Leap Into Hancock-Style Super Jump Effect
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: After Effects, Action Movie Essentials. You can purchase the product here.
- Difficulty: Intermediate
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You may have to get up and stretch out a little before starting this tutorial. It’s got some pretty ground breaking techniques and covers quite a lot leaving very little up in the air. In honor of this being a leap year and all, here you go… jump in.
Similar to Andrew Kramer’s tutorial, this one shows how to use a Difference Matte to roto out an actor and then composite various HD elements in front AND behind an actor to make the ground smashing effect seen in movies such as Hancock and games such as Crackdown.
Preview
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Tutorial
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File size 487MB
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Really awesome… i love it.. thanx
Great tutorial, congrats!
Watch out the man behind you when you start flying……he just disappears all of a sudden!
That man is better than you in showing FX.LoL!
Hah, well spotted.
I’ll have a look at the tutorial soon, thanks for posting!
haha yeah youre right. I had already rendered it when i first noticed it so i didn’t want to rerender. i didnt think it was too messy a fault =P.
Beaaautiful!
Really Great!
really cool man
cool one
awesome.
Simply Irresistable……preview blew me off……..can’t wait to watch it…congrats wren
“preview blew me off”
Which video were you watching?! Haha.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha… I love it when you guys comment after only watching the preview!
Favorite line from the tut: “I don’t know what I’m doing…” That’s overstating the obvious.
meh, its my first tutorial. at least I’ve got something right?
Awesome duders!
Hehe .. really cool.
Nice! Would be greater adding a shadow to where you land!
white men CAN jump! lol , cool stuff
wow. awesome. gone are the days of Jumpers and teleporters techniques!
Oh god, those sound effects.
pretty cool
nice effect!
Thanks alot dude….:)
Ei Really Perfect but this tutorial is sooo old,because you watched when He open a videocopilot pag,there was only 17Tutorials and now we have more than 100 ormore exactly 103:d
But Really this is Awesome Tutorial
Old videocopilot? With Action Essentials? I don’t think so.
ei Sebastian you`re righti forgot that
nice tutorial thanks
Do a teleporter effect next
Oh, I mean jumper effect
wow! great! thank you so much! just one thing, add color correction and you got it more realistic!
Excellent tutorial, but am I missing something ??? this is the third time I have seen someone referring to this year as being a leap year. The last leap year was 2008, the next will be 2012. I didn’t see a 29th this past February.
Just wondering, sorry for being of topic.
… Scott
i have seen tutorial already in youtube
that’s really great man.
i think know one notice…. when tht guy return back………he step in those of all debris( i don’t know wht tht land piece called coz of my english weak)….. just watch after 13 second…. but anyway nice tut …….
HI
Thank you!! And where the project itself and the video? Where can I get video, which you show an example?
Hey man, that’s really cool, is there a way to add a shadow on the ground from the flying debris?
Could you do a tut on the basketball scene from Hancock? The one when he is shooting from the other side of the court.
ha ha 我也要被炸飞….
sach a good work but dought of partical flow.
i find my destiny…! when i log to ae.tusplus.com
thnks tut+
Really freakin awesome! Probably the coolest non videocopilot tutorial I’ve seen. Nice tutorial
i haven’t downloaded the tut but preview is awesome. 400 Mb is bit on the higher side though.
what did you hit or click at 8:39? when i hit page up the background around the mask turns black..help me please…
did by any chance figure out the mask issue? havent got a response was wondering if yooou might have found a solution…?
MAN!!
Thank you very mush for this awosome tutorial.
I used the Freeze Frame function for the blanc scene, found it easier
Regards
You’re right, it absolutely is easier to use the Freeze Frame Function. However, that makes the scene static, which is something the human brain and eyes can easily pick up on because it deals with motion. I use clips because even though its incredibly subtle, you subconsciously notice that the leaves on the trees are moving. In most cases in videos as short as this it’s not a big deal, but when thats all the effort it takes to make a non-static scene, i just go ahead and do it.
i having the same issue as aero i am getting a black mask around my video your insight will be much appraciated:]
good hangkong tutor, thank u.
that’s what i’m talking about , Awesome
Nice effect! The tutorial wasn’t the best, but not bad for your very first. For compositing the various pieces of footage instead of using a Fast Blur I would’ve used the mosaic effect to pixelate the elements. It’s what I do when doing VFX and the results are pretty good.
Great tutorial Wren. BTW, which preset from Film Magic Pro did you use for the color correction?
I can’t move my selected area up! When i drag it up only the yellow marking get’s up. Not the person!
please help!!
not seen it yet, the download size is really large, is there any way i can get a dvd mailed to me . thanks.
it’s really hard i need help
This should have been a tutorial on color correcting. Minus all that time spent other than on the actual subject of the jump and landing. IT WAS AN AWESOME TUTORIAL ! ! !
I can’t wait to get the software. Going to order it tonight just to try your methods. Will com back and comment after I screw it up a few times. THANKS.
FlyerTaz
wow.. coooool
thanks tutuorial
hey, what an awesome tutorial…………. it amazing……..
thanks……….
I noticed that there is a strong shock when you jump and land to the ground.How to make this effect?
i have a question,why every time i cut the person out with the pen tool it moves it to the front,it removes it from were it originally is and just moves it to the front .?