Elemental Combat Series: Flaming Arm

Elemental Combat Series: Flaming Arm

on Jul 27th 2010 with 50 comments
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This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series Elemental Combat

Elemental Combat

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.

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  • http://ninjaeffects.com/ Markus Gustafsson

    Wow!!! Thats the coolest tutorial I’ve seen for a long time!

  • http://www.aetuts.com luantran

    thanks, tuts great. I like tuts VFX and Motion Graphics
    ho ho ho…

  • Cameron D

    This looks amazing!! Can’t wait to try it out!!

  • Naveen

    Heat Haze Nice! Looks convincing. Thanks for sharing!

  • jink

    amazing!!! this looks great

  • http://www.Urs-Productions.com URs Productions

    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!

  • Samuel

    Nice! pretty good quality!
    Which camera did you used to film that!?

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

      i filmed it with the Canon T2i / 550D. great camera, i love it!!

      • http://www.videohive.net/user/mocarg Mocarg

        I just bought that cam! It’s amazing! :D

      • http://www.tripodbg.com Stefan

        Yeah I got it too.. amazing camera :)

      • Samuel

        That’s what I tought ^^ just bought this one too!

      • http://www.youtube.com/user/simboy48 Adam Sklar

        I bought the Canon 550D, is there any difference with filming from that camera compared to the T2i/550D? Thanks. :)

  • ExtremRaym

    Wooooooo !!!

    the result is just perfect !!

    One of the best of AEtuts !

  • pedro soto

    that´s what im talking about!!!! …nice tut…funny and well done…thanks aetuts.

  • Osvaldo_Tampico

    Really really nice! AE TUTS is getting good again! Thanks!

  • Sorg

    Nice Results.

    Thanks from Brazil.

    Is she your sister?

    • chetan

      dude.. learn the trick :) later girls..

  • http://steam10.deviantart.com stefanos

    OMG :D

  • http://www.rafaelbraga.com Rafael Braga

    Hehehey … thanks for it. Sure I’ll try it.

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

    AWESOME!
    dude, you really need to make more tutorials like this! 5/5

  • http://danielbroadway.blogspot.com Daniel Broadway

    Using a linear workflow. Nice one. :)

  • chetan

    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 :)

  • Vincent

    Which lenses did you use?

  • http://www.crrntn.com CRR NTN

    great job, especially for the simulation of heat into the air surrounding in the girl.

  • Kurt

    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?

  • morstua

    finally a good tutorial
    i was getting bored of other tuts

    i love movies’ effects

  • xsid

    the integral part is the sound.
    where it came from?

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

      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

  • http://mbusinesscorp.wordpress.com Erwann

    Very nice tutorial, vfx as we love them :) !

  • alireza

    hi, thx for tutorial… but in some countries blip.tv is blocked, and we can’t download the tutorial file… txh again

  • http://www.blackbluebrown.com geoff brown

    great work. i’ve been looking for a good way to make heat waves, this helps a lot! thanks for the tut guys.

  • tvandang

    Oh yeah, “Fire is Hot”. LOL. thanks for the TUTS.

  • http://www.thedevelopertuts.com Bratu Sebastian

    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.

  • http://www.webdesigncapetown.co.za Mark

    Hot stuff man, awesome

  • Rohan Henry

    what camera do you use?

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

    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.

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

      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.

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

        Lol, or rather I’ve decided that I think it would look better at least.

  • za

    Thanks I was looking for it!

  • Andrea

    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?

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  • Modow

    What was the name of the movie that featured a woman who also had fire powers?

  • Ware

    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?

    • Ware

      Nevermind, just basically didn’t show the layer anymore, wich makes sense, concidering you’re only gonna use that layer as a displacement map…

  • http://davidossa.tumblr.com David

    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 :)

  • nathan

    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 :)

  • Kevin

    WHY is footage missing from the zip folder??!?!? i got a premium membership for the source files and they are missing!!

  • Kevin

    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!!!

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

      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.

  • http://www.stanleyparrish.com Stanley Parrish

    Nice effect aetuts!!!!