Skip to content

Editors run on coffee and cookies.

Ours are the stats, ads and better-emails kind. Sorry, no chocolate chips. Privacy policy

Statistics

Google Analytics counts visits and sales.

Advertising

Google may use your visits for ads.

Personalised emails

Our emails follow what you look at here.

Set your Head on Fire like in Home Alone (After Effects)

Jordy Vandeput 136K views

Learn how to set your head on fire like Harry from Home Alone. In this Adobe After Effects tutorial we'll see how to create our own fire effects and track it with your subject.

Download Fire Assets

Another busy week and another Copy Cat Friday. When you look outside you can see all the Christmas decorations. And this means Christmas is right around the corner. But it also means, Christmas movies! And what is the most famous Christmas movie? Yes, you guessed it, Home Alone. Everyone has seen this movie more then once. It's even a tradition in belgium that every belgian Tv-channel plays this movie during Christmas. So we have to do something from this movie, it's a must!

Another busy week and another Copy Cat Friday. When you look outside you can see all the Christmas decorations. And this means Christmas is right around the corner. But it also means, Christmas movies! And what is the most famous Christmas movie? Yes, you guessed it, Home Alone. Everyone has seen this movie more then once. It's even a tradition in belgium that every belgian Tv-channel plays this movie during Christmas. So we have to do something from this movie, it's a must!

That's why we decided to recreate the scene where harry the burglar tries to break in and gets his head set on fire. It's one of the iconic scenes from the movie and they even did it in the sequel. This effect is of course done in post production. Because setting a persons head on fire isn't the best idea. Hell, using fire in general isn't a good idea. That's why we strongly advice you not to do anything with fire at home. We did it for you in safe in environment, so that you didn't have to. You can download our fire assets by clicking on the download button below.

You guys are also probably wondering when we are doing a 1 million Celebration video. Well we are working on it. We are doing it a little bit different then last time with 500k. We noticed that some of you were disappointed with not winning last time. This time we want to do something for everyone, so that everyone can be happy. But that's not all. We also want to do something for charity and give back to the ones who really need it. But I don't want to spoil the surprise, so you have to wait for the announcement video. Jordy will then explain everything in detail.

StoryBlocks Video

This video was supported by Storyblocks Video, an easy to use site full of stock footage, After Effects templates, backgrounds, motion Graphics and much more.

Jordy Vandeput

Founder of Cinecom · 2.75M+ subscribers on YouTube

Jordy Vandeput is a Belgian filmmaker who has taught practical filmmaking to millions through Cinecom. He breaks professional techniques down into clear, repeatable steps you can use on your very next project.

Join the conversation

2 comments

Replying to

Never shown. Used only to notify you of replies.

photoArt 7 years ago

Cool :) And Raj Download fire effects are in the description :)

Anand Raj 7 years ago

I am Raj from India...this site so amazing I like to all videos ..but can I downloaded effect in free ........ please give me response me..and please connected in helping people group ...

Couldn’t load more. Try again.
Cinecom Complete Bundle

Every course. Every pack. One price.

  • 14 courses
  • 24 video packs
  • 1 partner deal
  • Every future release
$197 Total value: $1,704.70 Save 88%