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  • Predators trailer effects

    Posted by Chris Law on August 14, 2010 at 3:58 pm

    I wanted to know how some of these effects were done in this trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u8vZwvP57Y

    First of all at 0:21 to 0:22 Just before the text appears theirs like some distortion i wanted to know how that was done.

    And at 1:47 i was wondering how that light that comes at the camera was done.

    Thanks for your help.

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    Simon Bonner replied 15 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Tudor “ted” jelescu

    August 14, 2010 at 7:58 pm

    The transition: looks like levels were blown out and then brought to black, the colors were mapped to blue and then red, I saw a bit of texture in there- may come from the image used or grain or a separate image, a bit of blur and a lens flare- but that’s just my guess. There’s no real formula, play around with the above to get that transition.
    The light- one way to do a laser pointing at the camera is to have a Knoll Lens Flare preset- Red Laser attached to a light in AE, with Trapcode Lux on top- to see the beam.

    Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
    Senior Compositor/VFX Artist
    Bucharest, Romania

  • Simon Bonner

    August 15, 2010 at 2:40 am

    To get a closer look at the transition, I would suggest downloading the trailer from iTunes or apple.com/trailers, then viewing it frame by frame. You’ll probably find that it’s just 3-4 frames of grungy texture. Whack a swooshy sound over it and you’re done.

    Simon Bonner

    youtube.com/simonsaysfx

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