Water Tamed and the Last Stretch

Since my last post i had one more scene that needed creating and that was the shot where i interact with the water. This has proven to be the biggest challange i have ever had to overcome. So far i am happy with how it is turning out. Below is a couple of screenshots from After Effects showing how the effect is made:

Using a Clothes Horse, A large piece of green material, a 720p camera, a mirror door stolen from a walk in wardrobe and a bag load of clothes line pegs. Me and my Dad came up a brilliant reflective greenscreen which has speeded up my work incredibly. Once the keying and editing the video were right then it came to the difficult part (not putting the wardrobe door back without smashing it) making the water effect.

The initial effect of the ripple had to be made using a single white solid that was animated using masking and the 3d layer effect











Next job was to make multiple ripples appear and follow a path along my hand. This has been done using CC particle world by turning the ripple composition into particles and making the emitter follow my hand.











This is the final effect so far. The scene needs colour correcting and the shot needs a little rotoscoping. But i feel happy with the effect so far.


So now i have got this overall shot done i will now be concentrating on finishing the last rotoscoping shot. Once that is done i can spend the rest of the next 2 days getting everything finalised.

New update on fx later