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Struggling Filmmaker, Needs help finding resources, trying to understand After Effects
Hi guys, this is my first post. I am trying to learn and understand After Effects.
I am getting a mac soon and I was wondering if you guys would kindly help me. I was wondering where you can find video tutorials on muzzle flashes and gunshot wounds.
I am doing short videos to exercise and learn after Effects.
Do you guys know any sites or links so i can create these effects.
Stanley Strusowski
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3 Replies
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Search the COW for “muzzle flash” and “detonationfilms”.
Google “muzzle flash” and “after effects”. Tip: include “after effects” in Google searches for effects that will be created with AE.
Gunshot wounds are best done practically, with makeup and/or squibs. Anything else looks cheap and fake … unless the victim is a photorealistically-textured 3D model. Recall Hugo Weaving’s face distorting when punched in the third Matrix movie. That was a CG head.
Anybody else?
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Click on Andrew’s head above then hit the link for his site:
There is lots of stuff on guns and wounds, the exploding head tut… yucky good. He sells a DVD that has muzzle flashes.
Detonation films has some freebie muzzle flashes, here:
https://www.detonationfilms.com/free_stuff.htm
They also have a few tuts. I think the freebies are DO quality, and they and others sell higher quality.
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If you are new to AE and want to learn from the best I highly reccomend the AE Podcasts — espescially everything by A. Rabinowitz, he makes the fun stuff simple…
Regards,
Joe Springer
Certified Adobe After Effects Training and Premiere Training Instructor
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