Massive Battlefield VFX

[@DahlhousePictures]

It's crazy that the first video I see from you guys after my brother Dillan passed away from Stage 4 Cancer, has a Make a Wish ad! My brother wasn't supposed to make it past 9 after being diagnosed with a rare bone disease call Fanconi Anemia. Because of this my mom reached out to Make-a-Wish and we actually got accepted for it in 2001! I was from a very small town in North Dakota so when a long limo parked in our driveway to pick us up everyone wanted to know what was going on. We flew out to California and my brother had to make his wish. My brother Dillan and I grew up obsessed with Jim Carrey! We seen a every Jim Carrey movie (expect for Me,Myself, and Irene) up to this point. Quoting The Mask or The Grinch over and over again. Our love for movies was born because of him. So naturally my brother wish was to meet Jim Carrey and we did and all at the universal backlot where back to the future set was! Dill and I reenacted every scene from the Mask to Dumb and Dumber to him. I remember it so vividly. After that experience and as we grew older we finally got our own digital camera and started filming stupid funny skits with our closest friends. You can't make cool videos without VFX right? So that's where you guys pop into our lives! We tried to learn every VFX from you guys. From the fable fire effects to the superman jump! I spent hours learning After Effects while my brother learned Premiere Pro. We still continued making films even up to the month prior to he's diagnosis. Heck we even filmed in his hospital room trying out Wonder Dynamics new tool! Suddenly it all turn into reality again as because of his rare bone disease he could not receive proper chemo to stop the tumors. We flew back home in August , watched the last few football games we could together, then God took him on September 11th, 2023. Its devastating to look at film projects because he's in every single one of them since the beginning. It's been hard and I knew this is a massive dump onto this episode but you guys made such an impact on our lives and related so close to you as you had a brother who does whatever you want in the video for you as did I and you had a younger sibling (emily) as did I with my younger brother who'd we throw in randomly in our videos just because we could! 🤣Just remember to cherish them, as you never really know how fast the world moves until there's a deadline.

[@DumLad]

Sounds like you made some memories to remember for the rest of your life. I hope your brother is doing good wherever he is now 👍

[@nikobricolas3813]

Amazing story. R.I.P. to your lovely brother. May he enjoy forever paradise.

[@nigelcarren]

Bless you mate. Long may his memory remain. ⚒️🌞⚒️

[@filmriot]

I'm so sorry for your loss. It's an immense honor to read that we could be a small part of your lives and relationship. Thank you for sharing that. The beauty of the things we make with the people we love is that we have them forever, and it sounds like you two made a wealth of wonderful memories together. I'm heartbroken for you and your family, but I'm so happy you had that amazing love for the time you did. All our love to you and your family!

[@CalebNatale]

SOLID element 3D work!

[@reecegrocott9620]

Beautifully simple. Felt like old school Film Riot. Love it Rye Bread

[@leevfx]

for better smoke integration use the depth matte output from E3D to multiply with the smoke, it will then sit in the crowd in a more realistic way

[@alan-baird]

This is one of the most useful episodes you guys have put out in a long time! I've been looking for a simple way to do this look for years, this is an amazing method 🙌

[@digiscience3508]

My favourite KZbin channel I really enjoy it when you use element 3d you always make cool stuff using it

[@rubayetshanto7553]

So so good It’s so so good

[@alexropero4558]

AMAZING!! 🤩 Please more effects of battles and medieval things! ❤

[@RandyBass]

Amazing!! As always...but how do 8 people (as of now) dislike this? How??? Nothing but valuable information, comedy and perfection. It's so so good.

[@OnAWireStudios]

How do you even see the dislikes?

[@RandyBass]

@@OnAWireStudios There's an extension for Chrome (not sure of any others) called "Return KZbin Dislike". Just add that and you'll see them again.

[@JacobCarlson]

I didn't realize it was so easy to bring a miximo animation into Element. Thanks as always for learning me somethin new!

[@Instillment]

Wow, I did not expect this to be Element 3D when I first clicked on this! Very impressive!

[@raspiestchip]

The fact that you've all of that on AE is impressive! Keep up the tutorials, we need people like you.

[@StarCinemaEffects]

The ad killed me :D

[@RichieGriffin]

Good to see you guys moving again

[@TheStanishStudios]

Oooh I finally upgraded to Element v2 on Black Friday! This is perfect timing 🔥

[@jeremymolinari6597]

Love the shout out to Make-A-Wish! Yinz are amazing.

