"Invisible" Visual Effects - 3D-Palace Community Forums

Heroblob · #1 09-26-2008, 10:10 AM

Hello everyone.

This is a shot I'm working on for my reel. It's not finished yet, but I wanted to get some feedback on this bit just for my own peace of mind. The shot contains some so-called "invisible" effects. The type of thing where, if the audience doesn't know there's a visual effect in the shot, then you've done your job well.

So, have a look at this shot, and see if you can tell me what I've done to it (and no, I won't give you any clues

). If you can't tell, then I've done my job well, and I can move onto the next part:

Video - 6Mb Quicktime

Cheers.

TwiiK · #2 09-26-2008, 10:53 AM

I give up.

Then again I don't really see where and why you would need any effects for a shot like that, but I'm sure you can enlighten me.

Carnage · #3 09-26-2008, 11:12 AM

Did you add the fake spider in his hand?

zero_hour · #4 09-26-2008, 11:13 AM

im gonna take a guess and say the stuff in the background (the cars and maybe the background in general)

PS, is it just me or is she flying low?

supertom44 · #5 09-26-2008, 11:15 AM

What ever you have done, you have done it very well and to me anyway it is invisiable.

Can we see the original footage? or would that be cheating hehe.

Great job!

ragupasta · #6 09-26-2008, 01:17 PM

Well I cant see it either. And no its not the spider as I recongnise the clip. I shant say anymore in case there is more to come (iirc this was a short by some fxphd-er's). Was pretty good too.

tadpole3159 · #7 09-26-2008, 01:44 PM

something to do with the window on the door i think...reflections seem pretty strong, i dont know im only guessing.

sandmanninja · #8 09-26-2008, 02:30 PM

I'm guessing the car and the background.
The girl and the door look like they're lit differently (to me).
I wouldn't call it antialiasing, like when you're photoshopping, more like... I dunno.

Slythe · #9 09-26-2008, 04:12 PM

I'm going with the necklace, something about it just doesn't look 'right'

Heroblob · #10 09-26-2008, 05:12 PM

Thanks for all the replies everybody. I can happily tell you that everyone got it wrong

. So I'll move on to the next bit.

I won't tell you what I did just yet. The shot is one of those "SURPRISE!" shots which you don't see coming, and if I tell you what I did to this bit it will spoil the rest of it (Thanks for not giving it away Ragu

). I'm going to wait until I've finished the whole shot, then I'll post a breakdown. That is, provided I can pull it off. This is hands-down the most difficult shot I've ever attempted...