Wolverine claws and other CG special effects

[Ilovejesus251]

weird



[deltacompony12]

this is beast dude

[taoistflyer]

@deltacompony12 Thanks for watching.

[deltacompony12]

@taoistflyer no prob man

[asyon2vega]

i guess most of the effects are from adobe after affects but what is the 3D program you used?

[taoistflyer]

@asyon2vega I've never used after affects, I'm more of a max fan, but i like some of the videos of the new after affects mat line capabilities and would love to try them out.

[dbzdjt]

claws at o:54

[pantibeni]

Nice video! LOL! XD What's that program's name????

[pantibeni]

LOL! GREAT! XD :D Nice What's that program's name????

[TheGavrilovAlexander]

CKY?

[taoistflyer]

@TheGavrilovAlexander yes, i love them and think more people should hear them.

[TheGavrilovAlexander]

@taoistflyer I know, best group >D

[Scarypair92]

Awesome effects, but bad resolution sadly :/

[taoistflyer]

@Scarypair92 thanks for watching,

a lot of these clips wear filmed and animated around 10 years ago, so the resolution was really low, i was either using a web cam to film them, or a handy cam and a video capture card, i usually had to capture the video at 320 by 240 ( all my computer could handle at the time).

nowadays i am able to do better, check out my real world tron light cycle video, it was all rendered in HD.

[Scarypair92]

@taoistflyer cool, never the less, awesome, epic effects!

[thatplankguy]

its like a bad pink floyd music video lmao!

[purplecoathanger]

the chess is freakin awesumm :D

[taoistflyer]

@purplecoathanger thanks, it was a fun one to do, I always wanted to do more with it.

[houdini3dLegend]

0:55 FAIL WITH THE ALPHA CHANNEL ,such a good anim but this destroyed it....

[taoistflyer]

@houdini3dLegend No ALPHA channel was used, i did this more then 10 years ago, what you are seeing is a reflection of the CG model of my hand that i built so that my knuckles would reflect on the blades. it just so happened to match up in such a way that it gives the illusion that the blades are see through when in fact you are seeing reflections of my cg knuckles.

Funny fact: that background plate was filmed as frame by frame pictures because i didn't have a video camera at the time.

[nuparu7991]

wtf is with the talking sperm at 1:38 ????

[taoistflyer]

@nuparu7991 lol just an old animation test

[niteflash123]

0:52 for the wolverine claws!

[afghan925]

hey taoistflyer@ would u plzzzz help me .... if u give me ur email address and u can tell me step by step what to do and by the way where did u download the software from :) many thanx

[SuperGaminGirl]

@afghan925 It was done with 3d studio max, photoshop and a lot of time.

[Ice8Fire]

u can edit. good job. next step is buying a better camera

[taoistflyer]

@Ice8Fire Thanks, almost all the clips are nearly 10 years old and wear filmed with a web cam, it wouldn't even do video so the claws and spoon effects actually have frame by frame live action plates.

However the clips at 0:28 0:55 wear filmed with a canon XL1for a TV show

and the clip at 2:37 was filmed for a movie with one of the first Gorge Lucas 24p HD digital camera. I use an HD camera now, check out my latest video "RC superman" , I have him flying through cg rings like in superman 64

[Xy1on]

wtf did i just watch

[BrianMastermind]

very good effects...just one thing....you've probably already know this but wolverine's claws here look transpaent

[taoistflyer]

@BrianMastermind thanks for watching. I made CG finger knuckle models that are placed over the image of the hand, i was hoping it would make it look like the claws wear reflecting the skin of the knuckles, but the camera angle makes it look like the claws are see through, if you pause it and look at the bottom claw you can see that it is the knuckle reflecting on the blade, but the top claws reflection matches up exactly to what you would see if the claws wear see through.

[z3rotd]

nice CKY!!!

[Croes86]

how do u get this program?

[taoistflyer]

you can buy it online used for a pretty good price.

Also if you are in collage you can get a good student discount on the most recent version.

[Croes86]

allright tnx

[TheJimyyy]

mes ses vrai que ses creatif jdoit avouer pour sa je leve mon chapeau

[brandonse167]

how long did it take you

[taoistflyer]

Some of them took as little as half an hour, others I worked on for hours and hours late at night. some of these are more then 10 years old.

[cselvakumar007]

nice effects cool

[Bartsk84272]

woah! nice effects!

[michaellh101]

hvat is the program u used called

[taoistflyer]

3D studio max

[FrogCityVideos]

Very impressive.

[1zymn1]

wow, this is some awesome stuff, i wish i knew how to do all this, but i only use Blender 3D and After Effects. haha

plus i'd really like to see a higher video quality version of this...

[taoistflyer]

You can do some really cool stuff with blender and after effects. They are 2 programs that I still have not learned to use.

[jmk800]

the chess one was awesome

[hakerche0000]

Nice ones! You worked on some big movies too? I am also doing special effects, but in Cinema 4D. I understand also the technical stuff about other 3d software. I would be glad to have a conversation about 3d animation with you.

