“Jumper” Teleport effect in After Effects

[Joey Burnham]

Hey there,
I worked with a bunch of Jumper footage at work, and I can tell you it was not done in AE, but after stepping through some of the footage, I can guess at how to achieve a similar look.

1. duplicate your source footage (person to morph) and apply an effect very similar to the disappearing cape tutorial that was just posted. You want your top layer to look like the predator when invisible. That’s exactly what the tutorial shows you how to do.

2. the transition into the predator material from your source looks to be a combo of a gradient wipe, with some masking going on depending on the type of morph you are trying to do. for example, lets say you want to do this effect to a car moving from left to right. you would transition from your source footage to the “predator” footage with a quick wipe from left to right. If a person is just walking, you might need an oval mask that animates on it’s y-axis. (like a door closing.

at the same time you could apply some turbulent displace to help sell the effect.

this is all fine and dandy for someone disappearing, but it gets more tricky to have someone appear. you need some sort of tear effect displacement map to effect your background footage, otherwise your character will just appear from nowhere, and in the movie it’s more of a portal effect.

sorry for the long post but I hope this helps.

really, watch the invisible cape tutorial. it will help.

best,
Joey

[Adam Palmer]

thanks for the reply..
at the moment i’ll try what you said but i’m no AE whizz so might take some time… theres a good video out of a believeable effect but he wont tell anyone how to do it =(

[Joey Burnham]

theres a good video out of a believeable effect but he wont tell anyone how to do it =(

What do you mean by this?

[Adam Palmer]

Someone has made this effect and it looks very good, i cant remember where I saw it but the guy who made it is refusing to tell anyone how he did it, or hes telling them but not telling how to do it all =(

[Joey Burnham]

email me. joey.burnham@mac.com

[Matthew Helms]

Hey,

I did lots of masking and turbulent displace and came up with this. Tell me what you think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr13woNLcsE&fmt=18

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[Joey Burnham]

I like it but what about when you just appear in the car? It would be cool if you displaced “into” the front seat as well.

Good job!

[Matthew Helms]

I did use a displacement when I landed inside the car but it didnt show up on youtube like I imagined. Im glad you liked it. How did you do yours?

[Joey Burnham]

never did! but I basically recreate graphics for a living so…

[Kevin Broussard]

here’s a suggestion, the car scene. bring into after effects and duplicate the effects for teleporting out of the car. once you have completed the effects for teleporting out of the car, enable time remapping and reverse your time 100%. just add the ‘-‘ sign to the value for time.