Hey guys! How about a week of compositing tutorials on some action filled scenes like from The Last Airbender? Sound good? If so, awesome, you’re in for a treat. We’ve got 4 days of new tutorials for your learnin’ pleasure! I’ll show you how to make some electric arcing from your hand, form and shoot a fireball, and tunnel through the ground.
These tutorials are covering the effects found in my Elemental Kombat video which you can watch below.
Also… here’s a sneak peek of what we’ll be covering this week! Check it out 
See you tomorrow for Day 1!
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It’s cool, and I like the concept. But I’d just be cautious to not be reteaching the same things that have already been covered on Videocopilot. There were definitely some original effects, but a good portion were from previous tutorials and obviously all the stock footage/lens flares are from there. I’m interested to see it though!
I try to teach original things. That’s why there will not be a tutorial on the part where the girl flies out of the sky. The essence of that effect has already been tutorialized.
How do I achieve the ink drop effect? I know how to make the light trail but would like to know how to make that ink drop explosion plus where can I get the sound fx?
Where can I find the tut of the girl flying out sky.. ?
lol , cool preview
feeling sorry for the dead one.. he was nice guy..just got promoted
I always love your effects! Can’t wait to see the electric shock!
I LOVE THIS
sereously…..long time ago I vantet to create something like this, so THANKS man for your resarge,enegry, and this all…..and its looks realy cool….
b-movie level…
I’m Always looking for new techniques to make element effects and this video …………..was verrrrrry niiiiiiice man
I’m 100 percent with you
show them your real powwwwwwwwwwwwer
Looks good. Amazing even when the girl comes from the sky! But, how is this your full time job?
As a youtube partner I make money from views. But seeing as you need a LOT of views for it to be sustainable, I’m essentially making nothing right now from it. I consider it a business. I need to put in a LOT of effort for a long period of time before it really starts going anywhere. I just graduated college and have some money saved up, so I figured if there’s EVER a time in my life where i should go for it, it’s now. I’m still developing my own skills, but I’m hoping that now that I’m devoting myself full time I can see some accelerated progress in production quality.
Cool. I wish you the best of luck! *Subscribing*
cool..
Does anyone have a link to a tutorial of the girl flying? since it’s not gonna be covered?
thanks,
Derrick
For the girl flying he used stock footage of an ink drop, then a trail of smoke and a optical flare. Pretty simple, yet cool stuff. Check out VideoCopilot’s tutorial for the smoke trail with flare (called “102. Smoke Trails”)
Yup! That’s pretty much exactly it. I set up a camera that followed the smoke trail from way out until really close and animated the flare accordingly.
Wow! I am really having fun with the videos. It’s very cool and wish I could follow this tutorial soon. I’m totally impressed!
I used several tutorials on this site to make this video of my holiday in Manicore, a small town in Amazon, Brazil
http://youtu.be/Jcxb_7_su_Y
Hi Leon, your link resulted as an error. So here is the corrected way. BTW, pretty good. It seemed you guys had fun.
Ooops, sorry forgot to post the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcxb_7_su_Y&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
What exact stock footage did you use for the ink drop? and where can I get a sound fx like that?