How to make real VFX EMBERS from scratch! - After Effects Tutorial

[@SirWrender]

Hey everyone! I hope you liked the tut! I want to make more this year. Any suggestions? All my time these days is given to the CorridorDigital channel, so definitely check that out. Also, we put out a new vlog every other day on the Samandniko channel if you want to see more of my shenanigans. Cheers!

[@SkintSNIPER262]

Some sort of masking dealio involving arrows? Like having one shot where an archer pulls, then release the arrow, and then a target (Preferable human) getting hit by the arrow.

[@joshuabrown6256]

Wren! Help us with things like body (or anything) tracking for arrows, swords, and stuff! 2d and 3d!

[@okofreak01]

+SkintSNIPER262 I know a guy that uses real arrows. And interns.

[@DumbeldoresArmy1]

Teach us fume fx plz

[@Angeschrien]

I really wondered how you did the "Minecraft Wall Explosion" in the John Cena Video - especially the texturing part! A Tutorial would be really great! :) To this one: I really liked the outcome of the Sparks, but I'll may use the "flickering" preset in the Opacity over life tab - that may looks a bit more real! Great one Wren! :)

[@hawkspiral]

I just spent the last hour and a half going through all of the videos on this channel, and man, you have come a *long* way. I applaud you, good sir.

[@dudeyousuckreally]

Love the way you manage the tutorial. Light, fun, and to the point.

[@squarepixelscanada2567]

That's exactly what I needed to learn. We need more of these tutorials.

[@DHPshow]

Well that was just a very good tutorial. I love how you explain every single number instead of just putting it in because then you learn something instead of just getting a preset handed.

[@Jay-fs2nw]

So I subbed to this channel before you guys were doing bi-daily vlogs on Sam and Niko, and finding out this wren is that wren, completely wrened me out! I was just wrened when I saw this. Anyway hope you use this channel more wren!

[@Filmov]

Finally your back! The master has returned from Corrior Digital to make another great tutorial!

[@wil12t]

damn, I just subscribed today, even if I saw you didn't make any videos for a year, and 1 hour later you post a new video, that's amazing!

[@SirWrender]

Haha no kidding?! Sweet! Welcome to the channel!

[@wil12t]

Thanks!

[@DanceManAlex]

Keep up the tutorials! Keep creating! Your tutorials are always such a joy to watch!

[@WolfGodwin]

How did I miss this? I thought I had subscribed earlier this year. Great tutorial, especially on the saving animation presets. Trapcode Particular is on my wish list.

[@Enzait]

Whoa, it's been a while for this channel! Welcome back Wren :D

[@ckay11002]

I watched the entire video. I don't even own After Effects.

[@rizwananwar4117]

really ?

[@马玉媛]

哈哈哈哈哈哈

[@KnightAlmighty]

𓇘𓇘𓇘𓇘𓇘𓇘𓇘

[@sparrowhawk619]

samee

[@Keyboard_ink]

XD

[@NathanJEllerton]

Love it man, great work, very useful and entertaining. Keep it up!

[@bzboii]

Master Wrenderer! Thanks so much for your tutorials and energy - theyve inspired me to push myself and work hard on vfx and little movies. Thanks :)

[@SirWrender]

Awesome!! Glad to hear!

[@MaynardRojenEsplanada]

Hi Wren! I love your videos! And finally you're back! :D

[@FreakFizzer]

I love you wren. One of the best VFX artists on KZbin. Love me back please.

[@ChrisChavers1]

I like this. Seeing the different types embers gives me ideas for different types of settings, uses, even stories that can be told. Example, I'm playing a miner in a video, I can use this for when I use my pickaxe on the rocks I'm "mining" to really sell the idea. Sweet!

[@maxxender]

So fun! Looks great and I can imagine so many uses for this.

[@ickym7788]

That was indeed really interesting and helpful! I hope you will post some more tutorials like this!

[@bockysblog813]

Hey Wren! I've recently started binge watching both the main Corridor digital and the Sam & Niko channels! Being a motion design myself I love your work! I would love to learn more from you man so keep the tutorials coming! 👍

[@ClimaxDigitalProductions]

Bocky's Blog SAME!!!

[@MrAudienceMember2662015]

Great to see a new video from you in my alerts! Thanks for the lesson.

[@Blazah99]

welcome back! Its been a while since your last tutorial video so I hoper planning on making more soon, Btw fun/good tutorial. :)

[@JaPls]

Finally, I've been waiting for Wren to start posting again

[@hcl8836]

That's what i call a tutorial :-) No shit chat, detailed explanations, good to follow and nothing annoying ... Great!!!

