We only had two people for the bad guys, so, for the 6 people or so in the background on that wide shot, we had to lock the camera down and do some cloning. Adding motion was to help sell the effect, as well as help it match the rest of the cinematography, which was almost entirely handheld. That movement was achieved with a random operator on the position.
Gun blast- Good question. the temptation is to make them go slow so that trajectory is very clear. We opted to have the flares on screen for a single frame in most cases sometimes 2 and let the motion blur express the trajectory rather than movement across the frame- not very different from the classic star wars approach.
@moeproductions353 I usually lock my edit before doing any visual effects, even color, but I assemble everything in the same timeline in premiere as I complete the fx shots.
We only had two people to play the Tel-Rac opposition, so that shot was made up of multiple takes. The shot in the edit is just Andrew's foreground plate.
@kwjones30 Concepting in one weekend, through the week, half day shoot the day after thanksgiving, 8 days of post production speckled through full time day job.
1 or 2 frames with a blur on the second frame.. interesting. no wonder i couldn't see the actual beam.. effective. What program did you use Adobe aftereffects? Also what about the weapons? did you make those and how?
I honestly would like to see a follow-up of this with another side by side.. This was really informative... Like at 1:32-what :40 when he he started his white sound attack.. In the lower frame wasn't the camera set? I saw no movement there.. but the upper scene there was plenty of movement added... to enhance the scene? How long were the individual gun blast i.e. how many frames from flare to impact? This was VERY good!
So did you learn your timing threw trial and error? Or was their anything you had that helped? Yeah im asking because i wish to start doing some animations.
We only had two people for the bad guys, so, for the 6 people or so in the background on that wide shot, we had to lock the camera down and do some cloning. Adding motion was to help sell the effect, as well as help it match the rest of the cinematography, which was almost entirely handheld. That movement was achieved with a random operator on the position.
its basically optical flares plus a little stock for impact, its important that they only be on screen for a frame or two.
Gun blast- Good question. the temptation is to make them go slow so that trajectory is very clear. We opted to have the flares on screen for a single frame in most cases sometimes 2 and let the motion blur express the trajectory rather than movement across the frame- not very different from the classic star wars approach.
@moeproductions353 I usually lock my edit before doing any visual effects, even color, but I assemble everything in the same timeline in premiere as I complete the fx shots.
We only had two people to play the Tel-Rac opposition, so that shot was made up of multiple takes. The shot in the edit is just Andrew's foreground plate.
Boom mic ftw!
nicely done!
We figure people will either stick around for a minute for either that, or the philosophical discussion happening. Doesn't matter to us which.
Bottom looks way better, except the last scene (where it looks like the bottom did for the rest of the movie)
@JBantha I enjoy the organic look; a lot of people do.
We did a terrible ninja movie with some similar effects, and sort of learned the hard way on that.
@DelayMoreNo Cinema4d for 3d work, editing in Premiere, color in After Effects.
After effects + VideoCopilot's optical flares. The weapons are just painted air-soft guns.
@Ephisus thanks
@TheLilflames A facsimile of one, yes.
Love bts and informative videos like this.
@kwjones30 Concepting in one weekend, through the week, half day shoot the day after thanksgiving, 8 days of post production speckled through full time day job.
1 or 2 frames with a blur on the second frame.. interesting. no wonder i couldn't see the actual beam.. effective. What program did you use Adobe aftereffects? Also what about the weapons? did you make those and how?
How did you overlay the landed spaceship into your scene? can you do a tutorial on how it was done?
This is pretty much just a matte painting, you can see a breakdown in my last reel, it's the trailer for this channel.
@@Ephisus Oh...i see, thank you letting me know. 👍
@abbeyn0rma1 That's the east side of the chesapeake bay.
I honestly would like to see a follow-up of this with another side by side.. This was really informative... Like at 1:32-what :40 when he he started his white sound attack.. In the lower frame wasn't the camera set? I saw no movement there.. but the upper scene there was plenty of movement added... to enhance the scene? How long were the individual gun blast i.e. how many frames from flare to impact?
This was VERY good!
@LoliRoo That's quite possible.
So did you add the visual effects/colour on after effects after editing on Premiere?
So did you learn your timing threw trial and error? Or was their anything you had that helped?
Yeah im asking because i wish to start doing some animations.
Nevermind thanks found it :).
Why didnt you have actors when filmning at 1.30 ?
LOL!! where!
what program?
You guys are great. Acting is superb. I have a great story line for a short. Contact me and we'll produce it together.
/12913966 on vimeo.