AE6.0 - Transition only part of an image

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:42 am

I'm wondering how exactly to do this. I have two images that are identical save for the fact that in one the character is wearing clothes and in the other they aren't. I'm wanting to transition (be it by directional blur, shatter, whatever) from the clothed to the unclothed image, but I only want the clothes themselves to be affected, in effect that they're getting ripped off by some means. I've been playing with the difference matte, but it's not working for me. How should I go about doing this?

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:07 am

I would try just drawing a mask around the clothes unless it's pretty complicated.

You might be able to get somewhere with a difference matte though, if you try applying a levels filter to the resulting matte to get it almost pure black/white.

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 12:46 pm

maskign is your best bet, from my experience with anime, mattes are hard to ensure that it looks totaly realistic due to the color gradiants

Vlad

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:03 pm

Yeah, I ended up just taking the image with clothes into Photoshop and using the wand tool to take out the body and make a duplicate to use as a mask - thankfully the image had transparency from the get-go and was fairly clean so it wasn't hard to cut that stuff out.