Elemental Combat Series: Earth Breakthrough

Elemental Combat Series: Earth Breakthrough

on Jul 1st 2011 with 36 comments
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This entry is part 4 of 6 in the series Elemental Combat

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Twice a month we revisit some of our readers favorite tutorials from the archives. In light of this weeks Elemental Combat Series, we are going to repost this tutorial from back in February to complete the week out.

This tutorial has three main parts. It covers the panorama background plate for the scene. It does NOT cover the rotoscoping of the actor (grrrr). Then, the jump is animated with Action Essentials II dirt footage composited in. Finally, the “camera move” effect is demonstrated from an intriguing zoom to epic wide angle!! Get your Jump on!

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Discussion 36 Comments

  1. Umer Zafar says:
    February 9, 2011 at 7:24 am

    looks promising… thanks for the effort

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  2. Manuwarna says:
    February 9, 2011 at 8:45 am

    Nice one.I Do Like ae tuts a lot.Thank you all.

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  3. DoomLike says:
    February 9, 2011 at 8:51 am

    Interesting :)
    a final effect embed video would be cool :P

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  4. Rick says:
    February 9, 2011 at 8:53 am

    Cool to see some good tutorials on here again….

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  5. xsid says:
    February 9, 2011 at 11:47 am

    better with the dirt on the cloths and face of the actor.
    however very nice and interesting preview i have seen.

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  6. Lyndon says:
    February 9, 2011 at 12:18 pm

    :D

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  7. PavanRzx says:
    February 9, 2011 at 12:31 pm

    NICE TUTORIAL THANKS :D

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  8. Daniel Smith says:
    February 9, 2011 at 1:02 pm

    Thank you man, i actually learned allot of tips i’ve been thinking about, you explained allot of them :)

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  9. Don says:
    February 9, 2011 at 2:32 pm

    I´v seen this tut before. Just a dude jumping down instead of up.
    But nice one. But it is a rerun.

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    • Wren Weichman says:
      February 9, 2011 at 6:50 pm
      Author

      If you’re referring to the Hancock Super Jump, thats not really the case. I made that tutorial too and there are a lot of principle differences between the two videos in how they were made.

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      • Don says:
        February 11, 2011 at 4:50 am

        Hi Wren,

        that was the on – it was super cool.
        Just thought it was a copycat :) will check what you have in this one.
        I learned a lot from the previous.

        thx.

  10. Jim Gillett says:
    February 9, 2011 at 3:13 pm

    Excellent tutorial. Thanks!

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  11. Adrian says:
    February 9, 2011 at 4:15 pm

    Dude everything you make is fantastic.

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  12. jink says:
    February 9, 2011 at 6:11 pm

    everything looks good except for the larger chunks of dirt which, instead of immediately collapsing to the ground, linger in the air

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  13. philjohnson says:
    February 10, 2011 at 12:51 pm

    cool effects. but the ground started lifting up too early. but still a very nice effect.

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    • Wren Weichman says:
      February 10, 2011 at 5:12 pm
      Author

      That was actually on purpose. To show something was coming, then have the actor jump out of the bubbling ground. It is very easily changed if you want to though. That’s the beauty of these tutorials. You can do what you want.

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  14. IANH - BR says:
    February 10, 2011 at 5:51 pm

    Awesome idea!

    thanks for share

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  15. Thiago Paulino says:
    February 11, 2011 at 12:16 am

    Hey man! Really cool tutorial congratulations! Like vary much the result you got.

    I understand that you are getting better each time on making awesome tutorials and i’ll add only one thing, watch out for the “hann” sounds that you make, you are a really good tutor, just work out your speech! :)

    Hope that was useful, keep up the good work!

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  16. liam bauckham says:
    February 11, 2011 at 5:17 am

    wow that looks amazing

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  17. Mark Alan K says:
    February 11, 2011 at 9:17 pm

    when matching up layers, I prefer to set the front layer to “difference” transfer mode, line it up, then switch it back to normal

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  18. richie says:
    February 13, 2011 at 10:18 am

    very nice tutorial

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  19. Júnir says:
    February 18, 2011 at 5:35 pm

    How do I for download the footage? Thank you.

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  20. white says:
    March 4, 2011 at 5:20 am

    this cool

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  21. e11world says:
    March 5, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    I’m gonna have to try this. It looks pretty sweet!

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  22. zack says:
    April 14, 2011 at 4:09 am

    Not Bad

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  23. vijay says:
    April 23, 2011 at 9:19 am

    after donwload ur tutorial file got “Quick time Atom error” …how to get rid of thar man????
    pliz

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  24. Andi says:
    April 24, 2011 at 5:52 am

    This thing looks awsome. Im new at after effect…and i have problem with rotoscoping =/. Is it posible to get a short or long…or i guess any kind of tutorial that would help me do the rotoscoping for this example.

    Ty for your anwsers in advance.

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  25. Josh says:
    July 2, 2011 at 1:39 pm

    Cool! What kind of screen do you use?

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  26. tim says:
    July 4, 2011 at 7:45 am

    What’s with the repetitive content – the site just keeps rolling over the same shit again and again, the whole home page are repeats today… are they not getting enough content?

    Its amateur content at best too.

    I’ve done better looking shits than this.

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  27. Leon Benlolo says:
    July 4, 2011 at 5:58 pm

    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

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  28. Anon says:
    August 7, 2011 at 1:27 am

    Uh….

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  29. ALI KEMAL says:
    August 12, 2011 at 2:37 pm

    mersi @@@ and @@@ thenkuo@@ شكراً جزيلاً انا علي كمال من سوريا انا معجب بأعمالك كثيراً

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  30. Daren girdner says:
    September 24, 2011 at 7:44 pm

    This was awesome thanks for the tutorial. I wish you would have shown how you color corrected it. The colors went from flat to very vibrant, especially Sam. He was quite dark.

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  31. Mojtaba says:
    March 5, 2012 at 4:20 am

    If is Possible upload your tutorials directly on your web because we have problem in iran with watching these videos due to filtering some of websites like: youtube / vimeo/BlipTV,etc

    thanks alot for good tutorials

    Reply

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