I guess this is kinda like the exact opposite of when kids say "Look Mummy - no hands!".
They're my hands, by the way, and they're juggling Rubenstein's Revenge. It's far from perfect, my excuse is that I couldn't see too well :P
Note: If you're not using Firefox, this may look stupidly slow. The nifty play/pause thing won't work either. Sorry folks (unless you're using IE by choice, in which case it's your own damn fault :P)
Below you can see a couple of incomplete versions, which look pretty amusing:
- Original Image (740kb) - stop laughing, it worked didn't it?
- Halfway there (640kb) - using a chroma key (a fancy video filter) I was able to eliminate most of my body
- Finally, I had to manually edit the alpha channels of each and every frame to get the final version you see here. That part was not much fun :/
3 Comments:
The Iraqi circus is hiring I see
OMG. That is super cool. Especially that one with you in the green drapery. Hehehe. Hey, green is my favourite colour.
Nifty stuff. How exactly did you do it? Filmed your juggling and then what??? I'm interested to know.
Pls? O_O
The green-removal is a standard video editing thing I believe. It's called a chroma-key, and it's a standard effect in after-effects. You pick the colour you want to get ris of, and then play around with the tolerance and fuzziness until you get a decent result. It was a bit tricky while wearing the cloth though, because you can't distinguish colour well in the shadows...