage the yellow sqares on each side towards the middle until they meet the edges of the green screen.
| STEP THREE: Key out the green. |
Next, key out the green until it looks like the picture below..
| STEP FOUR:Animate the foreground to match the background. |
Click on the 3D SWITCH for the foreground layer shown below.
Then expand to the transform filter by clicking the little triangle shown below
Expand the TRANSFORM filter by clicking the little triangle to the left of it, and click the stopwatch icon next to POSITION to set a keyframe.
Your timeline should look like this.
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