After Effects Explosion UPDATED

[loonycarnival]

guy walking is chuck norris

[rambhar1]

guy walking...did not see that shit..

[sotirios23]

Cool Guys don't look at explosions!

[182JeanJean182]

Nice effect dude :)

tuto please ;)

[Gassiba]

R.I.P Headphone users :(



[TheFXGuy]

@Gassiba I use headphones...  Only R.I.P. if you had it too loud in the first place.

[HystadCinema]

HALF LIFE ROCKET LUNCHER!?!??! :D

[dandeentremont]

What element was the smoke? It kind of looked like "dark smoke," but I'm not certain

[TheFXGuy]

@dandeentremont Im about 80% sure thats right

[UEMstudios]

Lol @ the sound of a Half Life 2 rocket launcher

[TheFXGuy]

@UEMstudios Wait - are... are you the SERIOUSLY the only person who noticed?

Yes, it's the HL2 rocket launcher. I'd forgotten all about that.

[CrzayMazy]

Pretty funny that everyone is asking for a tutorial while this is based on a tutorial in the Action Essentials 2 training section.

[TheFXGuy]

@CrzayMazy It's pretty funny that you think that it's based on the Action Essentials tutorial when it's nothing like it... Bravo, Crzay...

[LegitChopsticks]

@TheFXGuy u got the footage from them though

[TheFXGuy]

@LegitChopsticks I got the frickin background from them! The background can be anything, and the effect will still come out looking the same! Christ, how many times do I have to explain this?

[LegitChopsticks]

@TheFXGuy srry. but ur cool:D

[TheFXGuy]

@LegitChopsticks Sry for getting kind of mad, but everyone says the same thing and it gets REALLY annoying after awhile.

[Untitled10official]

Dude, if you use a tut or someone elces footage, credit them, this is creative Commons, not public domain.

[TheFXGuy]

@Untitled10official Did not use a tut, and its stock footage which I purchased, allowing me to use it in any way I see fit.

So I see no technical need to credit anyone.

[Untitled10official]

@TheFXGuy I have action essentials 2 as well, don't play coy with me.

read the PDFs in full.

or not, I don't care that much.

[TheFXGuy]

@Untitled10official Wait... Did you really read all the way through the PDF? You have to be the most patient person I know...

[Untitled10official]

@TheFXGuy Yeah, I did, I actually care about copy right after a close run in with Microsoft over it, almost got sued :L

[TheFXGuy]

@Untitled10official Whoa, that sucks. Good thing it was "almost".

I care about it, but I have yet to use it in a for-profit project. If I did, I would definitely read it. Until then, reading the action essenials 2 license info isn't exactly at the top of my todo list.

Mind me asking what you were almost sued for?

[Untitled10official]

@TheFXGuy not sure if I can disclose publicly, but Yeah, just watch out.

also, I am in the process of setting up a new website based on motion and still graphics, and I am looking for experienced moderators and contributers, so yeah if you are interested, feel free to PM me.

[RussianCommie666]

good. but the only problem which makes most videos bad, is that there is too much fake camera shake. just tone it down a wee bit. :P

[eskimo810]

I'm not going to rag on this too much, cause it's pretty amazing, but please less bloom if you're trying to make it look realistic.

[TheFXGuy]

@eskimo810 I was going for more cinematic than realistic, and thanks.

[ParadisePictures2010]

awesome... but i would add some orange light from the fireball

[coMpLekS1]

that's so badass... nice man.

[GamersHeavenTV]

Tutorial please :(

[PMAPN]

I love how the explosion worked fine but I love how the lady keep walking with the trash.

[streamstudios]

hey isnt that the video that came with action essentials 2?? yah, it is. good job that was pretty awesome i made a video like it but i think urs is a little better... nice work

[tom97clip]

Chuck Norris can do this with Movie Maker!

[joshuathejedi]

Haha, the dude keeps walking. He's like: "Oh, I've seen this all before..." Lolz.

[MRARROYOonutube]

you are #4

[TheFXGuy]

@MRARROYOonutube What?

[EuroUniTV]

@TheFXGuy Of the most best After Effects Explosion Videos he saw...

[TheFXGuy]

@EuroUniTV Ah. I thought he meant with something on youtube, like #4 viewed that day.

[TheFXGuy]

@flashdash524 I was originally going to add a person firing, but I had already rendered it.

[123PETH]

OMFG!

THAT'S AMAZING!

[DBZKaiGoku]

LOL i love how the guy on the right keeps walkin as if nothing happened XD

[Clown5336]

OMG

[Safegold008]

3 disliker, are soo dumb to use AE

[TheFunniestName]

Nice, the smoke is a little bit to dark tho

[DintXNA]

"Cool guys don't look at explosions..."

