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Veritas21885 Registered: May '07	Date Posted: 11/8/07 9:11am Subject: Changing your eye color?
	I was wondering how to make your eyes look evil with out looking stupid(or contacts). I've tried a few time and every time it looks kinda lame. I'm somewhat new-or in the learning stages so be nice. I can make light-sabers and force lightning look not bad but i'm having a little trouble with this one. The shot is just me in front of the camera(close up) with my eyes close then I open them then the shots ends, all about 5 seconds. there are a few other ways that I have yet to try but I was wondering what all you pro out there can help me with? -----signature----- Even in failure-your only a failure when you stop trying
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RocketGirl Registered: Jun '02	Date Posted: 11/8/07 9:33am Subject: RE: Changing your eye color?
	What method are you trying? I've never done this, being an animator rather than a live-action type, but I imagine that without some of Hollywood's latest software, your best bet is to rotoscope the eyes. Then just cycle the hue setting until you get the color you want and remember that setting... What effect are you actually going for, is another good question. Are you trying to change a natural brown to a natural green, or are you trying to make the eyes glow red like some sort of demonic possession? -----signature----- Introducing new Dark Side RocketGirl™: Quicker, Easier, More Seductive!™ "Duuude, the fat guy totally just blew up!" -Pink Five My YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/BionicDance Read my webcomic: http://kanirabaxter.comicgenesis.com/
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-Spiff- Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 11/8/07 9:37am Subject: RE: Changing your eye color? - Date Edited: 11/8/07 9:40am (1 edits total) Edited By: -Spiff-
	Here's a reasonably foolproof way if you just want to change the colour: - Make two layers of your footage, each set to "Normal" blending mode. - Rotoscope each iris on the top layer with a mask set to "add", and feather the mask a few pixels at the edge to make sure the transition isn't too sharp. - Apply a hue/saturation filter to the top layer, and set it to "colorize". Adjust the hue and saturation to the colour and intensity you want... Don't tweak the "lightness" setting, or bright glares will start to change colour, which you don't want. - Finally, adjust the opacity of the top layer to mix it with the original image to get the desired shade. You can do this with varying degrees of subtlety. Here are a few examples using an image I found with a google search: -Spiff -----signature----- Eclipse SE now available: http://boards.theforce.net/fan_films/b10015/28647876/p1/?26 Spiff(x, \|x-Phi\|<small) = twitterpated FREE THE QUARKS!!!
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Veritas21885 Registered: May '07	Date Posted: 11/8/07 9:41am Subject: RE: Changing your eye color? - Date Edited: 11/8/07 9:45am (1 edits total) Edited By: Veritas21885
	woh nice I'm using premeire pro and AE 6.5(for now) and i'm going for more of a demonic look but not glowing I like your way spiff, now i just need to practice and fiddle and hope my rotoscoping skills are up to par -----signature----- Even in failure-your only a failure when you stop trying
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NateCaauwe Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 11/8/07 10:19am Subject: RE: Changing your eye color?
	-Spiff- posted: Here's a reasonably foolproof way if you just want to change the colour: - Make two layers of your footage, each set to "Normal" blending mode. - Rotoscope each iris on the top layer with a mask set to "add", and feather the mask a few pixels at the edge to make sure the transition isn't too sharp. - Apply a hue/saturation filter to the top layer, and set it to "colorize". Adjust the hue and saturation to the colour and intensity you want... Don't tweak the "lightness" setting, or bright glares will start to change colour, which you don't want. - Finally, adjust the opacity of the top layer to mix it with the original image to get the desired shade. You can do this with varying degrees of subtlety. Here are a few examples using an image I found with a google search: -Spiff That's cool, I love the top left one. -----signature----- http://NateCow.com http://twitter.com/NateCow "Never ask a man what kind of computer he uses. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him?" -Tom Clancy
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Black_Chameleon Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 11/8/07 10:38am Subject: RE: Changing your eye color?
	NateCaauwe posted: That's cool, I love the top left one. I could be wrong, but I believe the top left one is the actual eye color. -----signature----- ' http://www.thechameleoninn.com A video TOTALLY about BADMINTON: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acQzN1oGqpg&fmt=6 DUCK HUNT: The Movie! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMc5BMRVqP8&fmt=6 Much Much More! http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=BlackChame
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durbnpoisn Title: TFN Staff Ca st & Crew Database Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 11/8/07 1:19pm Subject: RE: Changing your eye color?
	That is a really cool trick. If I may add to it... Since you'll have a nice mask made to follow the iris anyway... If you still want to add a glow, you should be able to do that as well by simply duplicating the masks and applying the standard blurs. That would look really cool. Makes me want to make a Dune fan film now. -----signature----- Fan Films Database: R.I.P. Cloning in AE: http://www.durbnpoisn.com/films/cloneTut/index.asp My Star Wars Fan Films: http://www.durbnpoisn.com/films
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-Spiff- Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 11/8/07 1:47pm Subject: RE: Changing your eye color? - Date Edited: 11/8/07 1:53pm (1 edits total) Edited By: -Spiff-
	The top left one is indeed the original. Nifty iris the guy has - it's usually pretty hard to beat nature As for adding glow - you'll find that adding glow layers doesn't work as well as you'd think. Usually people's eyes aren't so brightly glowing that they blow out to the extent of a lightsaber, and the extra blurred layers tend to make the eye hazy. In these cases you want to experiment with un-blurred or only slightly blurred 'add' layers (in 32 bit linear), or try to use the 'exposure' effect to increase their relative brightness. You can also experiment with the 'channel mixer' to get more specific results than just hue/sat. -Spiff -----signature----- Eclipse SE now available: http://boards.theforce.net/fan_films/b10015/28647876/p1/?26 Spiff(x, \|x-Phi\|<small) = twitterpated FREE THE QUARKS!!!
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NateCaauwe Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 11/8/07 2:29pm Subject: RE: Changing your eye color?
	-Spiff- posted: The top left one is indeed the original. Nifty iris the guy has - it's usually pretty hard to beat nature Well then I see why you found it on Google images in the first place, it's freakin' sweet In that case the yellow one is cool looking too. -----signature----- http://NateCow.com http://twitter.com/NateCow "Never ask a man what kind of computer he uses. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him?" -Tom Clancy
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Funk-E Registered: Sep '03	Date Posted: 11/8/07 2:29pm Subject: RE: Changing your eye color?
	Costume lenses aren't that expensive, either. =D -----signature----- I'm so adjective, I verb nouns. RIP George Carlin!
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NitroBlade Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 11/8/07 3:50pm Subject: RE: Changing your eye color?
	Funk-E posted: Costume lenses aren't that expensive, either. =D But on close ups you notice they're fake. -----signature----- GEEKS UNDERGROUND http://geeksunderground.com [Jon Starr Films] [ http://www.JonStarrFilms.com ] [Jonathan Starr]
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Veritas21885 Registered: May '07	Date Posted: 11/9/07 3:34pm Subject: RE: Changing your eye color?
	I tried it and I found that if you set the mask to hard light with a red color you get a nice demonic look(very deep red) yeah contact up close look cheezy -----signature----- Even in failure-your only a failure when you stop trying
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