CombinedBlurTest.mov

Testing Reel Smart Motion Blur in AE - applied to composite image, and to flying creature without a background, before compositing. Settings had to be reduced to avoid parts of the background getting smeared, sometimes a large area for a frame or two. (Look at the arch above, with orange light on it, when the orangish wing goes past - dragged along for one frame.)
Don Carlson applied a free open source motion blur to the composited flying creature as well. Mostly worked, but some odd distortions on a few frames.
Also blurred wings in TV Paint by selecting areas and applying radial blur. This was closer to a real motion blur effect, but labour intensive.
With the swordfight, puppet were in set, so could not isolate puppets from background. RSMB blurred bodies and shield, but sometimes failed to blur thin swords which had moved much further. Possibly it moved so far it didn't register as the same pixels - but that is where you need a motion blur most.
Faults are more obvious when clicking through single frames in QT - it sorta works when playing at full speed in flash.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• stop motion
• motion blur
• animation

[FandSproduction]

Amazing! Do you plan to make a tribute to "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" or something? The creature looks like the one in the movie.

[StopmoNick]

@FandSproduction

The creature was seen on the computer monitor in the 7th Voyage tribute - you're right, while not a direct copy it was intended as a reference to the Golden Voyage Homunculous, since it functioned as the magician's messenger (email deliverer). This flying test was shot to composite into some other film entirely, as a bit of background action behind some trees, but I put it over a still of this set to try out the blurring. Paul Vortex has since done a great blur on it!

[bluworm]

My jaw just made a sizeable mark on my floor!

[stopmojim]

Jeez, this is amazing Nick! Just beautiful.

[castlegardener]

my wife was very impressed with the background animation while the sword fight was going on....

[scareglow77]

It looks great to me. Very cool.  Your work never ceases to amaze the hell out of me. :)

[blobofblue]

woaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[B3RS3RK3R666]

Thanks to share the results you got with your tests.

[boxOmation]

Everything looked great lol

[castlegardener]

incredible work as always Nick...I love the flying puppet....