18 second Zombie Movie

[Atomicz]

hey just board with my friends and wanted to test out cs3 and finalcut.
i did the face warp, gun shot, and (if you look closely you can see blood flying out the actors head), and cloning. the actor is the same person.

my first time every usuing cs3, pretty sick program i might add.

http://www.vimeo.com/772841

NEW ONE OF MYSELF
http://www.vimeo.com/788625

[ddavidd20]

pretty cool premise, you should try and use a muzzle flare for your gunfire, i can see the little flames or whatever, so it kinda took away from the realism a bit for me.

[Atomicz]

yeah, i tried it was hard getting a gun effect that went on for like 10 seconds tho, next time i am going to try that.

[Exomniac]

Unfortunately I don't have any video on the internet to prove it, but I've done alot of post-production muzzle flash work, and I've been very happy with my results. Pop in The Matrix and watch the lobby shootout scene frame-by-frame and look at the muzzle flash very closely. Each round fired from a gun creates a flash that lasts for only a single frame, sometimes with a greatly reduced effect for a second frame. I extract every frame that I want to have a muzzle flash, bring it into Photoshop and draw the flash on a new layer. The flash is almost completely white, but create a colored area first, usually yellow/orange. Use the smudge tool to shape the muzzle flash that matches the direction the weapon is being fired. Then create another layer and draw a white area that you can smudge out to the same shape, only a little smaller so that your flash is white, with a colored border. Mess with the opacity of both layers until it looks like it was there to begin with. Like I said, you must use real reference material to get a realistic looking, proportionately sized muzzle flash. It looks like you really enjoy SFX, so I thought I'd help out.

EDIT: If you post an untouched frame of your movie I can throw a muzzle flash on it.

[spazzblaster]

Cool! Are you talk'en about after effects when you say cs3?

[Exomniac]

EDIT: I must be too NOOB to be able to post pictures, so here are the links.

I took the initiative and grabbed this frame.



After a few minutes I had this.


Don't hesitate to make your flashes huge. I own an AK-47 and it looks like it was a humid day from your footage. I can tell you that muzzle flash is gonna be big.

[Atomicz]

Exomniac-thanks so much, that is sick what you did, really sick. now i got photoshop cs3 on my laptop but not on my mac. so, is there any way to edit in after effects with the smudge etc?

SpazzBlaster-thanks, and yeah adobe after effects cs3. got your pm :d thanks

[Exomniac]

I don't think there is a smudge tool in AE. As far as I know, Photoshop files are cross compatible. So you could draw this stuff up on your laptop, then throw all of your work onto a thumb drive, and import the raw PSD files into After Effects on your Mac. It would take a little time, but as far as I'm concerned, anything worth doing is worth doing right. By the way, I thought the face transformation effect was great. Keep doing what you're doing.

[Atomicz]

thanks.
next time ill def try that

[Atomicz]

hey didnt feel like posting another thread.
new face warp of myself.

http://www.vimeo.com/788625