[taoistflyer]

Thanks hacker I appreciate it, send me a private message sometime. i'd love to talk 3d

[SecurityBreach001]

your effects rocks! but your camera sucks i'm sorry, you are going to my favorites anyway :D

[taoistflyer]

LOL you are so right, some of these wear filmed with a web cam.

in fact some of these are still photos with animation on top. a few of them are more then 10 years old.

I'm glad you enjoyed them.

[twitchd8]

That's amazing! yeah, I've wanted to get a copy, but that software is WAY out of my league price-wise... :-( but yeah, amazing stuff! I love the chess board chaos at the end... lol

[taoistflyer]

if you ever become a student at any college you can buy this software at a hugely discounted price.

it can be as little as a few hundred dollars.

[Valo1378]

good effects man...but its an amazing song, not to many people really seem to like or even know about the sweet sounds of CKY

[taoistflyer]

the song outdoes the effects any day of the week.

I love CKY, I think if everyone listened to a little CKY every once in a while the world would be a much better place for it.

I need to find them and post links to their music and websites on all of my videos, anything i can do to help promote them.

[Valo1378]

Amen, man I'm trying to get alot of people into them too, I burnt a bunch of copies of Carver City and passed them out to random people. More power to ya

[DatoFarid]

nice one man.

5 stars from me mate.

[jashchad]

that was pretty impressive stuff, im guess u went to school for all that or did u learn on ur own? either way it was very nice!!!

[taoistflyer]

Thank you, I learned it on my own. 3d studio max is really user friendly.

[charliehawtin]

the one at 1:37 looks like sperm

[taoistflyer]

that's exactly what it is, a talking sperm from an animation i did years ago.

[ttrboi125le]

that was great

[a100nick]

lol talking sperm 1:38

[maxmusavi]

hi that was awesome!!!! cann u tell me how can i eddit my videos in 3ds max??? plzzz!!!

[taoistflyer]

click on rendering then select environment from the drop down, wear it says background click browse and select your video file. This will make the video the background when you render your final animation, but it wont show up in the view port window, to get it to show up in the view port window, click on view, then select viewport background, select the video, click the setting that says match bmp and also select animate background, then do your animation, then render it.

[ballerofpaintball]

wat program do yuo use i can only do gunshots and sword fights with windows movie maker and fireworks cs3

[taoistflyer]

These wear all dun using 3D studio max

it is a very user friendly animation program, it is the same program that was used to do the FXs on hollow man and gladiator, although they had some custom plug ins programed. You should try to get a copy, it's a lot of fun.

[biostu]

Hey if you are interested in model ships, see black pearl model, and black pearl 2

[6cmcnc6]

that was awsome, i like the bending spoon the best

[taoistflyer]

Thank you, it was one of my first special effects to do, It came out better then I expected

[biohazardjmc2]

exellent video :Dude...

[taoistflyer]

Thanks, I love doing cg effects

[wewillrock89]

you have sci fi channel beat

[taoistflyer]

lol,

although I love the si fi channel, i haven't had cable in more then 10 years, I've never even seen an episode of the sopranos, it's sad i know.

[wewillrock89]

dude ive never had cable, i have antena, but my mawmaw is a sci fi fanatic

[nobbingh]

wow! that´s really cool! i made a vid with real movie and animation too. (but i didn´t do the animaton). but yours looks much better! hoe did you do the grat shadows?? really cool!

[taoistflyer]

Thank you very much, If you use 3d studio max their is a texture called mat shadow. Build the basic 3d outline of an object like a table, then put the mat shadow texture on it. Mat shadow takes whatever the background video is and uses it as a texture. So the cg shadows get cast on the real texture in a 3d manner. If you want a further explanation i would be glad to help.

[nobbingh]

cool! thx! i´m not sure, if i understood the details (i´m german), but i think, i got the main idea! so, you have to bulid each object (like a coach or a chair) in the programm... sounds like a lot of work! but really interessting! thx

an other question: are you able to put an animation in a film with moving kamera? is there a (free) software, that recognizes the moves of the cam, an puts it in the animation cam? know what i mean? would be glad about an answer!

[taoistflyer]

Thats correct you need to build each object, you don't have to make them very complex, as long as they have the same basic outline. 3d studio max can do camera tracking but it is very time consuming. You have to set up tracking points before you film, then you tell studio max how far apart the points are and it tries to track the camera movement. Camera tracking is very hard, i always do it 1 frame at a time.

[taoistflyer]

It took A long time. These wear clips from animations i have been doing for years. Every second of footage represents about 5 or 10 of minuets work. Some took longer to do then others but each scene took a few hours.

[TirkaTirka218]

some amazing work dude, i'd love to be able to do that as a living

[JeanWinchester]

Excellent work.

[blueblur66]

awsome! What softwere?

[taoistflyer]

Thank you

It's all 3d studio max. "I love studio max"

Sum textures wear painted in Photoshop, Editing by premier pro.

Music CKY "camp kill yourself" Sink into the underground.