Orbing tutorial

[Steve Roberts]

Are you using Babelfish? Sorry, but I don’t know what a “charmed orbing” tutorial is.

If you mean “sphere”, try searching the COW tutorials for “glass” or “globe” or “sphere”.

Can you post a link to an example?

[Cenk Yartan]

Owww i apologize for the strange language but orbing is a kind of teleportation in charmed T.V. show and it’s really hard to find a good orbing tutorial for After Effects.I found one but it’s too complicated,i simply asked the owner of the tutorial if he could support his tutorial with pictures or make a video tutorial but he didn’t reply.

Here’s an example.

[Steve Roberts]

Ah. I see. Sorry, footage is too small for me to analyze. Maybe there’s a video tutorial for a Star Trek transporter effect that you can modify?

[Jacob Wessler]

I think one of the easiest things to do – and to keep everything in After Effects without going to a full 3D program – is to use a plugin like Trapcode Particular or WonderTouch ParticleIllusion (PI).

Particular resides in AE and will follow AE’s 3D camera. PI is a standalone program and does not have true 3D (although you can fake it by using the zoom tool). PI makes much more complex particles, but Particular follows 3D and is native in AE.

So, I’m not sure where a tutorial is, but if you want to use Particular, this is how I would do it:

Creat a new solid
Apply Particular to it
Modify your particle settings to match the color, velocity, opacity, and blending modes that you want.
Use Motion Sketch on a null object to create a circling effect
Apply the position data to that of a Light in 3D space
Set the Particular Emitter to that of the Light (now your paticles will emit from the light’s position)
Create another Solid with Trapcode applied
Use a larger particle size to sort of float in place where your actor is.
Animate both Particular layers to appear and then fade off

Place a copy of your background plate in a new composition
On top of that, place keyed out footage of your actor (either greenscreened, or difference matted from a locked-off camera shot)
Place your particular layers on top of these.
For the 3D light Particular layer, set your actor layer to the obscuration layer (this will make the particles seem to go behind your actor)

Fiddle with the settings and fade out your actor as the particles fade out.

You’ve got an orb effect.

Of course, it’s going to take a LOT more work than this, but hopefully this will get you pointed in the right direction.

Good Luck,
Jacob

[Frank Hardie]

Found a tutorial for you at:

https://www.shiningstarlimited.com/Tutorials/Charmed/Orbing.htm

Hope this helps.

[Ethan Hinkle]

can you make a video tutorial of this
I just dont get how to do it
PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!