"Dodge This" - Visual Effects Breakdown

[DIEGOFREIRE2014]

que programa utilizas para hacer esos efectos?

[Scarperguy]

You used GREENSCREEN for this? Poor, unnecessary.

[LightningTiger100]

that looks really creepy.

[thekcor]

Needs more motion blur.

[fcfilms2]

Check out the video above.

[Fyuesiy]

In the matrix there wasnt a shadow tho haha

[Bubistw]

If you're gone dodge thouse bullets THAT slow I think instead of dodging 1 bullet you will get shoted by 1 bullet five time's in the row.

[Robyversal]

cool job, man! Keep on going

[spiro9210]

You actually didn't need a green screen since camera is stationary. Any movements will only be registered as the foreground.

[SuperLifestream]

@spiro9210 You add the green screen if you wantto change the back ground to another place

[MrIsmailbenhadi]

nice trick man can you please show us how you did the effect in after affects

[nazafi]

@MrIsmailbenhadi Use Echo effect on after effects. and increase the number of echos on the effect, may be around 20 f u want smooth tail. then using the decay fade the tail. and composite back :) all done

[MrIsmailbenhadi]

@nazafi i realy apperciat that man thank you man :)

[creativeGaffa]

I think to get way more out of the effect, you should attach strings to the lower part of the body making it stable. You'll notice the Agents never move their legs but only the torso and arms.

[rolandolujan]

Bet he can't dodge my Cum-Shot

[moviemowdown]

What about Weskers dodge ability?

[splitinimage33]

well douches thats the basic idea of how to do it, all you need now is a camera to run alongside of you, take four camera takes of you running and dodging and shooting a guy, put it together with this idea and WHAM an awesome piece of footage

[Bluedream1975]

dont need green screen to do this !!

[Hdfufd1]

@Bluedream1975 YES you do! how would you cut out the background? frame-by-frame?

[Bluedream1975]

@Hdfufd1

why do u need to cut a still background ? I did it and without green screen

[Hdfufd1]

@Bluedream1975 how would you do the offset layers then?

[Bluedream1975]

@Hdfufd1

Sorry, Im not american so I dont understand this terminology "offset layer".

Anyway I made a similar video using more layers, maybe about 5 layers... the first empty ( without person ) and the others with the moving person.

[LokiKeanu]

@Bluedream1975 offset layers is not american terminology its general, jsut means the charecters were not just one behind the other, the position was varied

[Alsirrom100]

what program did you use

[CLEIII]

damn ..now thats bad ass great video show me more show me more

[alrondsmith]

why the hell you need a gren screen???

[EricTheRed03]

Please make a short scene with this footage!!! Would be so sick

[Bosco827]

how do you offset layers?

[Matty09Magic]

@Bosco827 you duplicate or copy the same layer several times and put each one a frame or two later to show the object or person with himself delayed behind him

[VegaOmega23]

pretty smexxy

[ZombieGamer5k]

SOO, HOW FAST CAN THAT GUY DANCE?

[mblak0830]

How do you do the offset video layers?!!!!!!! Somebody please help!!!

[Matty09Magic]

@mblak0830 to do offset you just paste several of the same layer and put each layer a frame or two later so it has a delay on each layer

[DTPPB]

31 people couldnt create the ''dodge this'' effect

[MundoDaDublagem]

show, muito bom mesmo'

[JuanBernardo29]

try to fix those shadows and add some fake reflections on the floor, actor doesn´t seem to be part of the final compo; then do some color grading, I cannot see a single wrinkle on that suit. Then try to refine that effect, add some "motion blur", animate opacity and so on.

[artifushion]

Great work.. Looks good!

[themorningperson]

dont you think the shadow needs to be lighter?

[matejmuzatko]

how to do this

offset effect?

[V4vinzz]

lol he was lagging during 0:18 - 0:21

[InUyAsHaGlitchCity]

hooray for greenscreens!

[DrDimk0o]

thats not it! you need to come back into a single person which is not that simple i guess. try that

[music2012]

@DrDimk0o He just has to end standing up in all takes and change opacity to 0 on extra layers when they meet up and just the main guy stays.

