Tuesday 26 Aug 2008 - 10:18
The video for 'Walking on Air', the new single from Estonian pop singer Kerli, explores the creepy side of fairytale imagery, featuring plenty of full CG backgrounds, as well as CG face-replacement and other techniques.
Directed by Aggressive, the promo shows just how much you can do with After Effects, and features the baby-faced star in a rickety, broken-down house, where walls become forests, strange bearded men beckon through mirrors, and a puppet that resembles Kerli takes on a life of its own.
Several scenes required intensive CG work, while almost every shot has some form of CG element. Aggressive has posted a VFX breakdown online showing how key shots, such as the room that revolves around while Kerli remains still, the room whose walls are made up of forest, the man in the mirror, and the Kerli puppet, were created.
The making-of video shows how the rotating room and the forest-walled room were both created by shooting the singer against greenscreen and then adding in the backgrounds in post, while the puppet shots were created by filming Kerli in close-up, masking off her neck and body using green sheets, then distorting the shape of her face by trimming in the chin and changing the shape of her eyes and mouth, before compositing these onto the body of the puppet.
The man in the mirror was created by, again, shooting the actor against greenscreen, then applying filters to distort him and make him appear aged, adding a film of speckles across him to enhance the old-mirror effect, and compositing him into the final shot.
3D visuals were created using 3DS Max, while After Effects was used for compositing.
Click here to watch the video.
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