Office Hijinx - After Effects Clone/Cloning

Ok... I was doing some VFX research for a job I was producing and stumbled onto a few interesting tutorials... The first, was a guy named Freddie Wong (check out freddiew & freddiew2 on youtube)... the other was videocopilot.net.

I decided to give myself an After Effects cloning project and actually try some 2D compositing myself.

This project started out as 6 elements (5x clones and 1x flat panel burn in). I started with a sketch of the room. Then (for timing and interaction) I did concurrent timeline storyboards for each character.

Tip 1:
If you leave something in shot - you will pay for it with hours of masking out! PLAN CAREFULLY !!! I left chairs in shot the first time (so re-shot), then I left a cup in the way the second time (look carefully for the cup shaped shadow). Because the interactions (cup, tissue box, eye contact, gun shots etc) were a little complex, i ended up with 29 layers in After Effects!

Tip 2:
Although I didn't try this, I notice that the exposure varied in some shots (this could just have been the fact the sun was rising when i shot it!!!). I would next time turn off any "auto-exposure" settings on the camera (I used a simple AVCHD camcorder).

Tip3:
If you have masks moving around with the the elements like I did, you need to know a couple of things. If half way through, you need more "nodes" you can put them in, BUT don't delete any - it will affect your previously mapped out points. So, plan, plan, plan. The mattes will look much better if you go "frame by frame" - but it is also more time consuming. AE can extrapolate between nodes, but you will have to check that the AE did a good job (and not cut off a hand or foot).

It's not perfect (you can see a lot of mask lines jumping around) but it was only meant to be a bit of fun. I'm a novice when it comes to using AE, so I'm sure there was a hundred things that could have been done after and easier.

Kudos go out to all those 2D and 3D VFX artists - a lot of patience and long hours are required. :)

PS: Someone did ask me "how is this a tutorial?" basically it explains the importance of planing and highlights the problems I encountered. The mechanics of After Effects can be learnt from other tutorials - this is more practical information - any technical questions feel free to ask.

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[eduarsaturno]

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[doctano]

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[skateboard19952006]

how did u do that overmapping

[doctano]

@skateboard19952006 explain your question.

[skateboard19952006]

@doctano is it with a green screen ... not with a split cuz u are moving in front of you ... :)

[doctano]

@skateboard19952006 no green screen. although there are 5 guys (plus the TV burn in) there were 29 separate layers. (have a read of the info attached to the clip). There is a fair bit of complexity to the elements moving backwards and forwards. Also little gags like the "passing the cup" and "passing the tissue box".

The most effective way is to draw a mask around the person's outline. As they are constantly moving, this is also the most time consuming.

[andreswedenn]

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[Maclman1]

the guy in red had WAY to much coffee

[Maclman1]

the guy in red had WAY to much coffe

[eduarsaturno]

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[skateboard19952006]

@doctano is it with a green screen ... not with a split cuz u are moving in front of you