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Regenerate Like A “Time Lord” From Dr. Who

Regenerate Like A “Time Lord” From Dr. Who

Tom Ellingsen on Nov 3rd 2011 with 16 comments
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In this tutorial, we’ll be creating a regeneration effect, inspired by the Doctor Who TV show. I say inspired by, because it’s not screen-accurate, but we’ll be using AE’s built-in tools, alongside some stock footage, VCP’s Optical Flares and Trapcode Particular to pull off a pretty convincing regeneration.

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By Tom Ellingsen

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A Norwegian freelancer from Lofoten. Tom has worked on several projects, including feature films, short films and music videos. He has a strong passion for visual effects, and their necessity in telling a story.  

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Discussion 16 Comments

  1. riftmaster says:
    November 3, 2011 at 9:45 am

    can i suggest combining this with trapcode shine, it creates a much more screen accurate result!
    (and possibly tone down the flares)
    riftmaster

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    • Tom Ellingsen says:
      November 4, 2011 at 4:40 am
      Author

      Riftmaster: I wasn’t initially going for a screen-accurate effect, but rather get inspired by the show and do my own thing :)

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      • riftmaster says:
        November 4, 2011 at 4:18 pm

        ah, ok. I am not putting the effect down or anything (because i think it looks awesome)!

        riftmaster

  2. nick says:
    November 3, 2011 at 9:48 am

    This seriously just made my day.

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  3. Simon says:
    November 3, 2011 at 10:09 am

    Instead of wasting so much time on key frames to position the flares and particles, i suggest you use the built in Tracker Controls, it would have saved you a lot of time. Very easy to use. Very cool particles by the way. It was a great tutorial, thanks

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    • Tom Ellingsen says:
      November 4, 2011 at 4:41 am
      Author

      Thanks for the tip. However, experience tells me that AE’s built in tracker seldom gets it right, which is why I opted out from using it.

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      • Simon says:
        November 5, 2011 at 3:39 pm

        I have also had a few issues with the built in tracker, but after some practice it gets the job done. You just have to pick the right spots to track. I strongly recommend The Foundry’s Cameratracker. It is the most awesome plug-in i’ve ever encountered, it saves you the trouble with that crappy manual tracking and does the job for you. You should check it out!

        thanks again!

  4. Wolkeris says:
    November 3, 2011 at 10:26 am

    Nice beard ! Nice tut ! I wiil try this with my friend beard :D

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  5. Lee says:
    November 3, 2011 at 11:11 am

    Many thanks for this tutorial. My kids are huge Dr Who fans. I can’t wait to get to work using this with them

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  6. LovundProduction says:
    November 4, 2011 at 5:04 pm

    Artig å se noen nordmenn her! Men du burde uten tvil laget tre null-objects med tracking data… :)

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    • Tom Ellingsen says:
      November 4, 2011 at 7:27 pm
      Author

      Jepp, det er kanskje sant, men som jeg skrev i kommentaren min over, har jeg dårlig erfaring med tracking inni AE, og valgte heller den litt lengre veien :)

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      • Oliver Banasiak says:
        November 7, 2011 at 6:42 am

        Jag tror han menar att du ska lägga all positions data på 3 null objekt och sen parent allt du ska ha till respektive null! Så hade jag gjort, då jag inte heller gillar AEs tracking, den är dålig!

        Tack för en underbar tut, hälsningar från Sverige!

  7. Sudhir says:
    November 5, 2011 at 4:45 am

    Mr Ellingsen has outdone himself yet again. You sir should get an AEUTUTSPLUS Super Gold badge on your profile page :p

    Thanks for sharing and yeah, nice beard :D .

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  8. Ivan Savkov says:
    November 15, 2011 at 9:58 am

    LOVE THIS TUTORIAL!!
    It’s my favorite one!!!

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  9. Wayne Heywood says:
    November 25, 2011 at 11:52 am

    Hi, great tut.. I just wanted to add a suggestion that I think everyone could benefit from if I may.

    As people have mentioned, the tracker isn’t the best route to take in this particular comp. So keyframing would have been my choice as well… However, there is still a way to use only one set of keyframes.

    You could keyframe three lights (renamed to Emitter) then both Optical Flares and Particular could use the information for each instance. :)

    Still, great use of particular and the custom flare creation makes this a nice tutorial

    More please :)

    Wayne

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