Create Custom Blood Spatter With CC Mr Mercury

Create Custom Blood Spatter With CC Mr Mercury

on Apr 9th 2012 with 13 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: Just After Effects... enjoy
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: Part 1- 10:10 min, Part 2- 11:59

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

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In this tutorial we will create some customised “300″-inspired blood splatter using only After Effects’ built-in CC Mr Mercury. We’ll start by altering the settings just right to get the motion to look natural. We’ll then wrap up compositing it into the shot with some realistic color correction. After Effect project file included below. Enjoy!

Part 1

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File size: 89.5 MB

Part 2

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File size: 107.6 MB

 
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  • sharo

    *****nice *****

  • sabini1

    WOW!!! thank you so much for this great tutorial!
    I was going to learn RealFlow to create custom blood splats effects….
    But now with this great method you showed I won’t.

    Thank you so much for saving me time :)

    • http://vfxbyjames.info james whiffin
      Author

      I appreciate your appreciation, cheers sabini1.

  • Brett Perry

    Nice to see the effect created with a “native” AE filter. I probably would use Particular, but not everyone can afford plug ins. About keyframing the producer point, wouldn’t it be possible to keyframe the layer position and rotation more easily. You would use a larger than comp size solid, so you wouldn’t have to worry about the “blood” going out of frame. This would also allow you to use the comp’s motion blur instead of the radial blur. A blending mode of multiply or darken would retain the lumanance details that you used from the original background layer. Very well related tutorial, thanks.

    • http://www.devastudios.com Ben

      Hey Brett,
      I agree, nice to see a native plugin technique like this. Surprised they used this in the production of 300, I would have thought trapcode particular or some sophisticated 3d fluid software.
      I think the reason James is key framing the producer and not the overall layer position is so that blood splats move on their own trajectory after their birth. Otherwise you’d have the same problem he demonstrated with stock footage where blood is moving out from it’s birth position and also being translated to the footage. It ends up looking strange. And the motion blur technique makes sense because most of the motion blur would tend to emanate radially from the point of impact. It does make sense though to add some additional motion blur to match any big camera motion.
      Thanks for cool technique James!

  • pato

    Wow great tutorial…i always use blood from Video Copilot action essentials ,but now i can make my own blood video : ))) thank u so much.

  • http://www.creativedojo.net VinhSon Nguyen

    Fun tutorial man, great job!

  • http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/vfx/create-custom-blood-spatter-with-cc-mr-mercury/ muslim

    hi?

    thanks man

    that great tutorial

  • http://motionfreaks.pl MFreaks

    Nice tutoial. I always was using CC Mercury tu simulate water drops on glass and stuff like that… but now – blood will bee our number one :)

  • Sheila A

    What is this “Potatono-OOPViews677″ with the download of the video? My renewal is coming up, I would at less like for someone to explain why we can no longer download these for offline viewing..

    NO, I’m not installing downloading software.. They bug my system up, every time. if these are suppose to be downloadable, then we shouldn’t need to install that crap, to download anything

  • http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/vfx/create-custom-blood-spatter-with-cc-mr-mercury/ wow

    thanks man
    Can you give me the tools Lesson

  • http://www.interactivered.com interactive red

    This is a great tutorial in the progress of learning After Effects such a cool tool.

  • kwaku nyantekyi

    I think it would have been best to parent the CC Mercury producer to an offset null to make animating the blood easier.