Learn How to Create an Advanced Jumper Effect

on Aug 10th 2012 with 67 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: Just After Effects
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Run Time: 30:26 min
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

We’ve all seen the standard disappearing effect from a camera that sits on a tripod and doesn’t move. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a dynamic disappearing effect from a moving camera shot. Our camera will pan with the actor as he runs, jumps, disappears, and reappears. The actual disappearance also includes a dynamic dissolve and warp effect. And the best part is, no third party plug-ins are required.

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Every few weeks, we revisit some of our reader's favorite posts from throughout the history of the site. This tutorial was first published in November of 2009.

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  • http://www.youtube.com/clbray Christopher L Bray

    Cool tutorial thank you :)

  • Harvey

    OMG!! Just what i looking for!!

    Thanks a Million mate! Good Job on the Tutorial!

  • andrew

    very cool effect! thank you for sharing!

  • Elie Romano

    Not bad. A slight wiggle on the comp during disappearance and reappearance would be a great touch making it a little more powerful

    Great job!

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

    Thats im talking about!
    really good tutorial,

    i love this type of stuff!
    thanks

  • luantran

    Visual Effects good. Thank and have fun

  • TOm

    Ok, simpel effect.
    But cool

  • Kai

    I like the stuff about the panorama, it has a lot of compositing potentials.

    But the teleport effect could be improved a little.

  • http://www.nouveller.com/ Benjamin Reid

    The thumbnail looks really good as a ‘dissapearing transition’ but it doesn’t seem to work in the video, perhaps it needs slowing down.

  • http://www.youtube.com/iamthe202 Fernando

    Wow man, that’s just a amazing tutorial. I’m imagining how long you take for make this awesome tutorial.

    Congratulations for this awesome tutorial and thank you for this.

  • luller

    Good stuff, but you should have had some distortion on the background footage in my opinion, maybe some negative bulge would do the trick. Good work anyways!

  • Steven_LS5

    I agree, the tutorial is cool, but the way you speak gives me the feeling, you didn’t took a breath between the sentences. i’d recommend the whole tutorial with a duration of 45 mins with some small breaks beteween the steps…

    next! ;)

    • Dennis

      I agree, and I might add that it seems more like you’re reading a recipe than giving the viewers an understanding of what is going on. A simple explanation here and there goes a long way to help them see the big picture. Otherwise awesome, thanks for the tut!

  • http://dontrunwithscissors.org/ Zim

    I tried doing the jumper effect some time ago, and this was the result:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O99IAwN5qBw
    The idea was to apply the same to a jumping person between scenes, but I never got to shooting it.

  • http://www.mattburnell.com MbCM

    Looks very promising. Looking forward to digging in. Thanks Tim. Actor/VFX… interesting combination. Hope it continues to work for you.

  • Kevin

    Good tut. This would take about 5 minutes if you used a tripod head that rotates the camera at its nodal point.

  • krizZz

    I like the tutorial and how you solved the jumper effect (panorama compositong) but I definately agree with Steven_LS5: the way you speak is soooo twisting my nerves… I cannot listen to the whole tutorial at one time. You should try to speak more relaxed ;)

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/Siupej666 Siupej

    Beginner tutorial :/
    there are thousands of umper effect tutorials on YouTube and theyre better than this.
    Sorry for my bad english

    • http://youtube.com/user/giridharzinta Giridhar Sharma

      Indeed!
      :(

  • http://beaudetteblog.blogspot.com Grant Beaudette

    I’d suggest checking out Video Copilot’s Training DVD “The Bullet” It shows how to build a panorama for a camera move without the liquefy smudging.

  • MK

    nice job dude. I’m loving the camera move for this effect. It really pushes this effect to the next level.

  • Abojung

    wow….there was nothing advanced or dynamic in this effect. you can hardly see any effect while teleporting, and overall its so so dry. if you guys really wanna learn some more advanced jumper effect then i would rather suggest ths one
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvJcdf7gdtY&feature=fvw

    other than that, this tut was so not cool, or also can be said, a carbon copy of all the jumper effects that you find on net. anyway you earn some bucks , cool for you tho. –___–

    • http://www.behance.net/Modisana Modisana

      C’mon dude.. you didnt have to sound so mean… yes the effect wasnt as powerful as it could have been, but he is just learning like the rest of us here.

