Special Effects!! another one of my special effects video.

minilem · Post by **minilem** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:46 pm

Here Is my Newest Special Effects Test/Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGM6iVI6Z0c

kene555 · Post by **kene555** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:19 pm

That was well done!

Where'd you get the sound effect?

One way to improve this would be to fade the smoke trail immediately after the explosion. It hangs around too long.

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:55 pm

Good!

I'd improve it by slightly less camera shake (a hint would usually do but in your case it might just be good to start violently and tame the last few shakes, as opposed to violent shakes and then just stopping suddenly)

Stick some white or something at the top to disguise the cinema bars shaking and all!

And if you really want to play about with it a lot then I'd start the meteor slightly slower so it looks like it speeds up as it gets closer to the camera ('cus of the constant speed and the perspective change it looks a bit like it slows down before impact)

Just my two cents anyway. It's actually very good!

Here's my Particle Illusion fireball fest...

youngfilmmaker · Post by **youngfilmmaker** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:25 am

The clip was well done. Keep it up!

Nba185 · Post by **Nba185** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:17 am

Well done. you should post tutorials here. haha
The program you use is it from videocopilot.com?

minilem · Post by **minilem** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:35 pm

what program? all i used was adobe after affects and particle illusion. thank you all for your feedback

rhys · Post by **rhys** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:39 pm

minilem, it was good, but not very realistic (i hate fire in particle illusion too).
Ornsnack: that looks funny as hell, good job.

Nba185 · Post by **Nba185** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:12 am

minilem wrote:what program? all i used was adobe after affects and particle illusion. thank you all for your feedback

I think you used this program: Action movie essentials. where did you get it from?

youngfilmmaker · Post by **youngfilmmaker** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:24 am

http://www.videocopilot.net/ame_gallery/ame_gallery.htm

Nba185 · Post by **Nba185** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:53 am

yeah thats what i meant but only videocopilot has this?

rhys · Post by **rhys** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:59 am

They made it... why does it matter if only they have it?

Nba185 · Post by **Nba185** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:17 am

I'm saying what are the other choices other than this. I think it is worth the money to buy it from videocopilot compared to other companies like digitaljuice

Clarence · Post by **Clarence** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 3:06 am

That was good, milinem. I think what really caught my eye was the color grading (if you did any). The video had a crisp, contrasted look to it. The sound effect was great.

Like ornsack said, you should put a black matte where the widescreen bars are, so that when you add shake to the video the whole frame doesn't move.

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:04 am

It was a good attempt. I thought the meteor iteself and the smoke trail looked pretty convincing, but after the buildup the explosion wasn't as impressive. The flash lasted too long and the fire was a little hoaky. The blast should be qiuck and maily smoke. Keep up the good work.

Haha, very nice, Ornsack.

Zac · Post by **Zac** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:11 am

yeh, the initial explosion looked good along with the cam shake, so did the meteor but the smoke trail hung around for too long and the fire at the end looked like cr**.
but fix up those and you have yourself a pretty impressive effect.

minilem · Post by **minilem** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:25 pm

thankyou for your feedback. but i didnt use action movie essentials in this

i only use action movie essentials for blood and thats all. i make my own muzzle flashes but i didnt use it in this

Magic-Man · Post by **Magic-Man** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:28 am

kool effect, but make sure when you vibrate the camera, put that before the widescreen bar layer because you are shaking that.

sorry if some one has already said this

minilem · Post by **minilem** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:18 pm

i understand what you mean but thats how my footage is captured so i have no choice. other wise i would've seen it and changed it

Jperson · Post by **Jperson** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 6:59 pm

Yuh good. er, a couple of suggestions: 1. After the first explosion there should maybe be another couple of explosions as other things explode (like gas stored in the house or whatever...car in a garage, always makes the explosion cooler, more interesting and mroe realistic). 2. I think that when you do explosions it is always cool to do it from a home video, mobile phone video point of view. E.g. Quite shaky and after the explosion the camera jerks upwards. 3. As well as shaking the camera side ways you could have it blown back a bit.

I should get practising soon for explosions...I'm going to have to blow up Machester Stadium (Old Trafford) soon, looking forward to it, but unsure of what approahc I"m going to take.