[TS0AF]

Really good job! love it!

[ac1dman]

Why couldn't you just shoot it all in the hallway to begin with? The shadows under the feet look terrible.

[JarodRussell]

@ac1dman Agreed. The green screen isn't even necessary for this.

[ribenawrath]

@prammaven green. But technically any colour can be used as a 'green screen'. The idea is to have the colours be the most opposite as possible. The thing that influences the keying of screen is the light more so then colour.

[CaptainAshSpearow]

Green tends to work better than blue on chroma key these days, since the frequency range of light is wider than blue and easier to separate from a shot. Plus, there seems to be an upswing in blue clothes these days, so green would keep them in the shot without "blending in."

[RLfilmz]

@prammaven depending on the blue u could still use green. if not yellow would work. basically u just want to go with the opposite color temp from what ur shooting. green and blue are just common

[3456thedavid]

well a c4

[SeRgA123456789]

ugh what is a machine gun wich got 6 or 8 barrels, spinning when shoot .... i thing u know what machine gun is that.... well simple take is and blow hem in to peaces.....

[FlyingReaper997]

wtf i will take 50.cal machine gun and i will see wut happend w/ u O_O

[KillerDrummer88]

well done,,, pity he's a piece of wood loooool

[lgx22]

wow..

[XxlacartadejockerxX]

whit adobe after effetcs, no?

[longdozenify]

You might be notice the same visual effect at the spokes of a spinning bike wheel, it is a fast motion, but not incredible. By the way, if the Neo had shot perfect simultaneous with the guns he would took out the agent. 

[TheAffordableKilla]

ill shoot yo foot and youll go down ;)

[Kuddable]

I got a question what happens when you have a green tat on your arm lol ?

[OmegaGamer04]

@Kuddable It can effect the effect. Weather reporters can't wear the same color clothing as the screen because the image would be visible on the piece of clothing that has the same color as the screen

[asterix645]

@Kuddable It'll disappear. And take your arm with it

[intriguedgorilla]

shadow is unconvincing

[Lordofcookiejars]

@intriguedgorilla I guess that's why they didn't show the shadow in the Matrix clip, haha :P

[hunterfly70]

o so that is how wesker does it.

[zacfwb33]

cooool

[nathanmobile1]

I'll just walk right up to you when your doging and steal the girls line: "Dodge this!"

[danielodors]

The green screen seemed unnecessary, as I noticed no background replacement (looks like it's the same hallway in both shots). The shadow from the green screen footage could have been used as a reference to create a more accurate shadow under the agent. Then again, maybe you didn't have Photoshop or whatever at the time to create it well. Maybe you didn't care since that was not the focus of the video. IDK, just saying

[matrix12389]

please add the tutorial

[nfguler]

really cool but his shadow sucks

[ice7227]

neo!!!

[pivotlordOMG]

Cmon Shot him in the foot!!!!1!

[invisiblem9ia]

plzz make tut and snd me

[AbijahGupta]

Thats exactly what the agent did in the Matrix.. :)

Good video!

[MikeSquiresTV]

you really dont need a green for this. have your camera mounted on a tripod, make sure it doesnt move at all. and then when you get all your clips of your actor moving, but the opacity down on the clips and layer them.

[Fidd91]

You didnt really need a greenscreen for that.. depending on the camera right?

[shigalbigal]

@Fidd91 well you dont need a greenscreen, he used it so he could make the background look like hes in a hospital or something

[YingNog]

Lol he leans back you idiot :L

[Axxidous]

lol if anyone says they'll shoot the foot or leg... they forget this is the person DODGING bullets! They're moving to get out of the way of the bullets! If the bullet came towards the foot... the feet would move too! XD

[DestinyHeroFlamer]

thus proving the fact that the matrix is the best science fiction film ever made

[Vertman3000]

I'd go for the legs

[MrGideonpaul]

@Vertman3000 dont forget....they can fly too!!!!

