Elemental Combat Series: Flaming Arm
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: After Effects and VCP's Action Movie Essentials 2
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Run Time: 40 min
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Have Fire? Have People? Have desire to be awesome? Learn to composite stock footage of various fire elements and have your friends burst into flames. In addition, learn to use the fire as a displacement map to create a unique “Heat Haze” effect from the fire.
Tutorial
Download Tutorial .flv
File size 249MB
Additional Resources
- Maltaannon’s Particle Playground: Fire Tutorial
- Create Fairly Realistic Fire using CC Particle World
- VideoHive.net
- Detonation Films
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Wow!!! Thats the coolest tutorial I’ve seen for a long time!
thanks, tuts great. I like tuts VFX and Motion Graphics
ho ho ho…
This looks amazing!! Can’t wait to try it out!!
Heat Haze Nice! Looks convincing. Thanks for sharing!
amazing!!! this looks great
Very nice idea! And the heat flickering is great. Displacement map, right?
But i will know as soon i´ll check the tut!
Keep going!
Nice! pretty good quality!
Which camera did you used to film that!?
i filmed it with the Canon T2i / 550D. great camera, i love it!!
I just bought that cam! It’s amazing!
Yeah I got it too.. amazing camera
That’s what I tought ^^ just bought this one too!
I bought the Canon 550D, is there any difference with filming from that camera compared to the T2i/550D? Thanks.
Wooooooo !!!
the result is just perfect !!
One of the best of AEtuts !
that´s what im talking about!!!! …nice tut…funny and well done…thanks aetuts.
Really really nice! AE TUTS is getting good again! Thanks!
Nice Results.
Thanks from Brazil.
Is she your sister?
dude.. learn the trick
later girls..
OMG
Hehehey … thanks for it. Sure I’ll try it.
AWESOME!
dude, you really need to make more tutorials like this! 5/5
Using a linear workflow. Nice one.
its really awesome.. finally a good tut worth a lot of wait in this website..
just an addition- u could have added a sense of vibration when the fire ignites.. the tension that builds up had kept me waiting for one.. just an suggestion, not advice
Which lenses did you use?
great job, especially for the simulation of heat into the air surrounding in the girl.
Hey man great tut I have that same cam. What did you use to help stabalize but still give it that hand held look? Also what did you use to color correct?
finally a good tutorial
i was getting bored of other tuts
i love movies’ effects
the integral part is the sound.
where it came from?
although it wasn’t the focus of my tutorial, you’re exactly right! but i did explain a fantastic website for sound effects towards the end of the tut which is where i get most of my sound effects. It’s the Free Sound Project, and its essentially a community driven, quality sound effects website. here’s the url:
http://www.freesound.org
Very nice tutorial, vfx as we love them
!
hi, thx for tutorial… but in some countries blip.tv is blocked, and we can’t download the tutorial file… txh again
great work. i’ve been looking for a good way to make heat waves, this helps a lot! thanks for the tut guys.
Oh yeah, “Fire is Hot”. LOL. thanks for the TUTS.
Wow, nice effect. I would love to have my arms burning. And all that burns I had, if I knew I wouldn’t have put fire on myself
))
Seriously, great tutorial. I think AeTuts is getting back to advanced tuts.
Hot stuff man, awesome
what camera do you use?
WOW!! ok what timing on this. Look what just came out! Specifically about 3:50 in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelHwf8o7_U
That’s a GREAT example of REALLY good flame on stuff!!! It looks like VCP’s Action Essentials 2 as well! I noticed that they went kind of towards the minimalist route, Less fire but in well placed spots. I thought it looked really good. They also had less Displacement “heat” from the fire than i did which i also liked.
So yeah, use the music video as a guide to something that looks good and my tutorial for the idea on how to do it.
I also have decided that if you can in making a fire video, film it inside or against a dark background. Or at the very least NOT in the sun haha.
Lol, or rather I’ve decided that I think it would look better at least.
Thanks I was looking for it!
Great tutorial, very congrats! Excuse me, i have a question for all ae people. Can anyone talk me about witch is best setting for exporting TOD files by MPEG STREAMCLIP with best quality?
nikon d90 is better than canon ti2/550d
here’s the proof.
http://www.digitalreview.ca/content/Canon-Rebel-T2i-EOS-550D-Compared-to-Nikon-D90.shtml
What was the name of the movie that featured a woman who also had fire powers?
Ehm, it sure looks awesome and all, and I’m having alot of fun with AfterEffects these days.
But I have one problem.. At about 4:07 after he has just inverted the first flames, to make the heat haze, there’s a “ehhm”, and suddenly the movie skips, and you have appereantly added something to the mix, as the heat haze is now transparent.
For all of you out there who knows AE well, this might not be anything, but for someone who follows the tut pretty straightforward, this one threw me off. Care to explain?
Nevermind, just basically didn’t show the layer anymore, wich makes sense, concidering you’re only gonna use that layer as a displacement map…
Can you post the video without the fire? …I really want to try this tutorial and I’m not have footage to apply this amazing effect :S Thanks for the excelent tut
The fire is hot, the girl is hot, and the tuts is awesome… it burns me up! Is this free download? I’m gonna DL this. thanks
WHY is footage missing from the zip folder??!?!? i got a premium membership for the source files and they are missing!!
can i have my money back? the term “source files” is misleading. you make it sound like you get what you need to make the video. i paid 9.99 for nothing!!!
Dude you have to own the stock footage to use it, they can’t legally hand it out for free. If you do you have it, then you can easily link it up.