paulruiz

Hi! Here is my little speech, in my poor english. So, excuse me! First of all thanks everyone for your interesting critics and comments in this forum. Also thanks to everyone who submit a video this year (overall very good and fun), specially to Nicolas Chavance, Tom Müller and Albert Lam, for me the three best video-makers this year And my specially-specially thanks are to Mr. Alvey for making such wonderful videos. Those videos are the reason why I am making my own videos nowadays. See you!

Hi there! Sorry for the delay in my reply, but we were on holidays the last two weeks. About the "Intamin flicking effect", I did it with After Effects. It's a bit difficult for me to explain it in english, but i'll try. The video, until the finger "hits" the gondola is the real thing. Since then and during the rest of the frames, I add two layers in the top of the real video with one image each one. One layer is a frame of the lower part of the tower without the gondola (taken from the previous frames), masked with the "mask tool" to cover only the real gondola and not the fingers. The other frame is a picture of the gondola (also taken from the previous frames). I isolated the gondola using Photoshop, with low detail because I apply a heavy blur effect and animate the layer, to make the impresion of a high speed travel . And that's it. I don't know if there is any better way to do this, but I think is the easiest way. About the hours of editing..... honestly I can't remember how many hours I spent in this video, but I guess that 30-40 hours aprox. Woahh. This year the entries are quite awesome. I didn't see yet the last 5 videos but from the first ten, my personal favourites are without a doubt Nicolas and Müeller's entries. Both are wonderful videos. Congratulations Cheers and excuse my english! Paul Ruiz