[Vertman3000]

@MrGideonpaul

D: ill just try really hard to get them then

[Rason95]

@MrGideonpaul then i take a minigun and simply kill him

[MrGideonpaul]

@Rason95 trinity will screw you...lolzzz

[Rason95]

@MrGideonpaul then i am gonna kill her with a Lesser Beam XD

[franoosh]

Nice!!! Inspiring!

[SliferNorth]

nice!

[dedwarmo]

Dang, dude. 130,000 views! That's awesome. I remember you when.

[saveme2000]

shoot him on the balls and ur dead

[OliRancidTen]

or! just shoot the stomach area, he only moves around that area, he doesnt clear it...

[spartan11111118]

*shoots at foot*

*agent starts breakdancing*

[MacknDemon]

cool

[BiologicallySuper]

Could have sped it up... *shoots his foot*

[XxBorderlandsXD]

his foot wasnt movin go for the kill

[gazzza92]

you could haev done that without the green screen

[tyguywow]

yeah you dont even need the green screen though. just layer all the clips on top of eachother and change the opacity

[kameldine]

nice job

[PELEPELE1978]

nice nice :D

[Rudde47]

Where do I buy a greenscreen like that?

[porkandbeans1991]

car keys, cellular phone; love is all i claim....

[marcosbrazilian]

dont be stupid, if u shoot his foot the foot would move away from the bullet, the thing is that he's supposed to know where the bullet goes, so he isnt moving his leg of foot bc he doesnt need to.

[LilScarface609]

ill just shoot ur foot lmao

[swimmer4ever200687]

@LilScarface609

hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay , i dont know why people keep pointing to the head while the foot is as it is

[CDK281290]

LMAO!!!

[Jazza159]

@LilScarface609 hahahah ROFL

[HiMeep]

@LilScarface609 LMFAO!!

[stukabomber44]

@LilScarface609 HAAHA thats exactly what I thought when watching the movie, I'm thinking, Neo you dumbass... leg shotS!!!

[SirWanHimself]

@LilScarface609 LMAO that was briillantly funny because i never thought about even in the movies he does that but his feet dont move

[SamraiAvfc]

@LilScarface609

Haha jokes!

[AussieRoadTripper]

@LilScarface609 if you were going to kill him why wouldnt you shoot him in the head? they showed you in the video they used green screen

[LilScarface609]

@AussieRoadTripper so he can fall on the floor. then ill finish him off there. duhh.

[markofofo]

smart

[tchlubna]

cheche not bad

[metalliholic]

Wow nice

[youallsuck1000]

at first, i thought he would be dodging bullets and lasers but then...

[Eslamm94]

it is so easy to make now Thanks

i have one question how to offset layers in after effect :D

[zenjej24]

nice!

[01boycda]

Why did you need a green screen full stop. Surely just filming him in the still position and then moving around on the spot, Using post software you'd be able to create the same effect, only you wont need to key out the green. Maybe use a greenscreen if he was "dodging this" on a building, but not in a random corridor.

[Z0mbieKangar00]

now i dont want to spend the time (eta 5mins) to figure this out, but i dont think that would work because the hallway would then block out his head(even if at a lower opacity)

[JayGOMH]

because when you layer the other 3 videos of him standing in the hallway, the hallway would be visible on top of the lower layers. it wouldn't look as clean.

[spikesofgrace]

yyyyeah that's not how they did that effect. it's much easier a different way.

[philbertmill2]

brilliant

[xtskistarx]

it's awesome, perfectly combined but the basic moves could be just a tiny bit better, if you went lower and if you'd lean back aswell. also, the agents move slower when reaching the lowest point of th dodge-move. but really, that's a great video, 5*

[JuanBernardo29]

@xtskistarx

sorry guy, but it's not perfectly combined!!, actor's shadows are completely different to real set ones, there's no reflection of the actor on the floor while we can see everything else is reflecting, color grading doesn't match, the effect is too hard. Human eye is used to all this in everyday's low budget advertisment , nothing to say about highend VFX

[RisingDampChamp]

Agents are ALMOST as fast as me!

