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This blog is documenting the progress of a puppet troupe in the making. We have a love for the classic Muppet Show & Sesame Street series. We're self-taught in our endeavor to create web-episodes of our own wacky little puppet shows. So please visit every week to witness the development of our acts.
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Click here to see some samples.
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7 comments:
nothing short of awesome! love the choreography! would you share the secret of the animated drawings? after effects i suppose?
All Flash actually, including the fireworks, spent just a couple evenings on it, real simple.
Loved the animations! Sort of a technical question: how did you keep the transparency when you export from flash into the video editor?
I didn't have to. I captured the live action video from the digital camera, then exported as a Quicktime movie. Imported that movie into Flash, made a new layer on top of the live action layer, drew and painted the animation on top of it, re-exported as a video.
If I ever had to export from Flash and preserve the transparency from it to a video editor, I imagine I'd just have to export the animation as sequential PNG images (24 bit alpha channel), but I haven't had to try that yet.
I haven't worked in Flash, but you could probably also export flash animations like this (with the white text on black) without working about preserving transparency. Import this as a new track into your editor and set the blending mode to "Screen" ... this would quickly knock out all the black.
You could also key out a specific color...
Nice work on the video, Ron.
Yeah thanks Paul, you are the chroma key master I see from your videos, I've only attempted to use FinalCut recently in attempts to do some blue screen style stuff, I'm still experimenting. :)
Hehe... thanks for the compliment, Ron. Oh, but I am far from a chroma key master! I've been able to use my experience as a photographer to expose and light my video work in such a way that makes it fairly painless to key out stuff is all. I use Final Cut Express with a dvMatte Pro plug-in filter, and a EEFX Bluescreen which helps get a clean key also.
If you ever want to delve into this stuff a bit further in your own work, I'd be glad to share anything I know that might help you out.
Just give me a shout :)
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