After Effects Invasion

[sonyfan919]

sweeet!

[AEl3lack]

nice green screen =)

[yourtiy]

why would you keep walking after the first explosion o.O

[SYIMBIOTE]

kinda funny

[jimp1102]

This is the most original use of the Kramer tutorial I've seen in a LONG time! Kudos to you for not just doing what original tutorial tells you to do. And it was done really well to boot! Great Job. Really.

[Branzx]

WOW NICE! and good reaction 5stars!!!!!:) lolz

[plokoon12]

Nice Explosion! Where did ya get 'em?

[shadow1up]

how you do the frame movies like i have photoshop adovebut i dont know how to accest the movie making thing and is there eny video tutorials ?

[leslanfear]

That sounds like an interesting question... but I'm not sure what you mean. What do you mean by freme movies?

[shadow1up]

k i mean like when u wwere making that movie did you had to cut the clip like in frames like on lil parts,...i hope u know wut i mean like frames that lasted 1 second each

[leslanfear]

Gotcha.. I used Adobe After Effects to do the effects, and yes that program allows you to make changes frame by frame. You can do some basic video editing in Photoshop, but only in CS3. Photoshop isn't a great tool for video to date. I recommend After Effects.

[shadow1up]

k thanks dude for all

[MountainMan247]

lol nice

[spawn10101]

how did you make the space ship affect

[FilmCryptic]

Looks to me to be the droid starfighter from star wars. Probably (not necessarily) downloaded off a resource site.

[666MagicMan666]

thats the coolest one ive seen, you see people copying the original (if you;ve sen it) all the time, but this one had a twist lol, good job

[cycoboodah]

you could lighten actors from behind...

[DoomedCat]

wow cool, is adobe after effects very difficult to use? Did you use green screens (or whatever they're called)to make this?

[leslanfear]

After Effects definitely has a learning curve, but you can find all the training you need online. Check out creativecow(dot)net and videocopilot(dot)net for some awesome tutorials. This original green screen footage was from a chroma tutorial on a product from Video Copilot.

[DoomedCat]

awesome thanks for the information

[xwulfd]

did they used green screen?

[leslanfear]

yes

[xwulfd]

thanks i just want to ask a nooby quest... why need green? why not other colors? im sure i saw blue tho but most of them use green~~ thanks again

[leslanfear]

Blue is actually the furthest color from skin tone and was originally the chroma color of choice. Any color can be used as a chroma screen. Say for instance you need your actors to wear green in the scene, you obviously wouldn't want to use a green screen. I've seen situations on DVD special features where they use bright pink for their chroma. Just use the color that best suits your needs. Just make sure to evenly light the backdrop.

[xwulfd]

oh so you mean we need colors that away from human skin for example to easily crop the human out and put it in the explosion scene? ~ cool thanks

[leslanfear]

Yes, except it's not exactly cropping them out. Keying is taking the color used for the background and making an animated matte out of it. Using programs like After Effects, that have very powerful keying tools like keylight, this can be as simple as making an eyedropper selection.

[thegunslinger3k]

Use trapcode's particular, it is 3rd party but works natively in afx

[kevinsawesomeness]

meh trapcode particular isn't bad

[Dousch]

looks like a real movie

[Matice21]

Damn G that was raw as hell!!!

[Thornquist]

videocopilt?

[leslanfear]

you got it

[leslanfear]

Particle Illusion 3

[KillerKahuna]

awsome but I'm still searching the web to find an answer for how to make fire in After effects :S

[leslanfear]

these are stock explosions. I guess you could make fire out of some obscure effect cocktail in AE, but the better option is particles. Particle Illusion is a great product and works really well with After Effects.

[KillerKahuna]

and where do I get these particles ? I'm new to AE :S

[Hotdog9836]

not bad

[dolekjole]

cool