VFX Techniques: Creating a Laser Battle
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Lee Lanier via LinkedIn Learning
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- 2-3 hours worth of material
- LinkedIn Learning
- English
Course Overview
Create awesome sci-fi laser gunfire and realistic set damage inside After Effects.
Creating a Laser Battle shows VFX artists how to generate science-fiction-style gun battles, complete with laser beams, sparks, and set damage. The effects are created right inside After Effects, with its built-in particle tools, rotoscoping, motion tracking, and color, distortion, and blur effects. Combining these techniques in your own shots will allow you to create a wide variety of futuristic gun blasts.
Creating a Laser Battle shows VFX artists how to generate science-fiction-style gun battles, complete with laser beams, sparks, and set damage. The effects are created right inside After Effects, with its built-in particle tools, rotoscoping, motion tracking, and color, distortion, and blur effects. Combining these techniques in your own shots will allow you to create a wide variety of futuristic gun blasts.
Course Circullum
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Breakdown of the final composition
- Setting up the project
- Splitting up the shots
- Creating a particle beam
- Creating a particle blast
- Creating particle sparks
- Rolling up a layer
- Distorting the plate
- Animating the beam
- Creating light reflections
- Creating light spills
- Adding core and sparks to the blast
- Adding blast flares
- Animating a post camera move
- Repurposing the particle blast
- Integrating the second blast
- Fabricating a hole in the set
- Stabilizing the plate
- Removing the tracking marks
- Adding interactive light
- Fixing the gun barrel
- Creating a new blast
- Integrating the new blast
- Creating a blast core
- Adding dust motes
- Creating an exposure change
- Making custom flares
- Adding more camera motion
- Combining the shots
- Adding the final effects
- Next steps
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This Course Include:
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Breakdown of the final composition
- Setting up the project
- Splitting up the shots
- Creating a particle beam
- Creating a particle blast
- Creating particle sparks
- Rolling up a layer
- Distorting the plate
- Animating the beam
- Creating light reflections
- Creating light spills
- Adding core and sparks to the blast
- Adding blast flares
- Animating a post camera move
- Repurposing the particle blast
- Integrating the second blast
- Fabricating a hole in the set
- Stabilizing the plate
- Removing the tracking marks
- Adding interactive light
- Fixing the gun barrel
- Creating a new blast
- Integrating the new blast
- Creating a blast core
- Adding dust motes
- Creating an exposure change
- Making custom flares
- Adding more camera motion
- Combining the shots
- Adding the final effects
- Next steps
- Provider:LinkedIn Learning
- Certificate:Certificate Available
- Language:English
- Duration:2-3 hours worth of material
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