Special Effect Videos

[spark1223]

Most of these are at my channel,please check them out, its very appreciated.I enjoy any feedback, just please no flaming, constructive criticism. There are so many I don't want to make a topic for all of them. Some of the more notable (I think):

- This is me killing my "clone". I didn't have another actor so I used split screen. I used that to test my gun blow back, blood splat, and muzzle flash effects. Very easy to do, yet one of my favs.

me shooting a gun. No reason at all, other than to test my muzzle flash and blow back effects.

- Similar to first video posted above. First version. There is no blowback of the gun.

this is my energy ball creation.

Me tossing around energy balls

Not very impressive but still one of favs. Its one of the good earlier videos I made. Me getting hit by a car.

very old - light sabers. Not the best sound effect job though.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Nice work mate! I love the light sabre one

The only thing you should work on a bit more is the SFX, but nevertheless the visual effects are pretty damn cool! Except for the split screen thingy, I wouldn't know how to do any of those!

 

[Snorlax]

Goodjob mate. Those vids looks great.
My one point for improvement would be the movement of the energy balls when you're throwing them. They looked too controlled. Would've been nice to see some more ease-in's and ease-out's.

Overall, some great clips. Keep up the good work. :>

 

[spark1223]

Thanks for the feedback, guys, its appreciated.

In my defense (For an excuse)...

Nice work mate! I love the light sabre one biggrin.gif The only thing you should work on a bit more is the SFX, but nevertheless the visual effects are pretty damn cool!

The sound effects of the saber was the worst of all my saber vids. I posted the last one, because it has the most movement and the best "visual" effect, the other has better sound.

To be honest, sound is the hardest part of that effect. You only can find a few saber sounds, and you really have to time them right and not be repetitive. and know how to overlap them properly. I can't remember how I did it right the first time, but you know when it sounds good.
The first part is just realllllly repetitive and time consuming, you have to draw the saber blade over the prop in every frame.

Goodjob mate. Those vids looks great.
My one point for improvement would be the movement of the energy balls when you're throwing them. They looked too controlled. Would've been nice to see some more ease-in's and ease-out's.

Overall, some great clips. Keep up the good work. :>


The energy ball movement was difficult to make close to real, I knew that when I started and when I even thought of the idea. In the end it was still controlled, the only thing I could do really is add wiggle to it, because the animation engine can only do linear movement.

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Except for the split screen thingy, I wouldn't know how to do any of those!

If your interested, the split screen is probably one of the easiest tricks, its only difficult to time and CAN be somewhat difficult to make it look real. In that gun shot video, if you look real close you'll notice a mistake, this will give away how the trick is done.

Spoiler

look for camera movement

If you give up read the spoiler below:

Spoiler

The right side of the frame moves a bit before one of the "clones" walks on screen. I film one side of the shot first. Then the other. Then I use any linear editor with two video tracks (in this case sony vegas).I sync it up by varying opacity. Then I "mask" (fancy word for cut) out the area where one the clones are. Then underneath the unmasked area is the other shot of the video. So it looks like I'm screen twice.

The gun is all stock film and sound, very easy. The blowback is the most complex out of that equation but it still pretty easy.

 

[gameboy13]

Me likey! The vids!

 

[spark1223]

Thanks.