Force jump

Anyone know where I can find a good turtorial for force jump?

 

Which kind?
There's several ways to do it.

1)Editing tricks. Fairly obvious, but they get the idea across.
2)Film someone acting out the jump, mask around/composite out the actor and animate them moving through the shot.
3)Computer-generated character.

That's what I think of off-hand, anyway. Which are you looking for?

-Vaportrail

 

I guess option 2 becuase I have after effects CS3 and camera. I think I know how to do it but want to see it done to make sure i'm not missing anything

 

This should work for you, good luck.

http://www.mlsstudios.com/tutorial.forcejump.php

 

yeah seen that one but I was hopeing for a video tut?

 

Check out his .zip file. That's probably as close as you're gonna get.
A little reading never hurt anyone.

-Vaportrail

 

So, this isn't exactly a video tutorial, but a video showing how we made our force jump. No real explanation on the video, but I can elaborate here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RpmRM6kuVNU

2:20 - 2:50

We first just had the standard action shot, and the actor would, plain and simple, jump up and out of the frame, and the other fighter (myself), would act out as if he landed the jump.
We then shot the actor over a "white screen", as you can see on the video. Then we keyed out the white, and added him in there frame by frame, and threw a motion blur on him as well.
A "white screen" is probably the worst color to use, but we really had nothing else at the time, and luckily it came out quite nicely.

I think the quick cuts really helped to sell the jump. It's a bit hard to pull off a force jump all in one shot, I think it would be a bit awkward.

 

White screen is okay to use.. I may try that in the near future. So far I only did it once, but it was an image I created in Photoshop w/ a white background rather than footage. This was before I was shown what alpha channels do, heh.
The only trick to it is that you want to have something behind the white part of the image you want to show up. It doesn't even have to be a copied picture of the person, just a white solid more or less the same shape tracked behind it.

That'll keep it from looking too dark, anyway. Motion blur helps a little, but if you don't want it to look too dark, that's the easy fix.

-Vaportrail

 

This post is actually helpful for me and my project. During the climax of the film there is an action sequence where the force sensitive hero is facing off against the dark jedi. Bad guy has the lightsaber but the hero doesn't.

So for the begining of the fight he has to keep evading the lightsaber and use his other Force skills to keep the bad guy at bay. I had ruled out using wirework on account of it being too dangerous and way too expensive. Hopefully with a combo of
editing and compositing i can get the idea across. Of cource , still got a ways to go before I have to worry about that, but it is nice to know I'll have options when I get there.

 

Here's a force jump I made pretty much the same way described already in this thread.

http://www.savefile.com/files/1447969