Help turn pple into looking like ghosts at DVinfo.net

Joseph Laczkoskie · December 13th, 2009, 08:10 PM

I know it would of been prob way better to use green screen but they didn't so I'm trying to figure out if you can turn the pple in your footage and make em look like ghosts. So if someone have an idea of how to do this in final cut or after effects i'd appreciate it. I know we can mess with the opacity and that will sort of help but im looking to see if there anything we can do.

Joseph Laczkoskie · December 13th, 2009, 11:14 PM

anyone have any suggestions

Boudewijn de Kemp · December 14th, 2009, 03:23 AM

Never done this before, but fiddling around with blur and opacity might get you some way.

Joseph Laczkoskie · December 14th, 2009, 08:17 AM

thanz for your input

James Brill · December 15th, 2009, 06:54 PM

Do an HSL key to grab the skin of the people and apply crazy blurs and highlight effects to the selection. Should work :/

Robert Lane · December 15th, 2009, 09:30 PM

Never attempted something that's VFX related but...

Along with what James suggested try using the "Bloom" filter in FCP and make the ghost color off-white with a blue-ish hue. Light-blue blooming effects along with motion-blurs are always associated with ghosts and spirits.

Jiri Fiala · December 19th, 2009, 04:32 AM

It won't look good unless you put good effort in it, sorry. You will have to do it in After Effects, Combustion or another VFX software, rotoscoping those faces (or you can do a fixed mask and track it to the heads' movement) and applying some glows, blurs and tints, or even some particle effects.

December 13th, 2009, 08:10 PM	#1
Joseph Laczkoskie New Boot Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: York, PA Posts: 7	Help turn pple into looking like ghosts I know it would of been prob way better to use green screen but they didn't so I'm trying to figure out if you can turn the pple in your footage and make em look like ghosts. So if someone have an idea of how to do this in final cut or after effects i'd appreciate it. I know we can mess with the opacity and that will sort of help but im looking to see if there anything we can do.

December 13th, 2009, 11:14 PM	#2
Joseph Laczkoskie New Boot Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: York, PA Posts: 7	anyone have any suggestions

December 14th, 2009, 03:23 AM	#3
Boudewijn de Kemp Regular Crew Join Date: May 2009 Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Posts: 63	Never done this before, but fiddling around with blur and opacity might get you some way.

December 14th, 2009, 08:17 AM	#4
Joseph Laczkoskie New Boot Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: York, PA Posts: 7	thanz for your input

December 15th, 2009, 06:54 PM	#5
James Brill Major Player Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Goleta, CA Posts: 299	Do an HSL key to grab the skin of the people and apply crazy blurs and highlight effects to the selection. Should work :/

December 15th, 2009, 09:30 PM	#6
Robert Lane Go Go Godzilla Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Scottsdale, AZ USA Posts: 2,823 Images: 15	Never attempted something that's VFX related but... Along with what James suggested try using the "Bloom" filter in FCP and make the ghost color off-white with a blue-ish hue. Light-blue blooming effects along with motion-blurs are always associated with ghosts and spirits.

December 19th, 2009, 04:32 AM	#7
Jiri Fiala Major Player Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Brno Czech Republic Posts: 453	It won't look good unless you put good effort in it, sorry. You will have to do it in After Effects, Combustion or another VFX software, rotoscoping those faces (or you can do a fixed mask and track it to the heads' movement) and applying some glows, blurs and tints, or even some particle effects.