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How to Create Fire with your Hands in After Effects

Surfaced Studio 2014-09-10 09:55 tutorial  > After Effects  > compositing

Set your thumb on fire!

 

If you want to follow along with this tutorial, you can download the footage here: https://bit.ly/1tatmMu
and the background image here: https://bit.ly/1qwX8rs

For the fire element Surfaced Studio is using Action Essentials 2 by Video Copilot. You can get it here: https://www.videocopilot.net/products...

You can also find some free fire elements on
https://footagecrate.com/fire.html

It is easy to do some motion tracking and attach a basic stock footage element of fire onto your hands, but there is a little bit of work involved if you actually want to make it look good.

After tracking a thumb, we will use a looping fire stock footage element and set thumb on fire! With the help of a delta null object and some clever expressions to bend the fire. Finally we will add some advanced lighting to the scene using the Difference Matte effect to avoid spending hours rotoscoping.

Author: Surfaced Studio Editor: Michal Franczak
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