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Hello everyone!
I had a lot of people asking me how to fade out characters or change their opacity. The answer is “you can’t” because it is not yet possible to change the opacity of a character. BUT there is a trick to make is appear as though your character is fading in/out, and I will show you how to do that.
THE TRICK:
Upload a background image as an overlay and change the opacity over your character(s).
You can use a photo editing app/site to change the background image to a PNG image.
NOTE: Test overlay opacity out in the app! The web previewer does not show this properly.
*This works with all styles.
“Ghost-like” Characters
- DARA is placed at layer 1 and BOYFRIEND is placed at layer 3.
- The background overlay is set at layer 2 so that it’s between DARA and BOYFRIEND.
- To make DARA see through, I changed the opacity of the overlay to 0.5
EXT. SEINE RIVER - NIGHT
@cut to zone 3
@DARA moves to layer 1 and BOYFRIEND moves to layer 3@overlay RIVER_ZONE_3 create
@overlay RIVER_ZONE_3 to layer 2
@overlay RIVER_ZONE_3 opacity 0.5 in 0
Fading OUT Characters
- DARA is placed at layer 1 and BOYFRIEND is placed at layer 3.
- The background overlay is set at layer 2 so that it’s between DARA and BOYFRIEND.
- To make DARA fade out, the overlay needs to be set at an opacity of 0 at the beginning of the scene, then I will change the overlay’s opacity to 1
EXT. SEINE RIVER - NIGHT
@cut to zone 3
@DARA moves to layer 1 and BOYFRIEND moves to layer 3@overlay RIVER_ZONE_3 create
@overlay RIVER_ZONE_3 to layer 2
@overlay RIVER_ZONE_3 opacity 0 in 0@pause for 2
@overlay RIVER_ZONE_3 opacity 1 in 2
Fading IN Characters
- DARA is placed at layer 1 and BOYFRIEND is placed at layer 3.
- The background overlay is set at layer 2 so that it’s between DARA and BOYFRIEND.
- To make DARA fade in, the overlay needs to be set at an opacity of 1 at the beginning of the scene, then I will change the overlay’s opacity to 0
EXT. SEINE RIVER - NIGHT
@cut to zone 3
@BOYFRIEND moves to layer 3@overlay RIVER_ZONE_3 create
@overlay RIVER_ZONE_3 to layer 2
@overlay RIVER_ZONE_3 opacity 1 in 0&DARA walks to spot 1.28 100 20 in 2 and DARA moves to layer 1
@overlay RIVER_ZONE_3 opacity 0 in 2
AND THAT IS HOW YOU MAKE CHARACTERS “FADE”!
HAPPY DIRECTING!