looking to create an eye twinkle - any ideas??

williamconifer wrote on 10/16/2004, 2:28 PM

Greets all,

Hey I'm doing a lot of montage work and I want to add a fun stylized little twinkle in the subjects eye. Small, quick and subtle.

There is a shot in the movie The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen where the Baron looks at the camera and lays out a great big smile and Terry Gilliam (the director) adds aquick little gold twinkle off his teeth with a little "ting" sound. It's such a cool shot and I've had a helluva time trying to replicate it on my own.

Any ideas?

thanks as always.
jack

Comments

Trichome wrote on 10/16/2004, 2:42 PM

I would try this using Knoll Light Factory plugin for AE.
The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen is one of my all time favs.

DGrob wrote on 10/16/2004, 2:43 PM

Wondertouch Particle Illusion SE.

"Downloads" here: http://www.wondertouch.com/default.asp

Darryl

williamconifer wrote on 10/16/2004, 8:09 PM

OK, thanks for the ideas, but how can I do this in Vegas? even if it's down and dirty.

jack

Chanimal wrote on 10/16/2004, 8:40 PM

I've had an effect that looked like a twinkle using Lens' Flare. I've selected the Sun Burst lens type, and then adjusted the variables, including intensity to create a fairly effective twinkle effect. However, only with a face that was relatively still. I did a commercial and the "proud mom" was standing still in the kitchen with a close up. I created a glow behind her (with Light Rays on a second copy behind her), and twinkle in her eye and a gleen across the teeth. It was fast so it worked fine.

For slower shots I've used Autodesk Animator Studio application (since I helped launch the product for Autodesk). This allows me to paint images onto video, including sparkles.

Hope this helps.

farss wrote on 10/17/2004, 1:08 AM

If you can find or create a suitable 'twinkle' from outside of Vegas then it'd be easy enough to do. You'd either need something on say a black or transparent bg.
Put that on a track about, use either a luminance key or just plain matte if it's alpha. Then you can use a transparency envelope to make it come and go, add some pan / crop to change the scale and / or make it track a tooth etc.

Tom Pauncz wrote on 10/17/2004, 8:46 AM

Hi Jack,
I did this exact same thing with Vegas and Photoshop a while back. Email me and I'll try to dig it out of my project archives. Can probably send you a veggie as well.

Cheers,
Tom

pauncz at attglobal dot net

vicmilt wrote on 10/17/2004, 7:32 PM

and I would definitely add a sound cue with the twinkle - a little "ding" should do the trick