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Hi,
I was just wondering how they put Tom Burgerons head on America's Funniest Videos, on a movie sequence. That is hilarious and i would love to do it.
amanda
Hi Amanda - I haven't seen the sequence, but I imagine that they probably cut his head out from a photo using a program like Adobe Photoshop. If the head is from a movie clip, then they may have used a program like Adobe After Effects to cut him out using animated masks. If the animation is pretty crude, they would have then hand-tracked the face to the other movie sequence, or they may have done an actual "track" using tracking points from the sequence. Tracking is when you find distinct points or areas in footage to "stick" a photo to.
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Joseph Silver is the creative director of Designomotion, a motion graphics design studio located in New York City. His work has played in Times Square, the 2004 Olympics, and the 2006 World Cup, as well as being aired in commercials and show packages for ABC, CBS, MTV, and many other television networks. His studio has over ten years of experience creating customized broadcast design and animation for leaders in network television.
Education: Columbia University
Awards and Honors: Gold and Silver Broadcast Design Awards (Promax/BDA, Tribeca Film Festival)
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