Good old fashioned Imageready and my 4 year old 3 mpxl Kodak,2 movies converted to images, folder as frames into Imageready, then just treated each frame as a 'shop with cut n paste.
I got the timing to match by doing both parts to the same music track and just double timing with my head, so there were 20 frames to the hand and 10 frames to the head, that way I would only have to cut out 10 heads and then repeat them. The comedy 'large chin, small forehead' effect is purely angle of shot BTW.
I joined the head to the hand by putting a dot on my neck (a pendant in fact) and matching it up to a felt-tip dot on my hand.
The arm was removed very simply by taking a still frame from the same vantage point as I took the movie of the fingers, adjusting it to match the background exactly, and setting a small portion of it from above to just at the point where the head covers the wrist.
After that, flatten frames and tweak a few seams here and there.
Simple, but quite a lot of work, hence the 'Took All Day To Do', but it was made much simpler by good prep and choices of backgrounds, and I just wanted to see if it would work the way I thought it would.
Shame optimisation kills the effect a lot as the final movie looks perfect!
*edit* Oop, it got FPed! Well there's all my cool out the window! LOL!
(I got the timing to match by doing both parts to the same music track and just double timing with my head, so there were 20 frames to the hand and 10 frames to the head, that way I would only have to cut out 10 heads and then repeat them. The comedy 'large chin, small forehead' effect is purely angle of shot BTW.
I joined the head to the hand by putting a dot on my neck (a pendant in fact) and matching it up to a felt-tip dot on my hand.
The arm was removed very simply by taking a still frame from the same vantage point as I took the movie of the fingers, adjusting it to match the background exactly, and setting a small portion of it from above to just at the point where the head covers the wrist.
After that, flatten frames and tweak a few seams here and there.
Simple, but quite a lot of work, hence the 'Took All Day To Do', but it was made much simpler by good prep and choices of backgrounds, and I just wanted to see if it would work the way I thought it would.
Shame optimisation kills the effect a lot as the final movie looks perfect!
*edit* Oop, it got FPed! Well there's all my cool out the window! LOL!
..wil,
Tue 9 Oct 2007, 9:14,
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