Smoke effect?

While I wait for the 12 meg download, I can tell you that I used Premiere and Photoshop to simulate layers of fog.

In Photoshop, I applied a cloud noise pattern to a 2000 x 2000 pixel block. Background black, foreground white. Then I copied that layer to an alpha channel. Then I made the top layer all white.

Then, I imported that image into Premiere, on several tracks, all superimposition tracks above my "lunging monster head". Then, I set each layer's transparency to alpha channel. Then I applied Image Pan to each layer, until each one tended to move sorta like "real" fog (I changed ratios in addition to panning, so it would sorta' stretch out and bunch up)

Then, between each one, I put my lunging monster and applied to all lunging monster clips the same zoom transformation (the monster coming atcha!). Then, I knocked all the opacity rubberbands of the monster clips to 0 and one-by-one faded the monster clips back in over the duration of the clip (I also had a constant background image).

The result was five layers of independently moving wispy fog with background image and a monster lunging toward the viewer, passing closer and closer through layers of fog.

It was a hack, but it turned out looking better than I expected!

There are at least five other ways of doing it, I'll bet.

Cheers,


Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

Okay, I've looked at the clip. That's more sophisticated than my cheapy-weepy method above. I recommend you write to blackout skateboards and simply ask them to put you in touch with the people who made the video. It has the look of being some kind of plug-in.

Cheers,


Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

Thanks for your help!
I did also find an other way to make it:
Quicktime effects / Cloud.
It looked almost like in the videoclip.

I don't have the time for long downloads just now, but I wonder if the QuickTime Clouds effect (P5/6/6/5) might help with a suitably-educed transparecy and key applied?