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How To Create An Awesome Teleportation Effect

How To Create An Awesome Teleportation Effect

on May 23rd 2012 with 22 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: 28:40 min
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This is a tutorial on how to create a teleport effect similar to the Fallen’s teleport effect in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. We start with tracking the footage, adding glow to the actor, and using fractal noise to create a ‘lattice lightning’ effect. I used this shot in my short film, ‘Agents Of Evil: Supercharged‘.

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File size: 228.3 MB

 
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Hi, my name is Maxwell Swet. I have been interested in special effects for a long time, but what really got me started was watching Star Wars for the first time about 3 years ago. I started out doing lightsaber effects in LSmaker, moved up to FxHome EffectsLab, and then to After Effects in 2010. Since then I have been learning a lot about visual effects and filmmaking. I love my Savior Jesus Christ, without him life would be meaningless.  

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  • http://4after.wordpress.com sandeman

    Very good tutorial, well explain and the result looks great!
    I’m wondering if you didn’t have the possibility to increase the size of the movie, because of the movements of the camera that shows different edges (the bottom, the top, a part of the left one.
    You stabilize the footage, and then are free to dupplicate it, and with the freeze option, select the moment where the image is shown and then become easely able to do the camera shake.
    I don’t know if i’m very clear ;-)

  • Kevin

    I really like the initial design of the effect, but I feel like it could have more :D

    • http://www.youtube.com/ianhfx IANH

      Same feeling :D

      • Maxwell Swet
        Author

        What do you suggest I could have added?
        Max

  • Antarseine

    Good job! Very very good tutorial ! could you do a tutorial on the effect of aura in Saint Seiya Hades? As the video that I put the link and another tutorial on the effect of line speed we see in anime manga.
    Here are the links of videos :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml0xId4LfJg
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcup-AOFYVk&feature=related

    Thank you in advance, because I look for tutorials on these effects for a long time but I can not find one.

    • Maxwell Swet
      Author

      What effect are you talking about?
      Max

  • http://www.opencreativs.com Opencreativs

    Really amazing.. I`m just following the tutorial and working :)

  • Robert

    Great Tutorail !
    Perhaps a second part from “Agents Of Evil Film” the VFX at 0:29 sec and 0:46 sec. is cool – are this a Greenscreenshots to move the person?

    Robert

  • http://www.youtube.com/Ruffneck101 Brock

    Hello,
    So I’m following your tutorial, but as I am a beginner-intermediate with AE, I cannot seem to figure out for to render my rotobrushed character so I can create a matte. Every time I render, I have a black background when I import the saved matte into the comp. Changing the blend mode to ADD gets rid of the Black, but when I try to alpha matte the black solid with the fractal noise effect to my teleport matte, it simply applies the effect to the entire window, as opposed to only the white character. Help?

  • http://www.youtube.com/ruffneck101 Brock

    I retract my previous message, though I couldn’t figure out how to render it as a matte, I duplication the rotobrushed footage, removed the effects from one of the layers, and used the other with the effects still present as a matte. Works great. Thanks for everything.

    Brock

    • Maxwell Swet
      Author

      You could try to luma matte instead of alpha matte.
      To make an alpha matte:

      -Add the layer to the render queue
      -Set the format to Quicktime
      -In Format Options, set the codec to PNG
      -Under Video Options, set the Channels option to alpha

      That should render the layer as an alpha matte.

      Glad you enjoyed the tutorial!
      Max

  • Mehmet

    Looks pretty awesome.
    Thanks for the tutorial

  • KONG

    4:28 picture is how to do?

  • http://www.zebravideo.ca corporate videos toronto

    really nice work. Like part with tracked shake very much. Always think that usin natural references is the best way to go.

  • Timo

    I rotoscope it but when I render its look so bad!!!!!! please help, I retry alot already!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Javed

    I give up.

    I’ve been trying this for 8 hours straight and I can’t do it.

    I render the matte I created, but when I import it, it’s not transparent.

    Complete waste of my day :(

    • Maxwell Swet
      Author

      You need to have the settings set to: Quicktime-PNG-Alpha only. Hope this helps.
      Max

  • Fdfxd

    OFF COURSE…how could be so dumb not know how to make the lightning effect.
    Thank you and god bless you!

  • grebled

    how did you manage to key yourself (screen matte) out so clearly? May i have problems keying myself out because of the poor quality of my video footage?

    • Maxwell Swet
      Author

      Maybe. It took a lot of fine tuning with the Rotobrush tool to get it right.
      Max

  • http://www.facebook.com/shaun.parsons.503 Shaun Parsons

    How did you get the background black and you white?

  • TPM

    Terrible Tutorial…so difficult to understand when you hardly speak or give no explanations