Invisible Cape : Adobe After Effects Tutorial

Invisible Cape

A CreativeCOW After Effects Video Tutorial

Eran Stern
Israel

©2008 Eran Stern and Creativecow.net. All rights reserved.

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In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern with the help of his brother Yuval will show you a simple method to create the famous invisible look inspired from the movie "The Predator."

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Re: Invisible Cape
by aviles Candido

I enjoy watching this tutorial. I'm going to work on doing one also. I like how the shadow was done on the ground.

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very very useful tutorial
by Brij nandan

hello Eran.
this tutorial is very useful to make invisible predator,ghost or magician. I think this effect is used very frequently in movies, so we needed it .
Thanks, keep it up!

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Invisible Cape
by Kai Indvik

very cool.
in response to an earlier comment, the way you add an alpha channel to the video file is very simple.
once you have your comp in the render que, click on the output module. the default is "lossless."
under the video options, set the depth to "millions of colors+"
this will preserve the alpha channel.

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Invisible Cape
by patrick king

hi,
Wicked stuff.
How do you add alpha channel to video file.

regards
patrick

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Invisible Cape
by Moin Shahid

Hi Eran , It's very nice effect that you've created , previously i was trying to achieve predator effect in Shake by using Displacement node but it was not showing details now by watching your tute i got an idea for adding detail in my composition ,,thanks a lot!!
And BE CREATIVE.

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Invisible Cape
by Eran Stern

Regarding Fantastic 4, I don't know if they used AE, but the principles are the same with any effects software.
The House is a still picture of my family in the UK.

Eran

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Invisible Cape
by dim cap

Greetings from Greece!
Very fast and easy with top results!
Tnks for sharing Eran :)

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Invisible Cape
by Michael Ricks

This is great! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.

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