[howtobe10]

speed it upp a little

[pivotedsticks1]

so what technology would I need for offsets and 4 frames in 1?

[ElxChristiiian]

yo quiero aser eso x333333

[anxs220]

nice job

[gatxx]

freakin' nice! how do u do that??

[KRAZYCorps]

fantastic! Now I know what to do!

[veter159]

very nice

[aguirreruru]

why do they need green screen... instead of other screen like... red, white, black etc....

[WifflePig]

because green is the furthest colour away from human skin tones

[abadeizer]

@WifflePig Cyan-Blue is actually the farthest color from the "standard" skin tone. For yellow or brown colors, it is blue. The best reasons for green-screen are:

-one: it is very uncommon in most situations.

-two: it is a powerful color, especially for video cameras, while blue is stronger in film.

[kiren77]

@WifflePig i'm a martian what do i do?

[WifflePig]

@kiren77 paint yourself

[shinWangXiao]

@WifflePig um, that's not totally the case...

For human skin tones, blue is more appropriate. Any blue spill will be corrected by adding yellow to the subject you want to key. Green spill will be corrected with magenta. A magenta halo around your subject may be equally offensive as a blue one, whereas a yellow one will be much less noticeable. Of course, one should always light to minimize spill in the first place...

[gamerxtremo]

@WifflePig and blue.

[KyleAB5000]

@WifflePig

that and blue :)

[dreamdemon99]

@WifflePig and blue

[Berniebud]

@WifflePig

I think blue is actually farther away from human skin tones cause green is closer to yellow then blue and yellow is very close to human skin tones

[Pestilence86]

@WifflePig If you take skin color as an orange/red with low saturation and high brightness, than a medium deep, low saturated, sky blue would be the most opposite color ;)

[ribenawrath]

@WifflePig technically no it's not. It's Blue, which is why it was used in the old days. But now we use digital video, and green retains the most colour information, and blue is the worst.

[marlo1204]

because green is the farthest colour away from skin.

[GANGSTAMONSTA4LIFE]

because green and blue have less in common with the skin tone of the humans red is close to say pink ect

[Splaffy1313]

very nice (*****)

[darthblast]

NICE!!

[ProtoGenocid]

epic

[astraton]

Nice work.

Check out Killdroid Attack for a green screen action sequence.

[quaxswed]

lame shadow

[StudioVoxel]

Cool, man. Why the green screen though? Maybe use a pre-taken clean plate?

[Z0mbieKangar00]

cuz then u would have to mask out all the movements of the other plates

[StudioVoxel]

Use a Difference Matte instead.

[tarrizzzzzzzzz]

yeah, like thats gonna work... i mean, if you got just a bit grain on your footage, its not gonna work :/

[StudioVoxel]

Then de-grain it =D

[slash112solo]

wow nice

[alexanderhakansson]

very nice! tho you should have speeded the doding up a little to make it go fast also :-)

[VideoManServices]

Now that's some cool talent

[hosiahkicksass]

Very nice!

[ossyni]

The trick does not require a green screen recording!

[DEADprdctns]

You're right. It doesn't requires a green screen.

You can just make the video layers to be in screen mode. easier! :D

[ameba2k]

it does a bit, if you screen the layers together the background would get brighter the more layers you put over it. With Green screening you can select just the character without disturbing the background.

wish i had a green screen

[horizonflyer9]

nice trick!

[logikai]

vry nice done the effect

to bad the dodging isn't that extreme

[WickedWeb]

Really nice.. I've always been a fan of that effect in the Matrix. It would be cool to see it used outside the Matrix concept worked into something original. Very nice work. Cant wait till I learn how to do stuff like that.

[brutal3434]

very nice and very clever. what program did you use for the green screen editing?

[screenmagic13]

good! And I like your green screen, but you did not need it for this shot because of the static frame

[kingdom2505]

COOOOL! :D

[Animator40]

thats really clever!! nice work!!

[shirosaki97]

genious

[nickhansbauer]

wow! haha! that's cool!