Hi,

for our movie we would also like to do some VFX as in Dragonball Z. I've been trying to figure it out, especially we want a gool yellow glow flowing around us like fire.

I can try rotoscoping but I don't think that'll work well. We've got a good arsenal: Premiere, Photoshop, After FX and 3d Max. (And Avid but that won't work).

Trying to gain such an effect like this:

http://youth.actingwild.com/~eric/trunksygoten.gif

Any tips are very welcome, thank you

gotan

Draw it photoshop frame by frame on a separate layer using frame captures from your movie as the background. Then use aftereffects to make adjustments and a continous quicktime movie of the files with transparency, then import that to your edit program and just lay it on top of the footage.

Or import the footage to aftereffects then make your adjustments on top of the footage, then render it.

yea second way sounds better.

That's how I'd approach it.

It's not that hard to draw it, they drew it for the DBZ cartoon obviously, and some of the animation in that cartoon is terrible.

they make several "simulated fire" plugins for aftereffects, you might be able to change the colors on those to yellow and surround someone with it. It won't look amazing, but itll get the job done. Another way that might be easier than hand drawing it, would be to create a fullscreen image of moving energy (that yellow stuff around the DBZ guy). then animate a mask that looks like flames flickering, or energy pulsing, whatever you want, and place it over the energy clip. film your character against a green screen, then compoite it all together.

Ok, we will try to get it done in After Effects. Thanks for the tips

Because I've already tried rotoscoping it, but it doesn't look all to well, you don't get good dynamics, it's a lot of work as well, and it's quivering constantly.

Well no one said it was going to be easy. And yea drawing anything will take months of work if your'e doing it yourself.