very cool!

cool первонах!

good

great tut. thanks

very cool,
I would love to see tutorials that uses some advance features (track point),
of AE.

Cool tut.

I really wish Adobe would just buy particular from trapcode, or buy trapcode itself and incorporate all of the effects as standard for premium versions of their software. There isn’t a single person I know that doesn’t use particular at the very least.

Keep up the good work. I’m enjoying the site.

Holy Moses thats amazing! Keep it up guys! PPLEEEAASE do more movie special effects (not just the same old light saber/laser effects) using trapcode particular and whatnot! Show us how to do the wand battle between Harry and Vol De Morte in Goblet of fire?? Pretty please!

Holy Sh**! This site is getting better and better

This is awesome !

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I am really enjoying the site and I think this is a really good tutorial that explains some very useful tools in AE. My only criticism of this is that it looks obviously fake. I could see how this technique might work for old WWI and WWII-era war footage; making it black and white and a little jittery would conceal some of the flaws in it.

Still, keep up the good work!

This is really impressive! THANKS A LOT!

Wow – way more impressive than any of the previous tutorials! Keep it up!

That is pretty cool, the final version looks and feels realistic, love the coloring too )

thanks guys

Honestly, not the greatest final product. Kind of disappointed in the quality of some of the tutorials here so far. No offense, but I’d rather learn from (semi)-professionals rather than someone who “likes to mess around with after effects in their spare time”.

@ Josh: The footage is 640×480, therefore a perfect track is near impossible. The explosion stock footage is free so not the best, if you shot the footage on HD and bought some professional explosion footage this could look great, i’m just showing you the process for you to implement to your own films.

Amen to Josh’s comments. By far the weakest tutorial so far. I’m still trying to figure out where this effect would be worth using…outside some community college night class project. Even separating the parts from it’s whole will only find limited useage. Let’s stick to the multi-purpose professional tutorials so far produced…

Pretty nice. I’d pay more attention to recording raw footage. Use a tripod and in the end, make screen wiggle (make footage 3d, add camera and wiggle the point of interest).

Josh, people like you are never satisfied no matter what. So since nothing satisfies you, how about you just be quiet? There’s no difference between a professional and someone who plays with After Effects as a hobby. If you were in the business at all, you’d know this.

This tutorial is fan-friggin-tastic. EXCELLENT final product. Can’t wait to see more tutorials like this.

thank you randall

HAHA! That was awsome!

I liked the tutorial a lot. I am an aspiring After Effects professional and it helps to see various uses for the software.

@Randall; Actually, I found some of the other tutorials on here really useful and interesting! For example the typography one had an great final look I thought and can be implemented in many ways. The flower explosives one shows some genius techniques and ways to use particular. The beginner one does exactly what its meant to do, shows the basics. The magnifying trackmat wasn’t a favorite, nor was the shattering one– but for this shatter effect, if it were implemented on moving footage it would look great; which is what one reader did I believe, and they did a follow up on it! Hence, I’m pretty satisfied with the majority of the tutorials. Yes, there IS a difference between a professional and someone who just plays around. You could definitely say a professional plays around, but someone who just plays around is definitely NOT a professional.

@James; I know the footage isn’t good, nor is the stock explosion. But why not use what’s available to you and go shoot it yourself? or find another way. You use Trapcode’s Particular which isn’t a free program, and to make smoke, you could use particle playground which IS a free and included effect with a fast blur to achieve a similar effect. There are always ways around an issue to create a better final product, or in this case a tutorial. A good track on footage like this is hard, I’ll agree with you there; but i think the track turned out really well, that’s not what brought down the quality of this final product.

@Billy; Thanks, I agree 100%

@Michael; Great idea

Super cool tut. Sure the footage isn’t professional quality but who cares? I bet there’s a lot to learn from this tut that can be implemented into other things. Coming from an AE beginner, Thanks James.

Glad you appreciate it Brian

@Billy
Not exactly. This tutorial is not showing only HOW TO CREATE BATTLE SHIPS or something but it shows us what is motion tracking and how to stick objects to the footage. Don’t you think it could be quite commonly used?

@Josh
;D

@James
Do your work and do it good.

Thanks James… impressive tutorial !!

brilliant! thanks

@Randall:

“There’s no difference between a professional and someone who plays with After Effects as a hobby.”

Are you serious? There is QUITE a difference.

Amazing tut.

For some reason my motion tracking gets awkwars at the end of the fotage.

I’ve already tryed different sizes but still happens.

How can I fix this?

@Soul

Can you upload the footage you are trying to track so i can have a look?

@souljacker

You can still analyze each frame separately. Takes time but effective. Or try to find some other points.

@josh

Stop QQ’ing. If you got nothing supportive to say be silent.
This is one of the better tuts on this site and very user friendly. If james can do this in his free time, i can’t wait to see what he’ll be doing as a ‘professional’

keep up the good work

Cool tutorial. A couple of points about tracking in general and comping smoke and dust:

# Always check your colour channels first to see which has the best chance of tracking and then use those in your tracker. In most apps, you can decide how much of each of the RG and B channels are taken into account when tracking

# Have a high tolerance for tracking (that is, low chance for failure). It might take you longer to finesse, but you will get a more solid track.

# Usual practices is to screen smoke, however this will lighten the image. Smoke and dust are diffusers, that is they actually scatter light making things darker. Try using straight “over’ or “merge” and working on the alpha channel/grade

I like it. thanks!!

this is awsome tutorial i ever seen …… i love u man … u did a nice job …. please make some playing and car blasting effect also

Thanks man that’s awesome!

I believe that the best way to learn a program is to simply follow quick example tutorials like this one. That’s how I learned flash and photoshop… So thank you for this tutorial.

I partly agree with Josh. Although the fire and explosion effects aren’t that good, the compositing was a nice lesson. I have a lot more to learn in compositing…

The Wiggler? Really? You should teach the far more powerful wiggle expression. You could connect it to sliders and crank them up when the gun fires.

Good information for extreme beginners, I suppose. Nothing in the scene looks well integrated. I expect higher end tutorials from the site.

Cool production thanks

I’m sorry but this is very poor compositing. That’s not a personal insult before any of you start crying, it’s an honest observation.

EXTREMELY creative!

Hi this is a good tutorial and easy to follow also…………

Thanks

hey nice tutorial giving….but who has a after effect or photoshop basic knowledge he follows this tutorial..