wow!how was this done

[thome]

Is this chroma or what?The transitions are crazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gEOpixlshU

 

[jambredz]

no idea but it certainly is sick...maybe this shud be in the editing forum.

 

[nantnee]

looks like a lot of rotoscoping.

 

[Chris Santucci]

Yep. Frame-by-frame.

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[MikeWilkinson]

Hip hop artists love sticking their face into a fisheye lens lol

 

[djkarn105]

looks like a lot of rotoscoping.

hours,

and hours,

and hours of it.

 

[thome]

hours,

and hours,

and hours of it.

Is it such a hard thing to pull off?You guys are making it sound like loads of work :embarasse.

 

[thome]

Hip hop artists love sticking their face into a fisheye lens lol

Lol I thought that was done in post?

 

[emretufekci]

Hip hop artists love sticking their face into a fisheye lens lol

They also love autotune.

 

[djkarn105]

Is it such a hard thing to pull off?You guys are making it sound like loads of work :embarasse.

Hard and RSI inducing are two different things.

In seriousness though, my guess would be they roto'd the performer and then matched different parts of the footage where they were in similar poses and animated the matte. If you look at this sequence, you can see, they matched a similar mouth pose, the revealed the sunglasses, the head, then the whole body. There's probably a matte constraining the incoming clip to the shape of the performer already on screen as well.

 

[djkarn105]

They also love autotune.

Now now let's not generalize.

 

[pmark23]

I can't believe I just watched that.

It's simply a matte keyframed (badly) to the hat or whatever they wanted. Some shots don't look like a matte, but a simple reveal transition centering on the top middle. On some of the shots you can see the edge of the transition (box or sometimes oval) quite clearly.

Whatever they used it's not done very well -- probably to keep in the spirit of the song. (Zing!)

 

[thome]

Hard and RSI inducing are two different things.

In seriousness though, my guess would be they roto'd the performer and then matched different parts of the footage where they were in similar poses and animated the matte. If you look at this sequence, you can see, they matched a similar mouth pose, the revealed the sunglasses, the head, then the whole body. There's probably a matte constraining the incoming clip to the shape of the performer already on screen as well.

Wow now i get you..thanx for the eye opener too,whats the best software to use for this?

 

[thome]

I can't believe I just watched that.

It's simply a matte keyframed (badly) to the hat or whatever they wanted. Some shots don't look like a matte, but a simple reveal transition centering on the top middle. On some of the shots you can see the edge of the transition (box or sometimes oval) quite clearly.

Whatever they used it's not done very well -- probably to keep in the spirit of the song. (Zing!)

lol but i think to most of us out here it looks very well done because most people don't know the ''correct way'' so all in all i think the editor must have considered this!!

 

[djkarn105]

Wow now i get you..thanx for the eye opener too,whats the best software to use for this?

You could use any compositing software. Probably after effects because animation is easier in it than shake or nuke.