February 26, 2007 by John Dickinson | 7,521 views | Comments (12)
Here’s a recent boxing promo I did for Main Event Pay-Per-View. The spot was shot and edited by Darren Bolger. The edited base was taken into After Effects where I color graded and composited it onto a light rays background created using Fractal Noise, Directional blur and Trapcode Shine. Adding Trapcode Starglow to the boxers and angling the light rays to match the glow helps give the impression that the boxers are surrounded by light, particularly in the punching shots.
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February 27, 2007 at 9:49 pm |
Hello John.
Nice job. Like all of yours. I like the most how you use starglow.
It would be great if you should post a .ffx for color correction you made for boxers.
Thanx.
Jacob
February 28, 2007 at 5:03 am |
i love it is simple but effective
February 28, 2007 at 1:21 pm |
How did you key this footage?
February 28, 2007 at 8:11 pm |
I keyed the footage using a combination of luma mattes and rotoscoping. To create the luma matte I duplicated the footage, applied the Shift Channels (to make it greyscale) and Levels (to crush the black and whites) effects. This made a pretty good matte but I still had to fill in some holes using hold-out masks. For some of the stationary shots I used more masks because I wanted the boxer to be clearly in front of the light. This wasn’t so important for other shots where the boxers were moving quickly – in these cases it looked better if part of the boxer was in front and part behind, that way they looked as if they were “in” the light beams.
The color grade was created using Stu Maschwitz’s Rebel CC preset. You can grab it here.
March 1, 2007 at 9:04 am |
How did you use multiple masks with a track matte applied to the layer? I tried it and I dont find way to make it “fills” the holes?
March 1, 2007 at 7:53 pm |
Sorry I forgot to add that the masks I used to “fill” the holes were filled with white using the Fill effect. JD
March 2, 2007 at 12:35 pm |
Great use of starglow, subtle and clever. Really looked good on those punches!
January 15, 2009 at 5:14 pm |
Hey John maybe this was already answered but how did make it look like the punches etc react to the light? Is that where starglow came into play? Like the parts where the lights effect the boxers it looks very cool seemed you did it in the hulk promo too.
thanks
Josh
March 3, 2010 at 9:37 am |
great work John!.. thanks for posting..very generous of you to share your method.
July 15, 2010 at 7:50 am |
Hey John,
Awesome promo. I’m trying to perform the technique you mentioned but I’m still trying to figure it out. Anymore tips to offer?
July 19, 2010 at 11:16 am |
Hi Kes, did you have a specific question? Best wishes, John.
July 19, 2010 at 1:16 pm |
My question is how did use the masks to fill in the holes for your luma mattes
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