Become a Storm Chaser – Day 1

on Nov 30th 2009 with 29 comments
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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

Carlos Batllo is CarlB on Videohive
 
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  • Eric Kristin

    TANK´S! Excelente trabalho muito obrigado por compartilhar.

  • Devin Rajaram

    Really nice tutorial, I will have a look at it later :P

  • http://www.phodana.de Andre

    Looks good, but not as good as in 2012 ;)

  • http://www.noisejunkies.net Rafael Guerra

    Cool outcome!

  • http://www.youtube.com.br/ianhpiratao IANH – BR

    Thanks for this!
    great tut!

  • lostprophet

    Maybe you guys should have a look at this one:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpVJdWebI1k

    • Vinny

      THE BEST STORM HERE
      SORRY CAPS LOCK ON, IN RENDER

  • Billy

    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….

    • Richard

      I was kinda thinking the same thing. Talk about a localized event!!!

  • http://www.videocopilot.net/ Sam Loya

    Not very convincing..
    But nice…

  • Jhon

    To Phat!!

  • Chris

    WOW WOW WOW totally awesome bro luv ya :D

  • eagle

    what use for 3d if this kind of vfx can be accepted…

  • TheCheeze

    Not impressed. Looks and feels fake.

  • nehem

    where is your blog????

  • erdinc

    excellent thanks

  • isometricx

    Amazing.. Thank you

  • http://www.behance.net/Modisana Modisana

    with a bit if corrections here and there it could look perfect… still looks cool though, dont get me wrong.

    Thanks for the tut

  • Loay Emad

    This is just Amazing

  • Richard

    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.

  • http://donotpresstheredbutton.blogspot.com/ Carlos Batlló

    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 :)

    • http://danielbroadway.blogspot.com Daniel Broadway

      Logical. :) Thanks for the tutorial.

  • http://www.screencaster.com.br Guilherme Rambo

    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.

  • Jan Waage

    Word. Looks like some useful techniques were used. tHANKS!

  • pleasure

    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!

    • http://www.donotpresstheredbutton.blogspot.com Carlos Batlló
      Author

      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!

      • shelly

        but form where we copy all that optionn??/

  • shelly

    there is no option coming in animation preset
    not even funnel is coming or any other solid

  • marrisa

    Thanks for sharing, I found it yesterday: http://spidesk.ru