Force Field Clip, what do you think?

Carnage7p · Post by **Carnage7p** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 3:41 am

i was going to use this in a short film, but not anymore. but i spent a lot of time on it. it is a force field. check it out. constructive criticism is appreciated.

if anyone tried to download earlier and it didn't work, there is a new and better link now.

http://12.22.230.41/MicroTech/Hosted/Fi ... eField.zip

ipon70 · Post by **ipon70** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 7:34 am

Not bad, pretty kewl stuff. I like to see what others can do because I haven't dev'd into that arena yet.

BTW your download came to me ay 72k second at 10:30pm pacific time.

lethelgirth87 · Post by **lethelgirth87** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 9:46 am

I didn't really understand what was going on, but it looked like some guy had a forcefield. Pretty sweet stuff. Keep up the good work.

Carnage7p · Post by **Carnage7p** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 3:35 pm

yeah it was supposed to be a force field. sorry about the download ipon. i'll see if the uploaders are back up so ppl can download faster. thanks the replies.

edit - i used an uploader now. the link should work a lot better.

mercenary123 · Post by **mercenary123** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 4:40 pm

sweet! pretty damn kool

ipon70 · Post by **ipon70** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 6:00 pm

Oh...no the download was fine. I was just letting you know what I got. Anythig around 50-100K a second seems fast enough to me, although I do love those 400+k a second ones

Carnage7p · Post by **Carnage7p** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 12:32 am

i think you mean kb. because 50-100k is really slow.

UFProductions · Post by **UFProductions** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 12:46 am

How long have you been working with After Effects? (If that's what you used) Very good, in my opinion having the objects just stop and drop in mid-air would be more effective, but the force-field did look great.

reflexive_cinematics · Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:05 am

think you mean kb. because 50-100k is really slow.

huh? 50 - 100 K he said... kb stands for kilobytes.. K is even shorter for kb.

I think you meant 50 - 100 B as in Bytes... yeah, then that is slow..

But that forcefield is really cool.. reminds me of something I'd see on charmed.. on the WB.

ahh.. rose mcgowan...alyissa milano... yum. haha

maj_barnes · Post by **maj_barnes** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:28 am

Very cool, the only thing that was bad was that you could still see the shadow of the box, good luck with that!

Carnage7p · Post by **Carnage7p** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:45 am

removing the shadow of the box would be really easy, and i saw that but i had already spent a lot of time on this just for a test clip so i just left it in.

maj_barnes · Post by **maj_barnes** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:54 am

It's not really that big of a deal either, at first I thought it was the shadow of the couch, but then I saw it move when it got hit; but still, a great video none the less.

2nd_Recon · Post by **2nd_Recon** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:14 am

Very nice force field

And very nice picture of what looks to be Kramer from Seinfeld

ChemicalShaman · Post by **ChemicalShaman** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:26 am

This looks really great, im really blown away by all the stuff that you have created so far.

Seeing your clips make me want to get into After Effects.

I downloaded the trial a while ago but gave up almost straight away because I found it a little bit complicated.

What is your experience with it, are you studying film makiing at uni or something? Did you buy a book on after effects? did you just read a lot of tutorials and help files or are you just really smart and have been playing with it for long time?

Seeing all the stuff that you have done with After Effects im definately going to try and get into it.

You know a lot of your effects would be perfect for some sort of DragonballZ movie

2nd_Recon · Post by **2nd_Recon** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:55 am

I would see a DBZ movie

maj_barnes · Post by **maj_barnes** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:29 am

I hate that show; they stand there for like five minutes yelling, with "power" all around them, while some other guy is like: "NO WAY!" It's seems cool, for a while.

Carnage7p · Post by **Carnage7p** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:33 am

ChemicalShaman wrote:This looks really great, im really blown away by all the stuff that you have created so far.

Seeing your clips make me want to get into After Effects.

I downloaded the trial a while ago but gave up almost straight away because I found it a little bit complicated.

What is your experience with it, are you studying film makiing at uni or something? Did you buy a book on after effects? did you just read a lot of tutorials and help files or are you just really smart and have been playing with it for long time?

Seeing all the stuff that you have done with After Effects im definately going to try and get into it.

You know a lot of your effects would be perfect for some sort of DragonballZ movie

thank you, i was also overwhelmed with after effects at first. i did not follow a tutorial for any of the effects i have been making but i did learn through tutorials. i have only been using after effects for about 6 months, so give it a shot. my recommendations for getting started in after effects is try a lightsaber tutorial and cloning tutorial. that will help you learn the basics of masking, keyframes, and using solids.

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:22 am

Pretty cool stuff you got going there. Nice thinking with the cardboard box, and cool to show members how it was done. Aside from no sound ( Becuase that plays a HUGE role in the effect ) it seemed kind of "slugish." Not sure exactly how, but the force feild it's self didn't seem to have motion to it, just a big blue blob. If you could add some sort of staticyness to it, and then some sound of the force field comming up, static in the field, and the object being hit, I think it would look and sound a lot cooler. Good job, keep up the good work.

ChemicalShaman · Post by **ChemicalShaman** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 12:26 pm

ok you've completely inspired me to reinstall after effects. Could you please point me in the direction of a good light saber tutorial, a cloning tutorial would be great also.

thanks:)

Carnage7p · Post by **Carnage7p** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:08 pm

for those who are interested

Lightsaber tutorial done by Ryan W
http://www.fanfilms.co.uk/ryanw/ryan-w/ ... abers.html

Cloning tutorial done by Ken Lawton
http://www.durbnpoisn.com/films/clonetut/page1.asp

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:14 pm

ChemicalShaman wrote:ok you've completely inspired me to reinstall after effects. Could you please point me in the direction of a good light saber tutorial, a cloning tutorial would be great also.

thanks:)

Your going about learning the program in the wrong way. Don't learn it by doing effects, learn the tequinques and tools of AE, THEN you will know how to do the effects, as well as be creative to create your own.

BrokenDreams · Post by **BrokenDreams** » Mon May 09, 2005 2:36 pm

cool...

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