Holy fireballs, batman! Learn how to bring some fire spells into your footage in this episode of Cheap Tricks.
In the next few episodes of Cheap Tricks, Hashi a.k.a. Action Movie Kid will show you how to recreate many of the effects seen on the show using the VFX Suite and a ton of great tools and techniques. In this first episode, we’ll focus on 2 shots revolving around fire magic.
We’re also using a bunch of elements from ActionVFX – a huge set of stock VFX elements we use in house, at Red Giant.
More info: http://www.redgiant.com/blog/2019/08/08/cheap-tricks-got-vfx-part-1/
Table of Contents
0:00 – Intro
1:14 – Red Giant VFX Suite
1:48 – Action VFX Interview
4:42 – Great Footage
5:05 – Primatte Keyer
7:10 – Multiplane Backgrounds
9:30 – Integrating Stock Footage
11:29 – Creating a Fireball with Particular
15:17 – Matting Fire with Fractal Edges
18:32 – What is Supercomp?
27:00 – Realtime Supercomp Use
28:56 – Bonfire Scene
29:32 – VFX Shadow
30:31 – VFX Reflection
Performers (part of the Independent Drama fight team):
Jessica Lawlor – https://www.mandy.com/actor/profile/jessica-lawlor
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