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azmin

09-26-2004, 06:44 PM

Hi everyone,

I've posted this question on a 3D forum but the feedbacks suggested that I was on the wrong forum.

I've seen this ads on Animal Planet channel where they've got this "will be back"/"is back" text composited on live footage.

I mainly do short multimedia presentations and most of the time I use Cinema 4D and edit with Premiere 6.5. I've been learning combustion for a while but haven't done any heavy stuff (some particle fx, cc, tweaking + finetuning).

I've done some logo animation combining 3D and live footage but these Animal Planet ads are something else.

Any ideas?

Thx.

Per-Anders

09-26-2004, 07:23 PM

haven't seen the thing you're talking about but it just sounds like standard masks. i.e. the text is a mask/alpha for one layer of moving imagery over a background of different moving imagery. though rereading it sounds like it doesn't even have imagery in thte text, so it's just a straight layer. got any links to the footage?

azmin

09-27-2004, 07:04 AM

Thanks for the reply.

I'm sorry I haven't got any link to the footage. It's just something that I saw on TV.

It is basically a footage of some animals but in the background there is this text (will be back/is back) looking like they were there among the animals, with shadows and all. It really doesn't look like it's being comp. on a layer or being done on a greenscreen. The text looked like they really belong in the scene.

There's this one footage of some elephants wading thru' a river, and in the background, on the riverbank (behind the elephants) there is this text "will be back". My first thought was like it must be some props being set up on the riverbank (like a giant set of letters) until I saw the other footages.

Sorry couldn't be any clearer but somebody suggested that it might be a rotoscoping tecnique. Could it be?

Thx.

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