Return-Path: Received: from nk11p00mm-asmtp001.mac.com ([17.158.161.0] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5304908 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 16:33:30 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.68] (99-152-153-100.lightspeed.dllstx.sbcglobal.net [99.152.153.100]) by nk11p00mm-asmtp001.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.08(7.0.4.27.7) 64bit (built Aug 22 2013)) with ESMTPSA id <0MX600CTKRBKQ600@nk11p00mm-asmtp001.mac.com> for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:35:45 +0000 (GMT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.11.72,1.0.14,0.0.0000 definitions=2013-12-02_02:2013-12-02,2013-12-02,1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=7.0.1-1308280000 definitions=main-1312020097 From: Jim Curtis Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_2C2B3478-00AD-4B70-AC3C-06AF45DCF123" Message-id: <00DF5F9D-431F-4732-B1C3-EA2231AC005D@me.com> MIME-version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.6 \(1510\)) Subject: Re: [AE] White Board effect Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 09:35:44 -0600 References: To: After Effects Mail List In-reply-to: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1510) --Apple-Mail=_2C2B3478-00AD-4B70-AC3C-06AF45DCF123 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 On Dec 2, 2013, at 7:01 AM, "Fleming, Dave R" = wrote: > Another guy=92s suggestion with the original post at bottom=85 That was me. Here's a download link to the final, with a few scenes = removed. This was low budget, screened-one-time tribute video for a top = salesman at a company meeting. You can see the colors shifting on the white board. The client added = the bit about Qualcomm after the shoot, so I made that scene with Ae = plugs and a masked still of the artist's arm and hand (my method #2). = The visual for San Diego was changed by client after the shoot as well. Part of the fun was cutting the sound effects: http://we.tl/u0oaLFFinw > =20 > =20 > From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On = Behalf Of Jim Curtis > Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 12:18 PM > To: After Effects Mail List > Subject: Re: [AE] White Board effect > =20 > What an amazing marker that is, that changes ink colors spontaneously. = It's magic. > =20 > I did a whiteboard video a few months ago. The producer and I had a = pre-pro meeting, and I suggested a few ways to do them. > =20 > 1. Get a graphic artist to draw, shoot that, and speed up the video = in post. > 2. Shoot a still or video of a hand holding a marker, mask it and = animate the pen tip over a Write-on / masking reveal (or reverse = conceal) from previously drawn art. > 3. Use the record feature of Painter to record illustrations being = created, and animate the masked marker tip as the image is revealed. > =20 > =20 > Method #1 is the quickest to pull off in post, but requires a pretty = good illustrator to draw in real-time. > =20 > Method #2 was probably used in the sample you provided. Look at the = fonts. They're all the same; and some of them are fonts people don't = ordinarily draw in freehand illustrating. If you look closely, you can = see that an artist filled in some traced outlines of what appears to me = to be computer generated fonts and clip art (Look at the two bananas; = nobody draws two bananas by drawing the back one first, and adding a = second one on top.) And look at the pen position in the hand; it = doesn't change much. > =20 > Method #3 requires an expert in Painter, and I don't know any. > =20 > We ended up going with #1. The biggest post challenge for me was to = control and match the shadows cast by the real arm on the real drawing = (even after trying to banish all shadows using several soft lights). In = retrospect, we should have prohibited the people (camera guy and = producer) getting close to the artwork while shooting (Producer was = pointing where and what to draw.), as the white paper picked up fabric = colors that were bounced from the lights onto the paper. Everybody = around the paper, including the artist should have worn all black. > =20 > =20 > =20 > =20 > =20 > =20 > On Dec 1, 2013, at 10:42 AM, Dave Bittner = wrote: >=20 >=20 > The =93writing on a white board=94 animation was all the rage a couple = of years ago, and lately I=92ve seen several pop up like this one -=20 > =20 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DhbcoU9m5H2E#t=3D108 > =20 > This appears to be much more automated than some of the others=92 I=92ve= seen. Any idea if this is the case, and how they=92re pulling it off? > =20 > Thanks, > =20 > Dave > =20 > =20 > =20 >=20 > >=20 > Dave Bittner - Pixel Workshop Inc. > www.pixelworkshop.com > 410.381.8555 > Twitter @bittner >=20 >=20 >=20 > =20 --Apple-Mail=_2C2B3478-00AD-4B70-AC3C-06AF45DCF123 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252
On Dec 2, 2013, at 7:01 = AM, "Fleming, Dave R" <DFleming@hearst.com> = wrote:

Another guy=92s = suggestion with the original post at = bottom=85

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That was me.  Here's a download link to the final, = with a few scenes removed.  This was low = budget, screened-one-time tribute video for a top salesman at a = company meeting.

You can see the colors shifting on the = white board.  The client added the bit about Qualcomm after the = shoot, so I made that scene with Ae plugs and a masked still of the = artist's arm and hand (my method #2).  The visual for San Diego was = changed by client after the shoot as well.

Part of = the fun was cutting the sound effects:


 

The =93writing = on a white board=94 animation was all the rage a couple of years ago, = and lately I=92ve seen several pop up like this one = -