Hey! Everyone welcome to Backyard FX. This week, we’re going back to basic to showing you how to make a Star Trek Transporter Effect.
All of you probably know there is a new Star Trek movie coming out with fancy special effects and Eric Bana. Well here in Indy Mogul, we thought we will take a step back and recreate some more retro special effects. Also, its not forget you the Indy Mogul community this Transporter Effect was requested by fighterfat11, cityscape pictures, moviemagicman, crazy productions, and CIJN productions. We’re actually going to show you two different ways to create this effect but first we need to know our budget.
Shopping List, a small fish tank, some golden silver glitter, a clamp light, and some black fabric.
This project is rated skill level four. All right, we are in the workshop and this week we are going to mostly focus on creating the classic transporter effect from the original Star Trek TV series and this effect is delightfully can be and rooted in practical special effects. Which means a lot of you are probably thinking why I am just go straight to computer and do this digitally with the after effects or after emotion and you absolutely can and honestly, it might be a little bit faster. But if you don’t have any of those fancy computer programs or you just want to get your hamster, you can do this retro style then BFX is here to help.
The practical part of these effects is pretty simple. First, set up a couple of boxes and cover them with some black fabric. Next, set your fish tank on these boxes to make surely the gap at the bottom for a light to shine through. Now, you can hang the rest of your black fabric behind the tank and set up your clamp light underneath. Fill the tank of water and set up your camera on a tripod. Now, dump a tonic glitter inside and turn off all the lights except for your one clamp light, turn on the camera, and stir like crazy. Congratulations! You have just created the custom particle effect.
Now it’s time to add some computer magic. Once you’ve got your footage into your editing software, the first you want to do is add—then you can color correct, rotate, test with the speed or whatever else you want to going to do to tweak the particles. To add this effect to the actual transporters scene, you will need to isolate your character in Photoshop. With your subjects separated from your background, you can manipulate and add the energy effect to only your character with some more tweaking a lot of cross result and a cool sound effect you just recreated at classic sci-fi effect.
As promised, here is another quick way to create the Transporter Effect without getting glitter under your nails. Step one, set up your camera on a tripod and film your actor getting ready to be transported. Step two, have your actor walk off camera and film about 15 seconds of an open frame. Step three, go to indymogul.com and download our one size fits all version of the energy effect. Step four, take your two clips, put them in your editing software and use a cross dissolve to make your actor be the way. Then place your energy effect on top of that and your good to go.
And we’re done with another BFX build episode and remember, if you’re not a big Star Trek fan, you can use the same technique to make people or things magically disappear, explode, or just fade away. But for those of you who are Star Trek fans, I got to know which Star Trek movies is your favorite? For me, its number six Undiscovered Country, you got the ship back in fire, well cloaked, come on. But tell us your favorite by leaving a comment down below.
If you’re going to fill a fish tank with glitter in water you should be very careful when disposing of it because it gets all over the place.
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