Making the jump to lightspeed

Is there a making the jump to lightspeed tutorial?

 

yeah you just need a delorian, some plutonium and a long straight road

 

... That's not lightspeed, that's time travel...



I've actually been trying to find a good tutorial myself, but haven't had any luck. I'll be sure to let you know if I ever find one.

 

Maybe our homie Dorkman Scott can come up with a tutorial on this.

 

After Effects ---> Play around with the cc light gun or cc glue... it will give you a similiar effect but not as bright (use it on the startfields from scifi3D). Then just push up the white's or use exposure to get the effect....


3D app: Make many white cylinders (like a starfield) but far from the camera and make them small. Then animate them to extend over time and go past the camera...


those are the basics...

I kind of like the after effects way because it's quick and give's a very accurate result after some trying... I found it out by accident so no tutorial there....

maybe I'll make one once I've got time...

 

3D app: Make many white cylinders (like a starfield) but far from the camera and make them small. Then animate them to extend over time and go past the camera...

I did one like this in 3DS. You just have to cut before the cylinders nearest the camera look too much like cylinders.

 

They'll probably be moving too fast to really see that they're cylinders. Especially if they've been given a shadeless material (I know this is possible in Blender - I assume it's doable in Max as well)

 

What is cc ?

 

cc is CycoreFX and it comes bundled with most versions of after effects. Its on the installation cd, you just need to install it separately from the full program. It comes various effects for a lot of different purposes, and all the effects are named beginning with "cc". For instance "cc particle world" or "cc force motion blur".

 

They'll probably be moving too fast to really see that they're cylinders. Especially if they've been given a shadeless material (I know this is possible in Blender - I assume it's doable in Max as well)

They're actually not moving that quick. Thing is, by the time they're that close to the camera one shoudl traditionally cut to the exterior shot of the ship shooting away fro our POV anyway.

I must upload the file so people can muck around with it themselves.

 

After mucking around in the Apple forums for a while, I actually made a pretty good "jump to lightspeed" effect in Motion, using a starfield created in photoshop, some levels and other simple filters, and a sequence replicator. There MUST be an equivalent action for AE.

 

Well, they aren't moving terribly fast. But still fast enough that you wouldn't see they were cylinders. Unless you had one extending practically INTO the camera.

 

^This^ sounds right, although I've never even seen "Motion" so I'm guessing at the details.
The canonical effect looks like a truck or a zoom into a flat starfield and then re-filmed with an open shutter. I need this effect for Knighthood, so I just took a stab at it...

[image=http://ts.vimeo.com.s3.amazonaws.com/106/476/10647664_160.jpg]

 

I did this in After Effects with
DigiEffects > Berserk > Starfield.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-VEK7D29K8

Thanks to my TF.N homies with all the 411, I mucked around with
some of your ideas.



This is version 6 of this effect. The other 5 are not as good, and I think finally I am
on the right track, but I'm still not competely satisfied with it.

 

There is a better way in 3Ds Max. If you go to the rendering pull down menu and select effects, then select lens glow effect, under that you can pick starfield. In order for starfield to work, you need to set up a camera. After seting up a camera, and animate the camera to move forward really fast, and render the scene, you should get a lightspeed look...

 

Come on, hadn't we figured this out months ago, and there was a nice hi-res pre-made video of it?

 

Wow, good memory, back from September of last year...

http://boards.theforce.net/fan_films_fan_audio_scifi_3d_forum/b10015/29233313/p1/?24

The link is broken, but I'm sure bgii_2000 still has the video of it.

 

We need to get that thing hosted permanently somewhere (I'll host it if nobody else wants to) and add it to a sticky or something. This topic comes up consistently enough.

 

If anyone has the file, I could put it up and host it so that the link is always available. If memory serves, that was put together for Dorkman(?), so he may have it as well.

 

I have it too..

will look for it...

 

http://www.vimeo.com/1860862

 

Here is a link to a couple variations on the effect that I created with Apple Motion.

If Motion can create the effect this well, then AE MUST be able to do it too.

http://www.vimeo.com/4539423

 

Found it!

http://www.ricardo-musch.com/clients/tfn/hyperjump.rar

this is the one that was made for dorkman I think...

 

does anyone know how this was created? im just curious...

 

Pretty much:

-Set up a static starfield image in you compositor of choice.

-Animate the size of said starfield image to increase over time

-Apply some sort of time echo, repeat, or shutter effect to the animation.