Learn How to Create an Advanced Jumper Effect
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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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Cool tutorial thank you
CHECK THIS JUMPER EFFECTS OUT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I3DqFYJdUQ
that vid u put up on youtube was the best one… thats the kind of jump i was thinkin of makin
OMG!! Just what i looking for!!
Thanks a Million mate! Good Job on the Tutorial!
very cool effect! thank you for sharing!
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!
Thats im talking about!
really good tutorial,
i love this type of stuff!
thanks
Visual Effects good. Thank and have fun
Ok, simpel effect.
But cool
I like the stuff about the panorama, it has a lot of compositing potentials.
But the teleport effect could be improved a little.
The thumbnail looks really good as a ‘dissapearing transition’ but it doesn’t seem to work in the video, perhaps it needs slowing down.
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.
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!
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!
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.
Looks very promising. Looking forward to digging in. Thanks Tim. Actor/VFX… interesting combination. Hope it continues to work for you.
Good tut. This would take about 5 minutes if you used a tripod head that rotates the camera at its nodal point.
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
Beginner tutorial :/
there are thousands of umper effect tutorials on YouTube and theyre better than this.
Sorry for my bad english
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.
nice job dude. I’m loving the camera move for this effect. It really pushes this effect to the next level.
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. –___–
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.
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.
reallllyyy coool. thanks!
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.
i like it mmm just one thing, it looks pretty bad this is just a background image, am i correct right?
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 ..
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.
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?
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.
just incase you guys DIDN’T see the link check out this jumper effect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I3DqFYJdUQ
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?
hey go to the link above your comment and tell me if you want a tutorial on that one
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.
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?
I think your outcome is better than the tutorial we have here. Nicely done
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?
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
Muy buen tutorial amigo Tim.
Espero que seas buen actor, pues yo soy muy buen crítico.
Saludos.
Greetings
You remind me of the movie phone guy.
Excelente tutorial Tim
excelente……………………
un saludo desde Bolivia
y muchas gracias por el aporte…
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.
This one has a bit of camera movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xlp1vQWWVM
Not bad…the movement is pretty miniscule though. But overall not bad.
cool tut, what sucks is the $9 per month, when it all used to be free. Nothing lasts. Nothing.
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.
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
Really awesome tutorial. Congratulations, and thanks a lot!
Great Tutorial….:) But you need to go slow…. U were speaking too fast buddy…..
very nice
good job andrew
I Normaly get bored really easily but you hooked my attention awesome tutorial thanks allot!!!!
I’m in China, so I can’t go on youtube…
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.
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