That guy with no name said:
JoyOfEditing said:
That guy with no name said:
Finnaly finsihed this shot:
Streamable: https://streamable.com/s64hjz
Thanks to TheStarWarsPurist and TheOnlyIDontEvenKnow for their incredible Modeling work!
Thoughts, comments, or concerns aren’t only allowed but encouraged.
I love it! Your timing on the hit effect is so flippin’ crisp, and the CG work is SUBERB!
This is teeny-tiny niggle from an animator who has composited WAY too many blast effects - you might wanna adjust the opacity/blending mode of the smoke effect that is sitting over the sparkler to better match the wide shot. I used to composite blasts the way you’ve got it now, but after doing a million of them, I switched the way I layered/masked them and the results were much better.
You don’t need to change what you’ve got, I’m the only one on Planet Earth who will notice, lol! But if you composited the effect in AE, I’d be happy to take a quick look at it. Bottom line, this is amazing work!!!
In what way? It’s not on any blending mode. The element itself has a transparent background, changing it to screen or lowering the opacity will just reveal what’s behind it. I did this composite in Resolve’s Fusion.
Gotcha! I’m actually saying go in the opposite direction. Without seeing how you’ve laid out the comp, my guess was that you had two elements (sparkler/smoke) screened or added on top of each other.
I think the smoke element is currently a bit too transparent, because on the back half of the shot, it kinda looks like the sparkler is on top of the smoke rather than shining through the smoke from behind.
In the original shot you’re replacing, you don’t get a clear look at the sparkler until the wide shot when the smoke starts to break up. In the close shot, there’s just a glowy white center where the sparkler is shining through the thick smoke.
To match the original, I would make the smoke effect less see-through and overclock the sparkler by quickly junk animating a blurry white solid over the sparkler on an add or screen layer to mimic the way the light from the sparkler would diffuse through the smoke particles (like it did on the original panel).
Am I making sense? I think that quick tweak would make your effect completely indistinguishable from the practical effects that surround it, because the elements and timing you’ve got are already perfect.