      • Abojung

        well maybe i was rude, but you know for yourself, and i sont need to explain. And everytime someone criticizes a tut, the only excuse is that, C’mon guys atleast he is sharing, or Free etc etc. :P

    • Flashman

      Bro, cool link, but i like the jump effect in this one i came across sometime ago
      its sometime around the 3rd minute in the video, but overall i like the effects they put into that video.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6pugX-1w58&feature=plcp

  • ethan28

    reallllyyy coool. thanks!

  • Goldie

    Abojung, no offense but your link isn’t that good. This tutorial is better. Not that your’s is terrible, just outdated. This adds a new twist to an old effect. Ae Tuts got it right on this one. Well done Tim.

  • aetutsboy

    i like it mmm just one thing, it looks pretty bad this is just a background image, am i correct right?

  • MINIMUS

    C’mon guys , if you really think that you can make something better than this… show it to public… !! I wanna see how cool can you make a jumper effect with the basic tools/effects instead criticizing somebody who is willing to share his nice VFX ..

  • http://tent-graphix.de Cody

    Year okay i really expected a little more advanced effect. The interesting part was a bit how to create the panorama but even this I had already known.

    BTW Are you never breathing? You really talked very quick. And it seems without any break^^

    Anyway it was a cool tutorial.

  • http://www.uproarmultimedia.com Gregory Gunther

    Wow. Great tutorial. It seems like there should be a must easier way to do this. That panorama business is way too convoluted to remember. Couldn’t you just shoot a shot of him jumping, then an empty pan shot, and a shot of him landing and then composite them together with the added FXs?

  • MK

    The youtube thing isn’t very good. A little kid running around a baseball diamond and a little camera shake? If you’re going to say that you have something better, then shouldn’t it be better? lol.

  • daniel smith

    just incase you guys DIDN’T see the link check out this jumper effect

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I3DqFYJdUQ

  • tvandang

    i was ready for this tutorial until you started on the panorama. almost the entire tutorial was about setting up the panorama effect and i lost interest. though i totally appreciate for putting up the tutorial for us to see. thanks anyway but is this how most jumper effects work?

    • daniel smith

      hey go to the link above your comment and tell me if you want a tutorial on that one :)

      • JohnM.

        LOL I see what you’re doing. I checked it out and it does look more realistic. The way the leaves move when you “jump in” makes it look way better.

      • tvandang

        oh, that looks very nice:-) i like the fact that the leaves and branches are moving at the moment of jumper effect. are you making one?

    • http://www.behance.net/Modisana Modisana

      I think your outcome is better than the tutorial we have here. Nicely done

      • jordy

        I totally disagree. Both Links reeeeeeally stink. Not to mention I noticed that they are both friends on youtube. I think you can discredit them due to self promotion. Plus who needs a tutorial on how to use a leaf blower anyway?

  • jordy

    The strength of this tutorial is the camera movement. Every jumper tutorial I’ve ever seen before has the same old straight shot with a little wiggle or shake. Same thing with the youtube links. There’s nothing new to them. But this tutorial introduces something new. So I give this tutorial 2 thumbs up.

    • tvandang

      i am rather new to AE. why do we need this panorama effect using his camera movement, if we could just rotate the camera the same way as the panorama movement to create the same effect? am i wrong on this? thanks!

      • jordy

        If you rotate your camera with your actor, how do you plan on making him disappear? By masking him out? Well then you have a hole in your footage. To fill that hole on moving footage you’re going to need to do something like motion tracking or making a panorama like he did in the tutorial to fill the hole.

    • tvandang

      you are right. since the camera is on a tripod, can we film the first clip with the actor and then the second clip without the actor, rotating the same way for both clips, and masking the actor to make him disappear. thanks!

