Special FX Demo: Horror Transition

Welcome to my first special effects demo.

My goal was to create a transition between my normal bathroom, which you see here and a "scary" version of it that which appeared to be dripping down the walls.

First I used Corel Painter x to map textures to the walls of the bathroom; add a slight blur and give a grain to the overall picture.

Then I wrote a short computer program to create the drip matte video. Note the two regions are in true green and true blue. This will be used later for chroma keying.

I then mapped that video to 3D objects that matched the angle of the bathroom walls in WAX 2.0. The original video was 720 x 480 so when its stretch to fit the perspective of the walls there quite a bit of pixelation. Ill have to fix that on my next try.

Next, I composited this matte with the scary image of the room and chromakeyed out the wall, keeping only the drips.

Finally, I took the resulting video and composited it with the image of the normal bathroom and chroma keyed out the blue. I also added a fade transition to smoothing things out a bit and I used the rotomate tool to mask out the mirror so that the drip effect would not run over that.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• WAX
• 2.0
• Special
• Effects
• Horror
• Demo

[ScrewtapeStudios]

Ha, ha. I did make a video like that... but it used an image from the Excorsist and I didn't to worry about any copyright issues. Youtube can be so touchy.

[ScrewtapeStudios]

Aliright I'm hoping to get Sony Vegas for father's day. That will let me feather the chroma key. I also plan on adding a bump map to give the drips some depth.

[ScrewtapeStudios]

@ScrewtapeStudios Thanks. I can't wait till I have enough free money to buy Sony Vegas or a similar program. Right now Im using all freeware and stuff I program myself. And it takes for ever to get all the different progams working with eachother.

[haxfactory]

@ScrewtapeStudios would feathering the chroma key fix the aliasing? if you could fix the aliasing, add some depth and put more visible grain on the image (i'm not seeing too much and at first i just thought it was artifacts from YouTube) i would say this could look like this clip was cut right out of Silent Hill. Very impressed with the custom plugin though. what language and how hard was it to code? i started out in film and moved into software engineering so that seems very interesting to me.

[BecauseAlexWasBored]

I was so scared that something was going to pop up! lol cool effect :)

[HandsOfSin]

Thumbs up!!!!

[stonedcommander]

Real cool...love that effect.