New SFX site

santi · Post by **santi** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 1:11 am

Hi there,

I'm a huge fan of SFX from Poland and I have created my own site about effects and amateur moviemaking.
Well, there's one little problem - the whole stuff is in polish. I was thinking about creating english version (SFX part only) so I'd like to ask you to take a look at my site and tell if you'd be interested in some of my tutorials (some of them you may know from english SFX sites but most of them are my own work) Forget about language for a moment: there's a lot of images and few mpg clips.

http://sfx.internetdsl.pl/efekty_spis.html
(direct link to effects)

(sorry for my english, I'm still working on it)

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 3:15 am

looks interesting but i would prefer English to be able to get a full handle on things

U.S.Amateurfilmaker · Post by **U.S.Amateurfilmaker** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 4:58 am

Hey there nice effects! Yeah, english would be good, I'd love to read the site, epecially since it looks so interesting. I know a few things in Polish, but not nearly enough to even begin to understand it. lol

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 6:24 am

I cannot understand a God damm word there

then again i do speak Australian

santi · Post by **santi** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:26 am

You should have been read something in albanian

U.S.Amateurfilmaker wrote:I know a few things in Polish

I wonder what kind of words

Well, I'm thinking very serious about translating these tutotorials. There's more of them under constrution.
I discovered a solution how to make lightsaber in AE without spending hours in keframing. Sadly - it doesn't work well with DV format

Anyway: thanks for your opinions guys. If one of this tutoriali look specialy interesting let me know so I'll translate it first.

BTW Grant: I saw UDDS. MASTERPIECE!:D (but the quality.....

)

Themovieman44 · Post by **Themovieman44** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 1:57 pm

Hey thats some great stuff definetly translate it man! Also you should submit your link to the Web Links section here to help people out.

santi · Post by **santi** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 9:18 pm

Hello again...

I've just finished translating first tutorial. You can find it here:

http://sfx.internetdsl.pl/eng/predator.html

I'll be gratefull for every word of constructive critcism and sugestions. If you found any mistakes or errors - please let me know. My english is still far away from perfection.

Santi

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 12:10 am

looks good my man, keep up the translations please

santi · Post by **santi** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 12:38 am

Thanks:) That's what I needed!

Question: is there any sense in makin JAFLT (Just Another F***g Lightsaber Tutorial) ?

I have few good ideas about FX from Matrix, X-Men,(very popular on this forum

AFAIK) Predator and Terminator 2 but they are "under construction" - I don't have footage good enough to make the screen shots.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 1:56 pm

hey i think all tutorials even on the same topic are great as there is normally always something to learn or just a different example to see

Post by **Matt** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 3:32 pm

Your site is great ! Translate everything, even the light sabre tutorial. As Grant said, all tutorials are useful even if you have seen the effects done before.

Keep up the good work.

santi · Post by **santi** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 3:59 pm

Thank you guys. I'm begining to love this place.

My new light sabre tutorial I'll make in english first.

You should like it (if you had a good lighting equipment and at least DV (3CCD recomended). I works quite good in close angles and if the sabre doesn't move to fast.

And here's another clip: http://sfx.internetdsl.pl/video/liquid_man.mpg

XeFx309 · Post by **XeFx309** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 7:39 pm

For some reason, that site loads up REALLY REALLY slow for me..

santi · Post by **santi** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 7:49 pm

Not my fault. The server i provided by TPSA - Polish monopolist in telecomunication. This really sucks, but now I have no choice 'cause I don't have to pay for this. Maybe I'll create a mirror on some free server.

XeFx309 · Post by **XeFx309** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 7:55 pm

Do you a tutorial on making a Predator with just Premiere and photoshop?

santi · Post by **santi** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 9:50 pm

I think it's possible (in theory) to do but I need a little time for tests. I promise to work on it.

EDIT:

I have it in 720 x 480 size in Quicktime format and in WMV format. But the file sizes are pretty big.
Where can I host it?

seantree · Post by **seantree** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:48 am

tried your site, but get broken links on the images etc.. I'm using mozilla, does anyone else get that problem?

XeFx309 · Post by **XeFx309** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 1:12 am

santi wrote:OK, I made some tests (I love challenges like this one ) and I've almost found the solution to one little problem with blurring filmstrip. Maybe tommorow I'll try to do final tutorial.

This is about the predator one with photoshop and premiere one, right? if so, sweeet!

santi · Post by **santi** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 5:36 pm

No problem. As I said: I love this kind of challenges and this is one of my favorites effects.
Now I'm also workin' on few Terminator effects (at least one can be done in Premiere and Photoshop). The list of effects to describe is quite long (even much more then on polish version site)

EDIT:

XeFX309, I hope you like it:

http://sfx.internetdsl.pl/eng/predator_ps.html

XeFx309 · Post by **XeFx309** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:26 am

Thanks a lot, looks great. I'll be sure to try it out and use it in upcoming movies that I do make. Also, I noticed the little mention about me, lol thanks.

One question though, I thought I remembered a little mention in the After Affects tutorials that you don't need a greenscreen, is there a way around that in this one also? If not, it doesn't matter, it's all good. lol

Thanks!

santi · Post by **santi** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:54 am

FX business requires a little invention, man

Read those hints in the AE tutorial.
-shoot an actor in front of bright wall but use only the strong background light. You need the darkest silhouette as it's possible.
- in AP remove colors (BLACK & WHITE filter), INVERT and increase the contrast using LEVELS filter until you get pure black and white matte.

blue_dirt · Post by **blue_dirt** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 8:57 am

wow, lots of posts. i am interested in the first 2 tutorials, and then also the hologram, and the JEŹDZIEC BEZ GŁOWY. your tut's are awesome dude!

santi · Post by **santi** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 1:31 pm

OK, I was just wondering what tut should be transladted next

BTW: JEŹDZIEC BEZ GŁOWY means "Headless Horseman" (free lesson of polish, no extra charge

)

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:42 pm

Looks good! I cant read polish though lol ill check it out when more is translated I have a basic idea of what it says becuase i know how to do the effects but i cant see how you explained it since its not in english lol- Only other comment i have is the images take forever to load for some reason
EDIT: You forgot to translate this part:
I wreszcie finał. Tworzymy ostatnią już kompozycję, nazwijmy ją FINAL. Wstawiamy do niej tło (tylną płytę) oraz kompozycję MASKA 3. Możemy ją umieścić pod spodem lub wyłączyć jej widzialność i dalej postępujemy tak podobnie jak przy Człowieku Widmo czyli:
just thought id point out you missed a piece :p

santi · Post by **santi** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 7:00 pm

Thanks! It's fixed. I just forgot to delete this part. Everything is translated.

Next stop: Headless Guy!