Become a Storm Chaser – Day 1
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating
In this two part tutorial we’ll learn how to composite a Tornado and unique point of view using only still pictures. Then learn how to add even more effects like distant lighting and cloud twirling. You’ll learn about the puppet tool, the camera’s focus options and the endless possibilities of particles. Best of all, there are no external plugins are required! Twist and Shout!
Tutorial
Download Tutorial .flv
File size 245MB
Source Settings
Make sure to download The Farm (by Jonathan Gill) and The Car (by Hyperscholar) pictures to follow along.
All of the sounds at the preview were obtained for free from FreeSound
Particle Settings
Here you will find the settings to all the Particle World effects mentioned at the tutorial. Check the title at each picture to follow, also, they are in order.
FUNNEL
DUST
GREEN DUST
GRASS
DEBRIS
RAIN
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TANK´S! Excelente trabalho muito obrigado por compartilhar.
Really nice tutorial, I will have a look at it later
Looks good, but not as good as in 2012
Cool outcome!
Thanks for this!
great tut!
Maybe you guys should have a look at this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpVJdWebI1k
THE BEST STORM HERE
SORRY CAPS LOCK ON, IN RENDER
It starts from the ground up and then joins the clouds (I’ll remember that the next time I see a funnel cloud…on the ground)….and the wind seems to be making ONE tree blow. I mean….ya know….just pointing out the obvious….
I was kinda thinking the same thing. Talk about a localized event!!!
Not very convincing..
But nice…
To Phat!!
WOW WOW WOW totally awesome bro luv ya
what use for 3d if this kind of vfx can be accepted…
Not impressed. Looks and feels fake.
where is your blog????
excellent thanks
Amazing.. Thank you
with a bit if corrections here and there it could look perfect… still looks cool though, dont get me wrong.
Thanks for the tut
This is just Amazing
Gotta say that the most interesting part is the rack focus. The elemental effects just aren’t convincing especially with the dead calm of the other trees, etc. But, hey, thanks for using AE native plugins only. I do appreciate that.
It is definitely true, it gets less convincing when just ONE tree is moving, but if I had to animate all of them the tut would have been even longer for no reason. The idea of a tut is to provide a method, and it would be great to see how people applies it to all the trees in the comp
Thanks for all the comments, the positive and the constructive ones
Logical.
Thanks for the tutorial.
Guys, this is just a FREE TUTORIAL. Don’t expect to see Hollywood like vfx wich would take weeks to accomplish on a FREE TUTORIAL.
Word. Looks like some useful techniques were used. tHANKS!
I can’t fint the “funnel” in the animation presets in the CC Particle World Plugin that says this tutorial… I can’t convert the “smoke” option, help me!
Great tutorial!
Well, in the video tutorial I use the presets for speeding purposes, but you will have to copy all the settings provided in the “Funnel” picture below the tut in your CC Particle World effect. And the same with the others.
When you are done, you can save them as a preset ; )
Hope it helps!
but form where we copy all that optionn??/
there is no option coming in animation preset
not even funnel is coming or any other solid
Thanks for sharing, I found it yesterday: http://spidesk.ru