Topic: Quick Masking Question

Hi, a few weeks i made a masking test of a guy throwing a suitcase at another guy and some of you said that there was no shadow under the suitcase. Well thats my problem, I don't know how to make the shadow, can anyone help me?

Last edited by Ark11 (March 6, 2010 (04:36pm))

Re: Quick Masking Question

What are you using to edit the images?

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Re: Quick Masking Question

I am using Bafran (some german program) it's in the free software list.

Re: Quick Masking Question

I don't think I can help you then. mini/sad

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Re: Quick Masking Question

Use GIMP, rsteenoven has a tutorial on this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH-y2_Ew9L0

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Re: Quick Masking Question

You also can use WAX from Debugmode for this.
Create an black image.
Import the ready clip (the one u made with Bafran) and the black image into WAX.
Put the clip under the black image.
Now create a Mask on the image and move the mask by using keyframes, so the mask will be tweened from frame to frame.
U can adjust the position and trancparenc of the mask on several frames.

Re: Quick Masking Question

This is a case of lighting and placing the rigs. If you dont want to crazy on the shadows get better lighting (and or a better camera). For the shadows, place the rigs on the side of the figure and then mask normally.

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Re: Quick Masking Question

Use the airbrush tool in Gimp or a similar tool in PhotoShop. PhotoShop would probably work better in this case as you can make layers 3D.

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