SHORT: Newbie needs an advice

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partizansk

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Hi Guys!
I started to make some VFX videos. If you have time could you have a look and tell me what do you think and how to improve them
Thank you for your time.


Bellow is a link to a video I like the most, if you like it please check out my other video too...

http://youtu.be/hL3SrU_Of4k
 
Hi. I'm pretty much a newbie too but thought I'd give you my two cents. I liked your flying effects. I thought they were really good - something I don't know how to do yet - and the music. I really like when you drop out of the sky. That was cool. The only advice I have is that, if you want, you could up the saturation and adjust the whites and blacks to get better color - so your footage gets a little more pop and sharper color.
 
I liked it a lot, especially how you utilized your surroundings to further sell the effect that you were flying.
Keep up the good work and you will get ever better.
 
That's a fun video and your star has a lot of charm. As far as ideas for making it even better, there are several opportunities to add shadows to help sell the effect: on the child's playset before he comes into view, on the metal pipes between the apartment buildings, and possibly on the side of the apartment building itself. I'd also leave some smoke wafting in the spot he was standing after he first shoots up into the sky.
 
Well, since you came here for help, here's my thoughts:

1.) You're working in AE, so work on motion tracking. The blue orb / jet things toward the beginning are stationary in the shot and your hands move. Give the blue glow a reaction to surroundings.
2.) The "smoke trails" need to be changed completely. They aren't believable for multiple reasons. First, they don't react to any of the environment. Second, they look like a particle emulated smoke contraption, but most importantly, they move WITH you in the shots. When smoke is dispersed, it stays in that spot, and lifts / falls depending on its density. It does NOT move with the emitter. If you're creating this with a particle emitter, track the source (hands / feet / whatever) and don't keyframe the layer when the original file should be stationary. That way the particles will move with the item, but the previously created particles will react how you tell them to (rise / fall) in that spot.
3.) Light yourself / talent to the environment. Make sure the light sources are coming from the same spot / area.
4.) CC! At LEAST match the blacks so that you don't look weird in a washed out shot.
5.) MOTION BLUR! Nothing flying would be that clear (without your shutter up super high, which wouldn't be happening in this case). Add motion blur. Motion Blur can really help sell it.
 
I think the advice is already given. But as a "normal, general viewer" I can say that it's not bad at all. But I do see some "this is not real".

If it would have been a superman 70-ies movie, everyone would have believed it. But these day's you've to be very very very very detailed.
 
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