From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects
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Gathering the ball with Element 3D - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects
Gathering the ball with Element 3D
- [Instructor] So, this tutorial is unfortunately not much of a tutorial because one of my favorite tricks here in "The Assurance" was the gathering of the ball and for this I came up with this really cool use but I wanted to show you this because I liked the way it turned out, from those pieces out and so, what I did is I animated those pieces, if I just zoom in here a little bit more, animate those pieces kind of gathering in and then I use super white values on those, that we looked at in the night scene and a healthy does of lens flares and then that made the ball form. So, again these particles, they kind of like, they gather in there, they assemble, so basically they're taking off the random distribution where the particles are just kind of like expanded from this sphere in Element 3D and then I went backwards and gather themselves together and then they disappeared and the ball came on and the fire comes on for the ball. I just really liked the way that was like I just…
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Custom lens flare, part 1: Streak6m 55s
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Custom lens flare, part 2: Glow2m 19s
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Custom lens flare, part 3: Multi-iris 14m 39s
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Custom lens flare, part 4: Multi-iris 26m 10s
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Gathering the ball with Element 3D2m 13s
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Creating Golhatn's eyes5m 54s
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Using dust footage to make embers5m 17s
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Creating swirling particles in Cinema 4D6m 28s
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Compositing live action fire footage3m 48s
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Adding heat distortion6m 4s
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