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Published: 2014-08-19 17:40:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 57146; Favourites: 315; Downloads: 646
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[The city's great radio selection might be working against it]
My first Motion Collage (?) Heavily inspired by the work of who was also the one who brought this particular Taylor Swift clip to my attention.
Note: the expanding watermark was a mistake, I forgot that automatic keyframes were enabled in after effects.
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This looks like some good compositing, did you take this from a green screen clip or did you cut it out some other way?
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worshippers gonna worship, haters gonna be crushed
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May I please use this gif? It's...for science!... Yeah... That's it... ^^"
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well I can't stop you from using it for whatever it is you want to use it for.
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Yay!~ 
(I actually just would like to save it as a gif on my laptop...please. 
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can an noobyy like me do some gifs with a bit practice i really like to know how this works?
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did you use green screen or did you cuted her out of video is there any tutorial
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I rotoscoped her in Adobe After Effects CS6. I used the rotobrush tool and custom keyframed masks to create the alpha channel.
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thank you for answering nice work
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This is exceptionally good. The detail of the debris flying up as she leans back and using this gif for its properly intended purpose. Phenomenal.
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Stellar clip there! ( Even if it is The Evil One! ) The impact where her feet hit the ground, the flying debris, everything spot on! You wouldn't care to teach me how to do that, would you?
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Thank you!
Well all the effects I used for this came from 'Video Copilot's Action Movie Essentials 2' it's a pack of pre-keyed special effects that I use quite often. Everything else was just aftereffects, rotobrush for masking and a few blurred-out shape layers to create the fog and atmosphere.
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Please do, Analternateusername, lets get this animation bandwagon rolling!
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Are you some kind of contemporary Midas?? Everything you touch turns into gold. If you didn't tell it's your first animation, I would have believed that you work doing this o.O
And just out of curiosity... have you ever tried to draw or write before?
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Well I'm pretty good at drawing when it's pencil to paper. I've tried to do some pandoza-style drawings but when it comes to drawing on a graphic's tablet all my skills go down the drain. I have to force myself to look up when drawing and when I do, I lose track of what my hand's doing - drawing on a computer just doesn't feel very natural to me. I've never tried to do any serious writing, the closest I get is writing those little captions for my collages. I don't think i'd be any good at it anyway.
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As far as I know, there are a few models of tablets that are able to show the canvas from your PC on its screen so you don't need to be looking up as you draw... although I think the downside is that they are quite expensive, but there's always the option of purchasing them second hand in eBay or some other place. It would be really interesting to see you drawing with a style similar to the one of Pandoza.
Also, it would be great if you write some story in the future. Hedin, for example, spends part of his time doing both, collages and stories (both are some of the best I have seen around). You should give it a try someday, you surely won't disappoint
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This is a SICK animation. You and Docop should totally have an animation duel
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It would be a very one sided duel - he'd wipe the floor with me!
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Even if it was I'm sure we'd all love to see what you guys came up with! You're both super talented
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I feel like your goal in life is to put the rest of us to shame.... But in all seriousness this is one of the best GTS gifs I have ever seen! You get a gold star!
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Who told you about my master plan?
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"He may look like he's just fallen off the back of a turnip truck, but he wouldn't run if his ass was on fire. He goes with you. And that's a deal breaker!"
I couldn't resist! :3
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can you make one with emma watson that would be so amazing nice simply amazing
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Geez, dude, are you trying to give me a heart attack?! This is friggen awesome!! Pretty easily my favourite giantess thing ... ever!
Lets hope Taylor sees this and uses it as inspiration for a future video clip! *fingers crossed*
Also, how did you get the keying/rotoscoping to work so well? I haven't played around with these too much, but whenever I do (on similar clips; a woman against a pretty flat white background) I can never get a clean mask. Lots of haloing, square/sharp JPEG artefacts on the mask boundaries, etc. Any tips or suggestions? Because I've got a handful of giantess animation I'd like to make with similar clips, but I always just end up giving up. Looks like you have a much better idea of what you're doing!
And if I may echo Springer42 ... do you have a higher resolution version uploaded anywhere (YouTube, GfyCat, etc?) This is so wonderful that I'd love to see it in it's non-deviantart-compressed version.
Once again, absolutely spectacular.
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I aim to please!
To deal with mask boundaries I just lowered the saturation of everything in the scene and then colour corrected the sky to match the colour of the greyish border around Taylor. You can still see the mask boundary rear its ugly head on her shoes because they're against a dark background. Theoretically I could've fixed this by going through frame by frame but that brings me on to my next point.
Long Story short. Currently visiting parents = slow internet. Spent hour downloading 1080p rip of Tswift music video - video was corrupted. Had to settle for sub-hd version to work with. That's why if I uploaded a higher res version of this it wouldn't make a difference because the composition started off low-res. That's also why I didn't really bother cleaning up the mask or CC'ing the destruction effects, because it's hard to see the difference at sub-HD. That is also how I managed to finish this up so fast.
I want to redo this but start off with a better quality clip. It'll allow me to go into more detail and add some extra stuff to the scene, consider this a prototype version.
If you're still struggling I'd love to take a look at some of the clips you're working on. Perhaps I could take a crack at rotoscoping some of the trickier ones and I could send you back a chroma-keyable version.
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Ahh, you got the sky/video background to match? That's very clever! I'll have to keep that in mind, it could work well for some of the clips I'm thinking of.
Even without it being made from the highest possible resolution source, this is still a cracker of an animation.
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Just incredible. Is there a YouTube or other higher resolution version?
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wow great
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Hell yea, this is awesome. I can never get enough of T-Swift.
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Oh wow! I am amazed! You and are very talented! Maybe you should consider producing clips together?
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