Breaking free from the locked-down camera, for this shot I made a makeshift motion control rig with a Lego monorail set that moved my camera back and forth at a consistent speed. I grabbed all the footage then lined up the shots to be in sync and then rotoscoped each section in. It was a bit tricky because of parallax, but ended up good.

An effect done similarly in technique to a clone shot. For the end of the shot I masked off the left side of the screen and time-remapped it back on itself to hold the stance while the motion continues on the right.

Fun with direct interaction. This is actually my attempt at a clip done first by Colin Levy which you can see here, where the idea is to set the cup on something, then in the other clone's take, pick it up, and digitally remove the thing the cup sits on, as well as rotoscope the hands a bit. I did this to see if the motion looks natural or if it just looks like I set the cup on something. I think it's quick enough to look good, especially if you don't know how it was done.

Digital panning like in the other panning clip at the bottom of the page can only go so far. The big test for this clip was to seamlessly combine two seperate moving shots into one to achieve what looks like a fluid pan across a much greater area of space with both clones in it. It didn't come out perfect, but the distortion that is left is fairly discrete.

This is one of my coolest clips. In addition to the saber effect, I performed both parts of the fight and composited them together to appear as though I was fighting myself. I'm still surprised at how real it came out.

This was a big ground breaker for me. This clip marks the first time I attempted direct interaction between the two subjects. Not an easy thing to pull off, but very cool looking when you do.

This clip was basically just done by using a second person, switching roles, and using the appropriate half from each take. The ball does go out of the frame so it's a different ball that falls back in. It's a pretty cheap trick but impresses people a lot.

I like this one pretty well. For this clip I essentially cut off the punching hand while it was "behind" the head, giving the appearance of overlap. It does kind of look like I punch a bit off from center, but hey. It was a pretty good test.

This was a test to try having more than one clone in a shot. I figured I might as well go all out.
I tried to time it so that they all appear to react to each other a bit. I think it worked out pretty well.

This was one of the first times I tried indirect interaction.
(they both interact with the clipboard, just not at the same time)

Basically this is two shots plugged together ending up wider then the final frame, allowing me to digitally pan across frames together. While not visually spectacular, this technique does add a new layer of realism to the effect shot.