It's rolling Yannick.
Okay Lorenzo I saw this video from the hacksmith
and I wanna try that. Let me do this, let me do this.
Ey, what are you guys doing?
Get away from my car.
Run Lorenzo, run, run ...
Hey guys Yannick here for cinecom.net
and did you know that we are Star Wars fans?
Like big fans.
So you can imagine that we freaked out a little bit when the hacksmith made this real lightsaber video.
And how cool was the video where he burns everything with the lightsaber.
Well we are cinecom and we can also burn stuff.
Maybe we should be safe Yannick and use After Effects for this one.
But before we can do anything we need to make our shots.
So grab a tripod and shoot your shot.
Then grab your actor with a lightsaber or at least the handle of it because
we are not the hacksmith and we don't have a real lightsaber.
Place your actor near something you want to cut through,
let your actor do a motion of ramming the lightsaber in the car and cutting a hole.
But of course you can do any movement you want.
But what if you want to take it to the next level like for example a Star Wars short film.
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And now that we have all our shots Yannick is gonna place them in After Effects.
Before we can start with the effect we of course first need to add a lightsaber
but
this I'm not going to explain because we already made a very cool tutorial about that
I'll leave a link for that in the description below
and now let's burn some stuff.
Just place your shot in after effects and now we are mostly going to work with the particle systems
of After Affects itself.
First thing we need to do is create a solid layer and a null object.
On the solid layer we are going to add the particle system.
And with this we are going to create our molten lava effect.
Now the following settings are our settings
and they work the best for us but of course
every shot is different so maybe it's possible that you need to tweak your settings
to make it look better on your footage.
But we started by increasing the birth rate to around 6.
Then we also maxed out the longevity to around 10.
This will give your animation more particles in the beginning and they will live longer.
Next for the physics we can set the velocity and the gravity to zero.
Making the particle stay in place.
Now let's go further to the particles itself now.
Set the particle type to "shaded" and "faded sphere" and slightly increase the birth sizeand the size variation.
And also set the opacity map to constant.
If you want you can now adjust the colors making it more lava-like.
Also set the transfer mode on screen.
And look at that!
We have an orange blob
but don't worry
we just have to animate our emitter and we can easily do this with a null object.
Animate your null object however you want.
You can even use a null object with some tracking data on it.
Then open up the properties of the particle system and go to the producer.
Use the pick whip tool of the position and parent the position of the emitter
to the position of the null object.
And - BOOM!
Your particles are animated.
However we're not there yet. Let's tweak it some further
Take a solid layer and duplicate it.
This layer will give us some extra depth in the magma stuff .
First lower the birth rate, next also lower the birth size and increase the death size.
Last, set both colors to black and the transfer mode to composite.
Now adjust the blending mode of the layer itself to soft light
and look at that!
We have some more texture on our magma.
But don't stop now let's keep on adding those details
Next up is the inner extra glowing hot part.
Again duplicate the original magma solid layer and place it on top of everything.
Here we are going to make the producer smaller.
So lower the x and the y radius and also lower the birth and the death size a whole bunch.
Last set the colors to something reddish, the transfer mode to "add",
and also set the blending mode of the layer itself to "add".
Okay, we are really getting there but
let's give this glowing hot line also some extra texture.
Duplicate the highlight magma solid layer we just made and again place it on top.
Lower the birth rate to around 0.1,
increase the birth size to around 0.25,
and the death size to around 0.75.
Next set the color map to origin constant and the transfer mode to screen.
And this will leave you with a black particle stream
but it's exactly what we want.
Because we are going to use this as a track matte for the highlight glowing layer.
So adjust the track matte option of the highlight layer to alpha inverted matte
and voila
we have some extra detail for the highlight magma stream.
Now if you want you can of course fine tune it some more
and you can even create a magma drip by adding a new stream with some gravity on it.
Oh yeah
the best thing about this technique with the null object is that you can easily change your animation.
You just have to move around your null object and the magma will follow along.
Now once you have all this
you probably need to blend it better.
So maybe select it all, pre-comp it, and then you can easily blend it with your footage.
you can even duplicate layer and on the top magma add a fast box blur .
And create a fake glow to bring it all together.
Okay it's rolling, guys Jordy is not paying attention
so let me show you our lightsaber.
Hacksmith, watch this:
YANNICK!
Oh no, Jordy...
Jordy's Fun Fact Fountain.
Yannick is fired.
By the way guys have you seen our animated short that we published last Wednesday?
It is really cool and you definitely should check it out.
I'll leave a link to it in the description down below.
Or in the cart up there until then
thank you so much for watching, thank you Storyblocks for the support
and as always
stay creative!
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♪ The only thing that's real ♪
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