[@dennypry]

Pittsburgher spotted

[@jeremymolinari6597]

@@dennypry Not if I've spotted you first

[@hakimitus]

Oh. My. GODD. You always blow my mind with how simply you breakdown and explain this stuff!!

[@brokenstudiotv]

It's amazing to see you guys make wonderful use of all of these tools and especially Element3D to achieve such results. Thank you for sharing!

[@mrudulfaye997]

wow, i just love how you breakdown this complex shots in such easy to do way thankyou film riot you guys are the best!

[@NickShaheen]

The sponsored ads are the best! or I mean good... so so good.

[@RafaelAAMerlo]

It was hard to follow the barrage of information (being a non-VFX professional), but it was really nice to see this technical of a explanation. Thanks :D

[@DaynenBiggs]

Best ad ever! Even beats the Squarespace "idea pitching" ad! 🤣

[@A_I_M_E]

The ad in this episode reminds me of old film riot.

[@crimetimeproductions6340]

Awesome! It's always fun to see how far you guys have come with visual effects stuff 🔥

[@Hardymovies]

WOW this is incredible

[@pixelretroo]

Can we please, please get a regular series of Ryan’s Corner of Elegance? Well done chaps, rather jolly good 👌

[@Atlas_Medya]

When this guy make tutorial videos, which the things that I think making them is so difficult, seems damn pretty easy.

[@SWADEProductions]

so so good

[@BadKarma714]

I would like to see a corridor, digital and film riot, collaboration.

[@2365Films]

Great tutorial! Fantastic end result!

[@SeanBreathnach]

Amazing - very cool. Looking forward to playing around with this. Cheers!

[@legolasstudios]

This tutorial is so so good. It's so so good.

[@stickynotestudios7686]

I wish Davinci Fusion had tutorials this good!

[@pylesofmedia]

This tutorial is just what I needed!! It so good. So, so good!

[@SternFX]

Great Tutorial, Thank you!

[@filmmakerevolution]

Ha love this, defo want to give it a go at some point 🙂

[@JoeLiningToolFilms]

Love the lotr look!

[@CommandoNinja]

Awesome tutorial as always !!!

[@Fruitymasterz]

Holy crap this is good stuff! 🔥

[@beMOTIONdESIGN]

Wow...well done!

[@nazmibayan]

sho sho gooddd

[@EmmanuelAdejokunsage]

This is so so good 😁. Thank you for the tutorial.

[@billsnothere4499]

Thank you!

[@clonkex]

Lol, good sponsor segment.

[@someoneedits]

another great episode

[@universalproductionsllc8304]

You create some great ads for your sponsors, brother!!

[@cashdollersign8361]

That music bed ads, Had a whole segment there 😂

[@fayisparakkal123]

it was an epic epsode

[@DjBobbyHustle]

dope as usual

[@EastonBawden-bq6eq]

more pleaseeeeee🔥 love the vfx breakdowns

[@ESN_MEDIA]

Magestic! :*

[@romainfusilier8806]

Love it ! Keep going the crazyness

[@SkyShazad]

BLOODY CLEVER

[@CoolScratcher]

I really wish there was tutorials like this for Davinci Resolve/Fusion... because this is certainly possible, but not a lot of people make tutorials for it :(

[@JNJstudios]

Freakin Ryan... How did you pull this off in After effects?? Lol. As always, I'm impressed

[@metanulski]

You make them fight copys of themself. This is pure evil

[@apostolosfilms6841]

just saw this now. idk how many times i requested a battle scene recreate!

[@BLfilms08]

Thanks

[@ItsCliffGaming]

I hate how well the torch effect worked - lol

[@Harleycactor]

So so good lol 😁🤙🏽

[@Romanrabka]

So so good its so so good😂

[@Ali_Kisitu]

wow dude

[@mishratv]

Can’t you do the entire sequence in blender? Just wondering why you chose to use element 3d

[@RicardoSegarra]

We back baby!

[@GaryTurbo]

This will be great for an Apex Legends movie

[@generichouse]

Idk why they don’t just use blender. It’s free, not everyone has element 3D.

[@TheInterestingInformer]

Great question, if someone has the answer pls pitch in I’m curious too

[@dragonsui-lk6os]

Element 3d is free. I use it for free

[@WestfilmsCo]

@@dragonsui-lk6osplease tell me how, i wanna use it for free

[@MiirVFX]

I guess it's for flexibility. You can jump back to E3D from after effects but in blender you have to render everything then import to AE. I personally just use blender for cgi shots. Sure it's time consuming but i have the controls i need in blender

[@suhelpal1843]

​@@WestfilmsCoget the crack from igetintopc Or getintopc

[@filmmaker.pictures.cooperation]

🔥

[@DethronerX]

Wait, let the animation be in Sync and its a music video

[@interwebvagabond]

Don't tell me that's Element 3D.

