Create a blizzard scene out of a summer photo with these bad ass techniques!
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Free Ink Chamber Footage!
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Create an ink and paper effect like in Sherlock Holmes (2009)
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During the weekend, we sat over the question of how to fake a good old flip book effect and ended up with quite an interesting solution. See the results of our stresses and strains:
We thank our reader Eduardo for this suggestion – sending us a video he challenged us to find a way to copy this effect. Hence we put our heads together and came up with a pretty easy-to-use solution. Let us guide you through the single steps of the process. Read the rest of this entry »
I keep seeing people breaking up body parts to move arms, legs and heads of their figures in After Effect. Gosh, save yourselves some time and conjure up the Puppet tool already!
Here is what we are going to be creating – in a fairly short amount of time:
I’m sure everyone working in post has seen his wonderful baby gradient being crushed brutally by the codec he’s chosen. End that reign of terror now. Read the rest of this entry »
Cracks and chasms don’t just fade, they drill right into the surface with brute force:
Grab an image with a chasm from a royalty-free page like sxc.hu or stockvault. In Photoshop, duplicate the background and remove the chasm, using the Clone Stamp Tool (S) in conjunction with the Patch Tool (J). This will be our clean plate. Read the rest of this entry »
This is a convenient little trick to pull off a time-lapsed crowd simulation for previz in just a couple of minutes — see for yourself:
“Ink and Paper” is how we named the style we saw in the end credit work of Sherlock Holmes by Danny Yount from Prologue Films. Here is the result of our attempt to compile different techniques into this unique look:
a collection of all our creations and experiments
