A funny (I hope) short video with a pesky critter.

[PF-Guy]

I could have done it in Sony Vegas or PS just as well but I did this all in AS.

I am not sure I even do it right but its how I do it.

I'll post a tutorial later tonight on youtube.

Stephen

That would be very appreciated. Thank you.

Kevin

[sbtamu]

Excuse my Texan accent. Parker and selgin speak better English than I do.



Any who here is one way to do this but I am sure there are many other ways to do it also.

IMO using a green screen for the person would save hours of animation time by just filming the live person on a green screen and saving as avi with alpha layer and importing it to AS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqzbz0th6MM

[PF-Guy]

Yes! that is exactly it. I realize that I would have to animate the mask for motion, but that is fine. Did you use the mask in AS or did you cut out the child in an editor and used two image layers? I hope you could tell me how to do the masking in AS. I know how to do a simple mask with vector layers, but not with an image or video layer.


Thanks,

Kevin

I could have done it in Sony Vegas or PS just as well but I did this all in AS.

I am not sure I even do it right but its how I do it.

I'll post a tutorial later tonight on youtube.

Stephen

Thanks Stephen. I was able to get it working, however the effect only is revealed during rendering. You were a big help!

Kevin

[PF-Guy]

Thanks again Stephen. But something puzzles me. Remember in your video when you changed the mask layer from "add to mask, but keep invisible" to "add to mask" to show me how the mask only revealed that portion of the image? Well, the only way I could get it to do that was to put the mask layer under the image layer. In order for me to get the effect of the walk-behind, I for some reason had to do a group "reveal all" and a mask that was selected as "subtract from mask" . For some reason when I tried it the way you showed me it wouldn't work that way. Also, I don't know why the effect is only shown after a render. Well, I guess if whatever I'm doing works, then that's what matters.

Thanks,

Kevin

[sbtamu]

The image/video layer should not be in the group or bone layer. Drag it out and just use it as background as the lowest layer.