[@XavierMaire1]

In the end there was so many sparks it looked like the first next gen consoles trailer we had Gotta love dem particles

[@WazeyFX]

THANK YOU! i've been looking everywhere for this kind if tutorial

[@starblastpro2959]

Learning to do those smoke effects could be really cool or your cool Harry Potter wand tricks would be awesome to learn

[@gaurisam]

You the real MVP dawg! Insane stuff. Love your work. :)

[@ABorealisMoon]

I'm not sure I would ever need to use this, but I watched it and learned things.

[@samuelhildebrandt9074]

Thank you sooo much i didn't know that the glitching was fixed by changing the seed, I was all over the internet trying to find out how to fix it.

[@mariusfinnstun]

Oh, nice! I've used particular for a while, but man, there was so much I didn't know! Thanks!

[@CowfaicdRealm]

I actually didn't even think about the possibility of particle systems in After Effects, even less their existence, this is so cool though, I'm definetely going to play around with this a bunch :D

[@UnremarkableSteve]

Yay, glad to see a new video up!

[@RaxeCAT]

I enjoyed every bit of this video. Do more tutorials please! I really want to do a Harry Potter VFX video at some point and this could already cover the most part :D

[@PhotonVideos]

THANK YOU WREN!! PLZ KEEP THIS UP IF YOU CAN FIND THE TIME.

[@iwasakisony1]

amazing! Glad to see you back^^

[@rocinlab3043]

Hey wren,you r rockn..but man,its not fair.you make some of us waiting so long for EPICTORIAL..keep rock bro.

[@eftorq]

Very cool tutorial! I just yesterday started playing around with trapcode and tried some kind of air bubbles and water animation. I'm going to upload it in the next days. I'm excited for your future tutorials

[@amagicman]

Finally back

[@WilliamsAING]

I love you guy your tutorials are amazing !

[@hawkspiral]

Hooray for the return of the epictorial! :D

[@thatsnotright]

The random seed is probably used to generate when a particle is emitted and control the initial position, velocity and direction the particle flies. If you find one you like you would probably be able to copy that seed number and get the same results every time, though that kind of detracts from the natural feel if you use the same number every time. Anyway that's how I suspect that number ties in with what's going on with the emitter.

[@twin11797]

I actually have no reason whatsoever to watch this video because I don't have after effects and don't ever make videos, but I watched the whole thing because Wren seems like a cool guy

[@Chribit]

still learning stuff after all those years :D thanks! wasn't aware of some settings ^^

[@xof5235]

I love this stops being a tutorial. And ends up with you experimenting

[@TacosBrotherhood]

Your tutorials are always awesome! This has been really useful :D Could you do one about fire/explosion simulation?

[@boomierogers1243]

Awesome! You’re a great teacher bro. Thanks a bunch. Subbed!!

[@tvepiccz]

So this was one heluva tutorial! Thx a milion, it really saved my day!

[@Telic]

hey do you need any music for your films? i would love to supply some!

[@FrancescoFilmz]

Would you make music for my videos? I make similar videos :D

[@SirWrender]

Hey yeah! Shoot me an email! It's in my about section on youtube

[@drz5102]

Wonderful video you and sam and niko have been a true inspiration to what i can accomplish. You guys have inspired me to do vfx, music, and practical fx, while learning more and more about filming. i can do this all by watching your behind the scenes and what not. Thank you so much and i hope that you and sam and niko and the crew knows how much you guys have helped me and made me a better person. Thank again!!!

[@Sojhi]

Yesssss!!! Im gonna make a video short with this effect!!

[@JordanFountain]

Woo! This is truly epic

[@VideoCraze]

That was sick! Great job and thanks so much for releasing the presets :) It would be cool if you could recreate a screen accurate Kylo Ren lightsaber.

[@DavidKahlVFX]

Very helpful - thanks. I need to practice more to deliver that kind of energy in a tutorial :)

[@beckierohr3866]

Thank you so much!! Exactly what I was looking for.

[@AbdullahYazbahar]

This is looking incridible !

[@JulianAbreu]

As an advanced user i can say i learned a lot when you were talking about the differents settings! so thank you! sadly we can't use both bounce and air modes...but i thinking that with some displacement it could be possible to replicate the fx while using the bounce mode.

[@SirWrender]

Thanks! Displacement is a good idea but I'm not sure how well it'd work. You can try using several different instances, with some set to air and some set to bounce maybe?

[@JulianAbreu]

i'm not sure either. Yeah that could work, but it will all depend on the camera angle when it comes to compositing. Dr Strange Trailer gave us a good look to what we're talking. those are simulation yeah, but I believe they can be replicated with particular..you should try something like that in corridor haha Cheers!

[@vaneykvisuals3511]

More VFX Tutorials, Love them

[@MalikRockie00]

The WREN is back !!!!!

