From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects
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Combining live action explosion shots - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects
Combining live action explosion shots
be taking a look at this explosion shot when the magic ball that Ta'ani makes finally lands, it goes off and has this huge explosion. And this of course, sets up how powerful this magic is, and so hopefully the audience later in the movie when Korda'a makes this gigantic ball of magic we might expect that she has a fighting chance against that big demon Golhotan because we see that that little tiny ball made this huge explosion so we hope the audience will wonder what that gigantic ball of magic can do. Now this chapter's going to be less about tutorials and going through things step by step although we are going to do things step by step when we look at how to create these embers, in Trapcode Particular as well as how to create the camera shake, but most of this chapter is just going to be an overview of this project and some of the challenges that I faced. Initially, there was nothing here. If I go back down to this…
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Combining live action explosion shots11m 3s
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Creating a realistic glow in front of objects3m 27s
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Compositing branches over the explosion5m 30s
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Adding embers created with Trapcode Particular13m 47s
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Rotoscoping the characters7m 17s
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Freezing areas of the frame in time5m 17s
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Simulating camera shake6m 42s
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