      • jordy

        Ummm, unless you’re going to use an automated and programable tripod…it won’t work out that easy. If you do it by hand, you’re gonna have difficulty matching things up. One shot moves a little faster or slower and they don’t match. Meaning you’ll have a floating area in your background. Still shot with panoramic or motion tracking is the only way I can think of to pull this off.

  • William Cannavaro

    Muy buen tutorial amigo Tim.
    Espero que seas buen actor, pues yo soy muy buen crítico.

    Saludos.

    Greetings

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

    You remind me of the movie phone guy. :)

  • Ivanex

    Excelente tutorial Tim
    excelente……………………
    un saludo desde Bolivia
    y muchas gracias por el aporte…

  • fidget

    good knowledge in here, knowledge that can be applied to more than just a jumper effect, people should remember that before they gripe the “jumper effect was not powerful enough”.

    But i agree about your speech, it is really annoying and I can not watch this because of it – slow down and relax and try to sound more like a human instead of a robot. Pauses between sentences are okay.

  • Lawrence

    This one has a bit of camera movement
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xlp1vQWWVM

    • jordy

      Not bad…the movement is pretty miniscule though. But overall not bad.

  • JW

    cool tut, what sucks is the $9 per month, when it all used to be free. Nothing lasts. Nothing.

  • CJW

    I like the content of this tutorial but here’s some harsh criticism:

    I couldn’t watch this entire tutorial, the way you speak annoyed me. Take a breath and slow down – you speak to fast and I lose concentration which subsequently makes this entire thing much more confusing. And it took a lot of time for such a simple effect.

    “next do this, next do this, then do this, then do this, now do this, now do this” just kind of got a bit annoying and because it was so fast, I didn’t pick up on everything.

    Also, would have made much more sense if you had of shown the entire RAW footage at the start so we know what we’re working with, instead of just saying ‘you’ll notice there’s a lot of different angles’ without actually showing us the entire footage. No – I do not notice there are a lot of different angles – I don’t even know what you’re doing when you’re duplicating layers and moving them around because I don’t know what the actual footage looks like. Duplicating a layer the scrubbing through the timeline to another point in the footage would have made more sense if I had of seen it at the start.

    Cheers.

  • Jonathan B

    The tutorial is ok, but you must remember you’re making a tutorial for people that do not know how you constructed the effect, therefore you should not just rush through it with your speech in a way that makes it sound like you expect everyone to know what you’re going to do anyway. Everything just seemed rather confusing as you sort of “expect” us to know what’s going on since the start, and we actually have no idea, all we see you start off is with the effect and then you rush in with the lesson. Too much chaos :D

  • http://scripting.fsf.on-rev.com/blog Jose Salvatierra

    Really awesome tutorial. Congratulations, and thanks a lot!

  • http://avapglobal.com/Vikash/index.html Vikash Verma

    Great Tutorial….:) But you need to go slow…. U were speaking too fast buddy…..

  • FAMOUS

    very nice

  • miguel

    good job andrew

  • Toby Johnson

    I Normaly get bored really easily but you hooked my attention awesome tutorial thanks allot!!!!

  • Bob

    I’m in China, so I can’t go on youtube… :(

  • John

    Thank you for the tutorial, really nice. But in the future try to make the pitch in the audio even, its a little annoying when one second your voice is quiet and next second is 2-3 times higher.

  • Jaqueline

    Nicely said michael, ” … Great tutorial! I enjoyed the part with the pen making the mask around the asian guy ….very interesting and fascinating and captivating and intrigued me quite a bit….very interesting and nice and fun to watch. Definitely caught my attention!” hahah :)

    Very nice tutorial. Maybe making this a step by step process could help, too.. I’m a little slow when it comes to the video part, I’m more of a visual person, I guess…

    Overall, VERY NICE TUTORIAL! Keep up the great work!

    -Jackie

  • makos X

    Very complicated for a relatively simple effect, but thanks.

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    wooow tanks

  • Javed

    Wow, that was incredibly complicated. I was lost from the word “panorama” :(

  • http://www.webistudio.com webistudio

    wow i loved this one and wanna try it out … i will shoot a video tommorow morning and try the tutorial
    thaaaank you!!