Elemental Combat Series On Aetuts+

Wren Weichman on Jun 26th 2011 with 21 comments

This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series Elemental Combat

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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Remington M
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!

http://www.wrenthereaper.com Wren Weichman
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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.

Alex
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?

Kalib Martin
Where can I find the tut of the girl flying out sky.. ?
http://shuvravfx.tumblr.com/ shuvra
lol , cool preview :)
xsid
feeling sorry for the dead one.. he was nice guy..just got promoted
http://www.youtube.com/PifWorks Meister
I always love your effects! Can’t wait to see the electric shock!
Kemet
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….
http://www.methodd.com Evangelos Methodd
b-movie level…
mohyass
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
http://youtube.com/wthelge Helge
Looks good. Amazing even when the girl comes from the sky! But, how is this your full time job?

http://www.wrenthereaper.com Wren Weichman
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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.

http://www.youtube.com/wthelge Helge
Cool. I wish you the best of luck! *Subscribing*

Derrick van Niekerk
cool..
Does anyone have a link to a tutorial of the girl flying? since it’s not gonna be covered?
thanks,
Derrick

http://youtube.com/wthelge Helge
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”)

http://www.wrenthereaper.com Wren Weichman
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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.

http://www.3rddesign.com 3rddesign
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!
http://www.youtube.com/user/leonbenlolo Leon Benlolo
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
Mindesign
Hi Leon, your link resulted as an error. So here is the corrected way. BTW, pretty good. It seemed you guys had fun.