Regenerate Like A “Time Lord” From Dr. Who
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: After Effects, VCP's Optical Flares, and Trapcode Particular
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Run Time: 59:21 min
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating
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.
Tutorial
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By Tom Ellingsen
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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can i suggest combining this with trapcode shine, it creates a much more screen accurate result!
(and possibly tone down the flares)
riftmaster
Riftmaster: I wasn’t initially going for a screen-accurate effect, but rather get inspired by the show and do my own thing :)
ah, ok. I am not putting the effect down or anything (because i think it looks awesome)!
riftmaster
This seriously just made my day.
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
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.
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!
Nice beard ! Nice tut ! I wiil try this with my friend beard :D
Many thanks for this tutorial. My kids are huge Dr Who fans. I can’t wait to get to work using this with them
Glad to be of help, man!
Artig å se noen nordmenn her! Men du burde uten tvil laget tre null-objects med tracking data… :)
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 :)
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!
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.
LOVE THIS TUTORIAL!!
It’s my favorite one!!!
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