The FX Movie (A Tribute To Visual Effects)

[srOLDSKULL]

Make a tutorial man!

[TheAndrewJumpen]

How you did Door..from quantum leap?

[5hc4mRob]

u should make a tutorial on how to do this

[IveGotUrOuts]

well done!

[Xylokaine]

You used After Effects for everything, even the titles? That's amazing. I have After Effects CS4 and even though I was happy with making titles in Premiere Pro CS4, I'm gonna try AE now. What version did you use?

[jakemathew]

I used AE for everything except for the 3D "FX Movie" logo. For that, I used Cinema 4D.

[Optics233]

The quote in the beginning should probably say "visual effects" - Special effects are things done ON set such as explosions squibs, visual effects are things done in post.

[jakemathew]

Well, my movie was a tribute to effects in general, whether its done on set or in post. And I couldn't change the quote as Laurence Fishburne said "special" and not "visual". He was talking about the Matrix movies when he said it, which had most of the effects done in post. Maybe special effects and visual effects can be used interchangeably?

[BLAKERZ91]

If you could do a Spider-Man type of FX film that would be really cool.

[jakemathew]

What do you mean by "Spider-man type of FX" You mean having webbing shoot out of my wrists?

[BLAKERZ91]

Yeah like a fan film or something. If you can do these effects you could be spider-man.

[TheMovieEditor]

Nice job, very cool. just needed better looking lightsabers, i cant stand the preset look.

[jakemathew]

what needs to be improved in the lightsabers? the color?

[TheMovieEditor]

Extend the saber out, work on the glow, and the masking is a little off, you can see the prop at times.

Great job on everything, I just thought the lightsabers needed work. i realize its not a "lightsaber movie", but i think they werent to the standards of your other effects. You can use Ryan Weibers clash effect, its easy to import in after effects, and adds to the effect alot(he also has a good flicker effect, both are extremely easy and good, just drag and click!)

[TheMovieEditor]

Check out the saber work in my kids video, and I spent little time on it. The colors arent perfect on mine, Ive definately done much better, but it will give you example of masking quality versus using the preset(I dont like it)

[jakemathew]

Where can I get Ryan Weibers clash effect?

[renjida19]

is the blue text at the end a reference to The Shining?

[HSVHamburgHandball14]

how did you make that 3d text at the begginning????????please tell me, is it 3d max and can i do it in ae???pls reply, thanks

[jakemathew]

I made the 3D text with a program called Cinema 4D. (a 3D software) I've never used 3D max, but if you have that software, I'm sure its super simple to create extruded text and objects. (as its a very basic technique in all 3D software packages) Just do a google search. If you want to do it in After Effects, do a google search for 3D text in After Effects and there are tons of tutorials on how to create it.

[HSVHamburgHandball14]

thanks alot :)

[bonayef2]

great work 5 stars...

which video editing you use??

thanks

[jakemathew]

Thanks. Didn't use a video-editing program. Used the animation/compositing software Adobe After Effects.

[BlackVen0m]

wow great work!! amazing make a whole movie! ;)

[Doomfrost]

Awesome man! What did you use?

[jakemathew]

Adobe After Effects

[elhackoer]

Sweet!

[iggy35]

Looks better than ever!!!

Awesome work!! 6 billion stars!

[RoLlInGrOcKbUd]

Nice visual effects. Looks good in 720p