Becoming Invisible

[ambrose]

Hi everybody, I am new in using Combustion, after having tried After effects. Iwould like to know if you know how to make someone become invisible, then visible? I mean something like the predator movie? Many many many thanks if you can help me!!

[James Jacobs]

Its kind of easy but tricky to explain,
Is your talent on a green screen? If so this will make things easier
key out your talent.

Take a copy of your talent which has been keyed out and add a colour corrector to make it grey. you will animate this later
Now you get to play with the levels as well.
you want to blowout your colour by dragging your white point all the way up towards the black.

Make a copy of your background plate add a set matte operator and choose the keyer from your keyed out talent. Then expand this layer by a few more pixels with matte controls operator.
Now on this layer add a displace operator then select the colour corrector on the keyed out talent. This should distort your copy of the BG

with the uncorrected keyed out talent you will animate the opacity for it to fade in as quick as you like.

you will also animate the levels on your grey talent to flatten out and fade this layer over the
orginal talent

layers should something like look like this

Talent keyed out and set to grey for the distort effect – you can have this layer turned off
Talent keyed out for your fade in effect
Background layer with displace operator
Background layer

Hope that helps

This is just a guide and play around with the settings to get the look you like.

its alot easier to show rather than type.

[Anonymous]

thank you, but I wonder if somebody has a real example of what can be done using combustion? Any exemple (.mov, .avi) of invisible man, made with combustion?

[chris]

how about nearly any effect in Sci-Fi channel’s BattleStar Galactica? will that do? nearly all lightwave and combustion by Zoic.

//gD

[Aleks]

Gary,

I love BG. Are you serious? That’s all they use? I thought for sure they would probably have Flame or something along those lines with Combustion.

[Wesley Meeks]

In my website, i have a tutorial PREDATOR, visit http://WWW.ROBAYOSTUDIOS.COM

this in Spanish, but is very good

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