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 12 of 20 in the Keying and Rotoscoping Session
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This entry is part 5 of 7 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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  • http://www.behance.net/mohdumer Umer Zafar

    looks promising… thanks for the effort

  • Manuwarna

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

  • DoomLike

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

  • http://www.duckrabbitstudios.com Rick

    Cool to see some good tutorials on here again….

  • xsid

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

  • Lyndon

    :D

  • PavanRzx

    NICE TUTORIAL THANKS :D

  • Daniel Smith

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

  • Don

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

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

      • Don

        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.

  • Jim Gillett

    Excellent tutorial. Thanks!

  • http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/adrian.c.jensen Adrian

    Dude everything you make is fantastic.

  • jink

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

  • philjohnson

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

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

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

    Awesome idea!

    thanks for share

  • http://www.designtuts.com.br Thiago Paulino

    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!

  • http://www.liambauckham.com liam bauckham

    wow that looks amazing

  • http://MarkAlanK.webs.com Mark Alan K

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

  • richie

    very nice tutorial

  • Júnir

    How do I for download the footage? Thank you.

  • http://www.17ps8.com white

    this cool

  • http://www.e11world.com e11world

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

  • zack

    Not Bad

  • vijay

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

    • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller

      hm… try opening in VLC player.

  • Andi

    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.

  • Josh

    Cool! What kind of screen do you use?

  • tim

    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.

  • 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

  • Anon

    Uh….

  • ALI KEMAL

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

  • http://youtube.com/whatsthatsmelltv Daren girdner

    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.

  • Mojtaba

    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