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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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )Christopher L Bray November 17th
Cool tutorial thank you
( )daniel smith November 18th
CHECK THIS JUMPER EFFECTS OUT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I3DqFYJdUQ
( )Harvey November 17th
OMG!! Just what i looking for!!
Thanks a Million mate! Good Job on the Tutorial!
( )andrew November 17th
very cool effect! thank you for sharing!
( )Elie Romano November 17th
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!
( )IANH - BR November 17th
Thats im talking about!
really good tutorial,
i love this type of stuff!
( )thanks
luantran November 17th
Visual Effects good. Thank and have fun
( )TOm November 17th
Ok, simpel effect.
( )But cool
Kai November 17th
I like the stuff about the panorama, it has a lot of compositing potentials.
But the teleport effect could be improved a little.
( )Benjamin Reid November 17th
The thumbnail looks really good as a ‘dissapearing transition’ but it doesn’t seem to work in the video, perhaps it needs slowing down.
( )Fernando November 17th
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 November 17th
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 November 17th
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!
( )Zim November 17th
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.
MbCM November 17th
Looks very promising. Looking forward to digging in. Thanks Tim. Actor/VFX… interesting combination. Hope it continues to work for you.
( )Kevin November 17th
Good tut. This would take about 5 minutes if you used a tripod head that rotates the camera at its nodal point.
( )krizZz November 17th
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
( )Siupej November 17th
Beginner tutorial :/
( )there are thousands of umper effect tutorials on YouTube and theyre better than this.
Sorry for my bad english
Grant Beaudette November 17th
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 November 17th
nice job dude. I’m loving the camera move for this effect. It really pushes this effect to the next level.
( )Abojung November 17th
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. –___–
( )Modisana November 18th
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 November 18th
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.
ethan28 November 17th
reallllyyy coool. thanks!
( )Goldie November 17th
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 November 18th
i like it mmm just one thing, it looks pretty bad this is just a background image, am i correct right?
( )MINIMUS November 18th
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 ..
( )Cody November 18th
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.
( )Gregory Gunther November 18th
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 November 18th
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 November 18th
just incase you guys DIDN’T see the link check out this jumper effect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I3DqFYJdUQ
( )tvandang November 18th
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 November 18th
hey go to the link above your comment and tell me if you want a tutorial on that one
( )JohnM. November 18th
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 November 18th
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?
Modisana November 19th
I think your outcome is better than the tutorial we have here. Nicely done
( )jordy November 19th
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 November 18th
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 November 18th
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 November 19th
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 November 20th
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 November 25th
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 November 18th
Muy buen tutorial amigo Tim.
Espero que seas buen actor, pues yo soy muy buen crítico.
Saludos.
Greetings
( )Daniel Broadway November 18th
You remind me of the movie phone guy.
( )Ivanex November 21st
Excelente tutorial Tim
( )excelente……………………
un saludo desde Bolivia
y muchas gracias por el aporte…
fidget November 22nd
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 November 23rd
This one has a bit of camera movement
( )http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xlp1vQWWVM
jordy November 25th
Not bad…the movement is pretty miniscule though. But overall not bad.
( )JW November 27th
cool tut, what sucks is the $9 per month, when it all used to be free. Nothing lasts. Nothing.
( )CJW November 28th
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 December 3rd
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
( )Jose Salvatierra December 4th
Really awesome tutorial. Congratulations, and thanks a lot!
( )Vikash Verma December 20th
Great Tutorial….:) But you need to go slow…. U were speaking too fast buddy…..
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