[@ToTchPro]

So First welcome back !! we are happy to see your tut again :v nice tut bro but what's about smoke you told us you will put tut about smoke where's it O.o thanks again :D

[@hyperdrivepics]

Wren taught Ember. It's super effective! Side note/question, Wren have you noticed any errors or bugs when animating Particular using light emitter layers lately? Been weird for me in the last couple upgrades.

[@SirWrender]

Huh, how weird. I've not noticed that glitch.

[@BayareaJay]

Sweet! Thanks a lot Wren!

[@MiRaje8086]

My computer can't wrender this

[@Hostilenemy]

You can't just......

[@NjniaVanDerWald]

just upgrade to win10 (¤◇¤)

[@Infinatie_]

+Njnia van der Wald because a new OS always helps......

[@NjniaVanDerWald]

Kabi TK that joke just flew so far over your head, it almost crashed into a scyscraper.

[@MiRaje8086]

***** can't just what

[@callumrussell]

These are great keep them coming!

[@KwasnikPictures]

Youre back to the channel! Its been a year. THUNMS up for more Wrender videos

[@K_shabby]

Great Tutorial! Thanks Wren :)

[@InsomaniacFiles]

I've been wondering wren you were going to upload a new video!

[@simonwadlington5343]

Thanks dude for the tutorial! I am Yetifurrs brother and Im going to be helping make the Air Bender video as well. Thanks for the tutorial and i will be using it. You are so cool and cant wait to see more!

[@MDigitalProductions]

Wren's making Tutorials again !!! (yes I know he works for Corridor Digital xD )

[@expiai]

HE'S BACK!!!!!!!!

[@Zafybaka]

Thanks for this Wren!

[@Fujank]

Yes~~~ please make more tutorials 'cause I wanna learn more >

[@heybuddy3396]

Congrats. +1 sub you earned it We missed your vids

[@rocketeersteele546]

WREN! I LOVE YOU!

[@mesk.oficial]

The wife leave you work. Finally kkkkkkk ♥♥♥ Welcome back :)

[@aSkeletonCrew]

Hi Wren! Awesome to see you're back! I actually used effects of some of your previous tutorials in my VFX videos, it'd be really cool if you could take a look and give some feedback!

[@willygera]

omg yes i love this pls give more tutorials!

[@vfx_jon]

Love your videos. I used this tutorial in my own work

[@spencerwad]

Thank you! Just in time for a Last Airbender video I am doing. I think this will really help with the "fire bending"! You are truly a VFX wizard! Do you have any tips for doing bending effects? Thanks for uploading this!

[@SirWrender]

I don't really have any tips. I made a similar video to that though a few years back called Elemental Kombat. Check out the breakdown for it! There are also a bunch of tutorials for it too.

[@spencerwad]

Ok, thanks! I'll check out that breakdown for sure!

[@iKapustin]

Thats exactly what i needed!

[@yafatana]

thank you please keep do more after effects tutorials .

[@timetsully3863]

Bravo ! C'est formidabuleux :)

[@EnaMikroSfugaraki]

You are an artist...

[@iboproductions177]

Wow great tutoriales thanks man!!!

[@RipRecords]

I need to add some Fire Embers in 3D space so when the camera zooms in and out on the Z access all the embers are floating around in 3D Z-Space...is this something you could help with?? Would be willing to hire you to help with this...

[@emiljohansen6770]

Awesome tutorial, Wren! The video only left me with one question, who were the people shouting in the backround there?

[@ryokogreg]

thank you awesome tutorial again !

[@alexanderfeldman1230]

Wren's back!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@HamzaOuaziz]

I love ur attitude

[@Oo-dy1qz]

Welcome back :D

[@TheSkoosKa]

great tutorial!! could you show us how you put 3d blocks into your videos like in your mario video

[@FilmTechNZ]

Do more tutorials :D you're so good!

[@WladcyCrafta]

Dear Wren! Could you show us compositing magic?: How to make your effects form 3dsmax or maya looks more realistic in your video?

[@SirWrender]

Good idea!

[@MrFOuadsb]

i miss this

[@TikeLeSpike]

How about a tutorial on how you did the smoke effects in the OMEn Chronicles?

[@bayurahmawan123]

Love the tutorial !

[@CronasGaming]

Please show how to make the smoke effects from the Omen Chronicles 😊

[@TalkThisOut]

Holy shit Wren you make videos!!!

[@Infinatie_]

Hey wren.... I was hoping you could do a trapcode Mir tutorial for anything

[@mariasilver8579]

I am actually interested in how you started making special effects ( how much time it took you, when you started what was the first program you used for editing, are you thinking about making a movie or making special effects for huge movies) ..YOU ARE GREAT ..that's obvious but tell us about your life ..that could really be very cool

[@TheDangerousBrew]

This is the best!