[TheFXGuy]

@DintXNA I was wondering how long it would take for someone to say that :)

[123natenate]

lol, great effect.

[MsLyricsGurl]

Thumbs UP if you think the guy walking was a total bad ass and just kept walking ;)

[TheFXGuy]

@MsLyricsGurl haha

[MLGShadowConspiracy]

@MsLyricsGurl Lmfao it was actually really good until he kinda just didn't notice a huge ass explosion behind him. He must have been listening to screamo much? Obviously he's deaf and blind XD

[rob3rtrismyhr]

@MsLyricsGurl cool guys don't look at explosions.

youtube it

[vistakillerhacks]

Wow, nice one!

[PyromanBeatz]

Nice :)

[PyromanBeatz]

tutorial ?

[TheFXGuy]

@PyromanBeatz possibly... I had a lot of trial and error and a lot of luck, but I might reopen the project and try to throw a tutorial together.

[TheFlyingTiger129]

@TheFXGuy Have you made one now?

[MultiRoastbeef]

its so bad that its good

[TheFXGuy]

@MultiRoastbeef Do you mean that it sucks or it's good? Because let's see you make something better.

[cocopops149]

@TheFXGuy Hey! Awesome video it looks really real. I was hoping you could check out my latest after effects vid please and tell me what you think? It would mean a lot to mean.

[TheFXGuy]

@cocopops149 thnx. i'll check it out.

btw, it would mean a lot to mean? lol

[cocopops149]

@TheFXGuy Woops, typo.

[TheFXGuy]

@cocopops149 lol

[yankeeesrule41]

WOW, very realiztic. love the guy in bottom right just walkin ha

[ddude50001]

so apparently the hobo is death and immune to explosive propelled debris?

[ddude50001]

so apparently the hobo is death and immune to explosive propelled debris?

[LargeFaraj]

is there a tutorial??

[TheFXGuy]

@LargeFaraj

No, but eventually I'll get around to making one. I have a lot to do until summer.

[BuzzyBe]

One thing that could really enhance this shot is adding some light effects from the explosion onto the scene.

I think you know what I mean.

[vfxworld]

videocopilot did a great job.

Come on. Do something that comes out of your own mind. A personal project.

[TheFXGuy]

@vfxworld

what are you talking about? i didn't follow any tutorials for this. I did use action essentials, but sorry if I don't wanna kill myself shooting my own stock footage (I would make a huge explosion).

The background clip is from videocopilot, but if I did all of the effects, how is this by videocopilot?

[vfxworld]

@TheFXGuy footage, lensflare, explosion, meteor... Okay, the color was done by you.

You could at least have been shooting your own footage. That would look a bit more. uhm. individual...

[TheFXGuy]

@vfxworld

Everything except for the background was made by me. The Lens Flare was something I added after rendering once just because I wanted to test Optical Flares. If you meant that the lens flare was videocopilot because I used their plugin, does that mean a video that uses particular is made by trapcode?

If you actually own action essentials, you would know you don't just drag and drop an explosion onto a composition and BOOM you're done.

[vfxworld]

@TheFXGuy right, you change the transfer mode and add a bit of camshake and add a smoke element by videocopilot.

Nothing wrong doing that, but it's nothing... special. It has no special skill to it.

At least yours does not look that crappy as some other gys... But at least shooting your own footage and adding some extra glow and scene interaction could be done..

[TheFXGuy]

@vfxworld

I added way more than just an explosion and smoke.

Anyways, it doesn't matter. Neither of us are going to win this argument, but I guess I can take the last part as a compliment. I've gotten a lot better at manipulating camera motion since this video and, in truth, I didn't actually do that much to it from the first one.

[vfxworld]

@TheFXGuy ye, it looks good. But next time please post a breakdown after your vids.

[TheFXGuy]

@vfxworld won't promise that, but I may.

[kudjo24]

@vfxworld yeah ur an idiot, he made this completely different from kramers tutorial on copilot, much bigger explosion. kramer stressed the use of glow more than this vid, but it still works

[vfxworld]

@kudjo24 men, you don't read. Don't spam me if you didn't even read the comment -.-

[TheFXGuy]

@kudjo24

Thanks for trying to help me out, but he took it back. He was saying that I used the same background clip and VC stock footage.

Again, thanks though. And now I know I have a successful video because people are arguing over it :)

[pokex5454]

to small of a fire

[TheKSProduction]

hmm...dont ever call your videos "perfect" i mean this looks decent and all...but ive seen WAY better. 5/5 btw.

[TheFXGuy]

I figured it'd get more views that way...

[enjoiskate11]

Sweet

[mattydavid13]

nice job, does look alot better!

-Matt

[ADAVIDOLOGIST]

very cool

[DaMackDaddy1]

Nice.