Friday, November 15, 2013

Face Warp


This is the video of my face warp I did this using Adobe Effects. I did this by sitting still and recording myself with a blank emotion on my face but having to keep my face still at all times so that it doesn't change the movement of the effect or jitter at all infront of the screen.
The changes that I made to my face in the effect was using the drag tool which drags certain parts of your face, i had to change the brush size to do this though, to a larger size so that it was clearer to the audience. I dragged my eyebrows up so they became pointier, I alos dragged the teeth in the middle towards my lips to make them smaller and to make the fangs that i dragged away from my teeth seem long, the reason I dragged was to keep the point at the tip. I changed my face colour so that my face appeared paler. I added anchor points so that my face went back to normal at the end, I did this by adding 4 anchor points. first anchor point 0% opacity so face was normal, 2nd point 100% opacity so my face appeared warped, 3rd point 100% so face stayed warped up to this point, then 4th anchor point was 0% so my face went back to normal. In between each point is where muy face was forming/changing. The original footage was was filmed on photo booth. Then the footage was saved and Imported onto Adobe Effects. To start off I had to open the Liquify tab and use the warp tool to do all of the dragging. To do the face colour change open an adjustment layer and then use the pen tool and draw around the face and neck, leaving out the hair so that the colour didn't overtake the extras. I then had to open hue/saturation and also Curves, this all appears in a window at the side near Liquify. The curves changes the tone (light or darkness), you can change this around by curving the line on the grid. Saturation does the colour.
I alos had to feather the edges underneath the mask option under the film composition. I alos had to use a keyframe and change mask opacity, if you hold alt and click the keyframe on the Icon: mask opacity,this then brings up a variety of buttons, and if you click the squiggly line underneath mask opacity (pick whip), and drag the pick whip down to distort, it connects the timing up form the original to the adjustment layer. Then some writing will appear, I double clicked the writing and then added '/2' on the end, which halved all of the effects and made the video clearer and more effective. I then rendered the video.

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