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Make An Amazing Motion Reactant Flame – Tutsplus Premium

on Jan 24th 2012 with 6 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects and Flame Footage
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Run Time: 32:21 min
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Using just a few video elements of torch flames, we composite a burning hand by using a series of null objects and expressions to drive a time lagged displacement effect to simulate fire burning from a moving source. We use the Puppet tool for the distortion and throw on some tracked lighting effects and a displacement map for the Heat. This principle can be used to add realistic, fluid motion to any tracked object.

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  • h110d

    pretty nice considering that you use a real flame footage and adapt it. but it need a bit more carefulll at the final result. if you look it the reflex of the flame is a glass, but the camera lentils dont make that kind of glass reflect. its looking bad considering the rest is pretty nice and ok flame. just look at 06:00 seconds. the ghost of ur hand is showing and the light of the flame is to persistent. is just an opinion. i dont care if u delete or not, im just saying. for the first impression, the ghost hand, the flame illumination show right in front of the eyes and that looks bad. it just need a bit tune, just all.

    regards,

    • http://www.youtube.com/wrenthereaper Wren Weichman
      Author

      I think by “ghost hand” you’re referring to the shadow of my hand and arm on the wall. That was there from a lamp that was sitting on the ground. As for the rest of what you said… I am utterly confused. I really have no idea what you mean, sorry. I do know that if you move the hand too much or too fast, the effect does break as artifacts from the deformation start to show up.

  • Volkan

    TheReaper come back :) nice effect.

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

    Its good, nice job, but why is premium? its not advanced tutorial, i think you can make better than this.

  • Lyndon

    Cool, I’m interested in checking out your techniques! I’m sure there is something to be learned here :)

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