AC-130 Night TUTORIAL in Adobe After Effects - part 2

In part2 of this Adobe After Effects tutorial video, we move onto animating the aircraft and camera, as well as firing the gun for this night time AC-130 gunship scene using Element 3D and Video Copilot Jet Strike.
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[@Keepingthefaith72]

Many thanks for the tutorial , Its been well worth the wait ..... Awesome ..

[@stevesiroissr6165]

I am a former AC-130 gunner. That last flash is still a bit big but that will work for theatrical purposes. That would be the 105mm howitzer. The 40mm flash is about 20% of that flash . The 105 is single shot and at best can fire one every 20-30 sec. The 40mm in rapid fire is 100 rounds per minute.

[@IndependentVFX]

WOW! Awesome to get a comment from somebody whose operated the real thing. What altitude would you fire that 105mm from or is that sensitive information?

[@stevesiroissr6165]

@@IndependentVFX nothing sensitive. But typically between 10-18k ft.

[@IndependentVFX]

@@stevesiroissr6165 interesting... I would have thought altitude would be really dangerous for MANPADS

[@stevesiroissr6165]

@@IndependentVFX Now that is when it becomes tricky and sensitive. Let’s put it this way, they have things that keep them very safe

[@chinthup.m7508]

Awesome work...! love from kerala

[@GlobalRaiders]

Waiting for this amazing tutorial for 1 year. thx man

[@rohankedar1369]

AMAZZINGGG MY MAN. KEEP MAKING ELEEMENT 3D STUFF

[@carloschen3961]

Thanks a lot!!! Amazing work!!

[@ShampooWow]

Nice video! I like it

[@bluesk1d]

Looks great. The only thing that gives it away is the fact that the smoke behaves as if it was fired from a stationary gun. It should move into the distance quickly much like the engine exhaust would.

[@IndependentVFX]

Good point! Thanks

[@joefalcione8059]

Very Cool! Thanks Scott!

[@IndependentVFX]

Thanks Joe!

[@sable1wolf1]

I am new to After Affects, but you have a new subscriber. Impressive tutorial, thank you very much!

[@IndependentVFX]

Thanks David! I hope you enjoy our other tutorials

[@knatter247]

Really great tutorial, as usual! Just a quick tip, using the "Generate 3D Posistion" feature of Element is a much faster and easier way to position objects and lights around your model. And you can use the "Mesh Visibility" function to isolate the canon and make it recoil when it fires! :)

[@IndependentVFX]

Thats a great tip on the cannon! Thanks for that! I had another crazy stupid method I was playing around with using colour keys in the texture map. Mesh visibility makes way more sense!

[@Said.Qadeer]

Wow sir pretty good I Love your hard Work

[@manueljt5549]

Fantástico vídeo,, felicidades desde España, un saludo

[@Johnny100a]

Cool!!!!!!!!

[@ArtTwitch]

Thank you very much ! I would like to become vfx later and your tutorial teaches me a lot of things!

[@IndependentVFX]

Thanks for the comment, good luck with becoming a VFX artist - its a very rewarding and enjoyable career

[@solofoarimananatianamarcel318]

Great job and thank you for this second tutorial continue like this:) Could you please make tutorial using tracers in particular please? what you had is truly amazing thank you in advance.

[@IndependentVFX]

Yes! We will definitely cover a tracer tutorial in the near future. Thanks so much for your feedback!

[@3Dpixelframe]

Nice work!!!

[@IndependentVFX]

Thanks!

[@emmetofarrell]

He's back

[@thecreepbible7766]

Sick as usual! You should do tutorials on The metropolitan pack, as know one has mastered those yet and I bet you'd make them look better.

[@IndependentVFX]

Thanks! I actually dont have that pack, but its a good suggestion. I might have to look into getting it.

[@KevinStCroix]

Nice.

[@ashkemvfx5502]

awesome

[@IndependentVFX]

Hi Paula - so Im assuming you know to access Jet Strike via the Element interface in After Effects? I Think all it does it install the models and textures to your hard drive and then the "app" just gets accessed through Element in After Effects. On my Mac, If I look inside the AE folder there is a plugins folder, and inside there is a Video Copilot folder with Element installed as a plugin. If you install the latest version of Element then I think it has the Jet Strike functionality built in. When you install Jet Strike you are actually just copying the models and textures to your drive.

[@GikePeterson]

need some post effects like a little bit of unsharp mask, chromatic aberration, glare and noise..

[@hahalee8355]

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