[@estigiapro1110]

Just make sure to cut the shot before they meet in the center :V

[@Dean_Pearson]

👏 👏 👏

[@TomTennisco]

This is so well done! Tell me please (as I’m in the market for a new computer) what specs do you need to achieve these effects?

[@glorfy4985]

Great effect, what is the purpose of the "so so good" i hate it and I want it gone.

[@danieloakes8936]

Awesome tutorial! I've tried something similar to this before and ran into an issue that you didn't seem to run into. I ran into it again following along with this tutorial, on two different computers. The "Random Loop" option when selecting a random start point for the obj sequence doesn't really loop, each instance just pops off when the sequence ends. Am I missing something?

[@VFXProductionsRT]

What do you mean by pops off? Do they vanish or you mean the animation loop isn't seamless so there's a noticeable jump in the animation?

[@danieloakes8936]

@@VFXProductionsRT They would vanish, I just figured it out though. It turns out I did skip a step early on. In Mixamo I didn't check off "Keep in Place" so the model is actually moving in z-space. When the loop happens it jumps back to the first obj frame, which is in a completely different spot than where it ended.

[@marethyu773]

Does it still make sense to buy Element 3d when we have unreal engine and aftereffects doing 3d

[@DehinorVargas]

Our world should spin around Element 3D

[@GeneralDStudios]

All of these in a 4k comp? My mac can never.😫😫

[@88LoneWolf01]

is video co-pilot 3D plugin free?

[@TheSmeagol630]

Boo. Just stay in Blender until the compositing stage. You can even render in Multilayer EXR from Blender with a Z depth layer so you can add fog or other depth-dependent effects without needing the 3D scene to be done in Ae. Even using the Z layer as a matte works.

[@kairos6761]

tienes algún curso??

[@oceana4761]

you guys should recreate shots from the marvels movie

[@okwudilichijiokedaniel4381]

Can you change the costume of the models?

[@Film_Homage]

Please more blender tuts

[@nightxhunter3421]

Can you guys break down how to make a helicopter crash please 🙏🏼

[@БесПравды]

Молодцы!

[@aliaamblood]

how Render?

[@tahallium]

is film riot not caring about the fact that iphone 15 can record LOG now?

[@iam_mr_rahaman]

Can you recreate Loki season 2 glorious purpose last walking scene time temporal loop❤

[@rockybproduction9038]

Then add a dragon

[@Shrike8473]

The Less than a minute gang

[@ভোমরা]

Create MrBeast Effect🥰

[@Broce_DaNerd]

555 views is wild

[@tyler3201]

This is why battles in movies look bad sometimes. Lazy people just dropping in 3000 soldiers without considering real fighting tactics.

[@Rated111E]

you guys are the best x10000000 likes!

[@cashdollersign8361]

Sup my bro ry ry, Can ds himself get a shout out. Its so so good

[@WhySteve]

See you later. Taa taa.

[@sabersight908]

this looks very bad to be honest but it has good base template to improve on and make it look more realistic

[@Graceaboundingstudios]

Hey film riot, thank you for all the effort you put into your videos, they inspire a lot of people! I wanted to stop by, hopefully bring some encouragement to you all. 3 years ago God saved me and gave me eternal life, as well as new purpose. Hopefully one day, many more people will come to salvation through Jesus Christ. Because those who do not, will eventually have to face an angry God and spend eternity in hell as punishment for their sins. I don't want that for anybody! We all, including myself, deserve hell as punishment for our sins, aka violating God's Holy standards. For every lie told, everytime we took something that wasn't ours, everytime we looked lustfully at a woman, or used His name as a curse word, these are just some things that rightly anger God. He is a just judge who will carry out the final verdict and cleanse the world of sin and evil. BUT, He is also a God of incredible mercy, because He sent His only Son Jesus Christ, to live a perfect life and die a perfect death. He took our punishment that we deserve on Himself. And now He offers everlasting life to anyone who repents of their sins and puts their faith in Him alone. We can't earn or loose it, and I hope to see you all in Heaven one day!

[@Sairawkerh]

I awlyas enjoy ur content but all of them are hard to follow cause it required so many paid apps and assets...

[@brockeastwood4610]

I just realized that I haven't seen the turbulent displacement meme in a long time, can you guys do a tutorial that includes it to specifically meet my need to hear turbulent displacement?