Nightcrawler style bamfing teleport test effect

Teleport Visual effects Test Shot for "Inner Demons" a webs series currently in Pre-Production created in after effects and 3dsmax. Camera and Sound by Tommy Larkin, VFX and Running by Ryan Mccalla. There are at least 6 layers that go into each "Bamf Effect" in this shot which are the rotoscoped actor, skeleton, skin smoke, skeleton Smoke, spark ember, Dust particles which are all comped onto a blank plate in the shot we had to stitch together 3 different plates to make it look like 1 continuous shot. Took roughly 2 weeks of off and on work (including rendering time)

This will be sparky's Signature Effect

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Teleport
• Effect
• Test
• nightcrawler
• 3dsmax
• aftereffects
• final
• cut
• pro
• VFX
• CGI
• krakatoa
• After
• Effects
• porters
• x-men
• visual
• effects
• computer
• graphics
• film

[cecilbgnome]

yeah, used 3dsmax's Particle flow to set up the particles and rendered it with Krakatoa - there is a skeleton and muscles all there but it happens so quick you dont see all the layers break apart... next time i guess.

[InnerDemonsTheSeries]

Haha thanks mate, yeah I did this test ages ago lol.

Ps: this is Ryan, this was my old channel before I made the Inner Demons one.

[InnerDemonsTheSeries]

Thanks for all the kind words gang... :) sorry for not replying back to you all sooner (I cant get onto my cecilbgnome account anymore for some reason since youtube linked it to e-mails)

[InnerDemonsTheSeries]

@SamsportParkour - I don't know what you mean install manually? I have always just used the installer and its worked fine - have not used maxpluginhelper sorry :(

@johnnyordenanafilm - its a few different sound effects all mixed together, the main sound used is the opening of an umbrella to get that "Bamf" like sound.

@L1LTERRA - I actually did fall off the table, it ended up being the best take for the effect so we used it lol.

[InnerDemonsTheSeries]

Hey guys - just in case you have not seen it we have another channel over at innerdemonstheseries on youtube now.

@argarsad - you could probably do this in Maya, I havnt used maya before so am not sure how to go about setting up the particle system to do the effect - used Pflow to drive it all in 3dsmax.

@parkourizfun - Sure we will do a tut once we get the all the episodes out, It's fairly complex though to do and you will need a good understanding of PFlow in max.

[Argarsad]

So are all of the 6 layers created in 3ds max? if so, is it possible to create those layers in maya? because i heard that 3ds max is not usable on mac (i use mac), thx

[enriquelmx]

is more like Azazel teletransportation , is so perffect, i like it

[orika001]

@cecilbgnome this is awesome, much better that holywood effects

[Aphterdark]

fantastic.