Return-Path: Received: from mail-gx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4563332 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:01:56 +0100 Received: by ggni2 with SMTP id i2so954614ggn.28 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:07:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=8hKYi00efamgVoVYWA4OGO5DKjpRA/VGJdhHQ5eQIUw=; b=SggbRDn0bmA8Zj0ixq7e/nswDGyKcgDNx7dBWtrbSkz9+GJjgvUePaC+1aC2vrWgX1 ra4ZKezGFlN+4lWrNIxiwmvoXKVcB4ie3r9S0YyJwSi5VkbaM2thc2YlMqVf4ZmH4aZn FK9HpGODZJq9hZPjslCJ6BWKgMtPMZ/X3NOLs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.218.100 with SMTP id pf4mr6591761obc.12.1323882477224; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:07:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.55.198 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:07:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:07:57 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [AE] Distorting Moving Footage From: Nathan Shipley To: After Effects Mail List Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d0444e86fc780ca04b410681b --f46d0444e86fc780ca04b410681b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 If you're able to stabilize the footage to the face, wouldn't it work to pre compose the stabilized shot, do your distortion on the precomp, and then apply the reverse of the stabilize to the distorted footage in another precomp to bring back the camera motion? - Nathan On Wednesday, December 14, 2011, Byron Nash wrote: > Can anyone give any actual working methods for distorting a moving shot of a face? Have a shot of a face that I need to subtly add movement to such as a smirk. Most of the methods I have tried so far(puppet, liquify), can't handle that the pixels getting distorted are also moving around in the shot. I need a way to distort that can take into account my tracking data and distort in a relative position from there. I'm on a tight turnaround so I can't afford to R&D 10 different methods at this point. If anyone has completed a task like this before I'd love to hear what tools inside AE you used. > Thanks! > Byron --f46d0444e86fc780ca04b410681b Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If you're able to stabilize the footage to the face, wouldn't it wo= rk to pre compose the stabilized shot, do your distortion on the precomp, a= nd then apply the reverse of the stabilize to the distorted footage in anot= her precomp to bring back the camera motion?

- Nathan

On Wednesday, December 14, 2011, Byron Nash <byronnash@gmail.com> wrote:
>= Can anyone give any actual working methods for distorting a moving shot of= a face? Have a shot of a face that I need to subtly add movement to such a= s a smirk. Most of the methods I have tried so far(puppet, liquify), can= 9;t handle that the pixels getting distorted are also moving around in the = shot. I need a way to distort that can take into account my tracking data a= nd distort in a relative position from there. I'm on a tight turnaround= so I can't afford to R&D 10 different methods at this point. If an= yone has completed a task like this before I'd love to hear what tools = inside AE you used.=A0
> Thanks!
> Byron --f46d0444e86fc780ca04b410681b--