Create An Animated Helicopter From A 2D Image

Create An Animated Helicopter From A 2D Image

on May 17th 2012 with 9 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: Just After Effects... enjoy! :)
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: 59:09 min
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

In this tutorial you’ll be learning how to create a realistically animated and composited helicopter
from a 2D image. We’ll cover how to extract the helicopter from the background using Photoshop before diving into After Effects to get started. In After Effects we’ll look at how to create your own rotor blades for the helicopter, keyframe animation, tracking, and key compositing techniques to integrate the helicopter seamlessly into our footage.

Beyond just the tutorial, I’ll be discussing workflow tips, and topics that are important to understand as a compositor and/or visual effects artist.

Tutorial

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File size: 434.9 MB

 
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Jack Grundy is a freelance visual effects artist, post-production lecturer & filmmaker who has worked on projects from music videos & web to feature film for over six years, primarily using the Adobe CS Suite.  

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  • http://www.the3dfxstudio.com Thomas

    Hi ! Thanks a lot for this tutorial, great job !

  • Lorenzo

    Are you serious? There are a TON of “stabilization tutorials” out there. Anyway, useful enough for a rookie.

  • Ben Reynolds

    where to in Uk u based

  • http://www.frameboxx.in Gaandu

    Almost an hour long tutorial for this one???

    • Nisarg

      Ha ha ha ….LOLZ

  • conna

    Good job Jack and a very explanatory tutorial !

  • jack grundy

    Hi everyone,

    Thank you for taking the time to watch the tutorial. I can appreciate that the tutorial is fairly long for what it is, however, it is aimed more towards beginners wanting to learn more about compositing and the techniques involved. It’s also to help you better understand not just what tools to use but how these tools work so you can use them more effectively in other areas of visual effects.

    Once again, thank you for your time.

    Jack Grundy

  • http://www.spacearkstudios.com Ian

    Thanks for the tutorial! I think this is very useful for a beginner like me.

  • chudd

    looks exactly like a 2D image moving across the sky. cant even see the propellers so you dont even need to animate them. nothing great at all and 1 hour to teach it?