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Lorenzo they're my cookies!
[Woosh]
No, Yannick, seems like the cookie will be mine!
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Hey guys, Yannick here for Cinecom.net
and welcome back to another Copycat Friday.
And today we are going to Netflix and create
wink-wink
I recently started with a new series called Warrior Nun
and it was like two days ago and I really lik it.
And the best thing about it are the effects that we can recreate.
Like this super cool Vaper-Evading-Effect that we are creating today.
I know it's not the best name, but you know what I mean.
However this series is full of effects and who knows maybe we can do some more effects in the future.
Let us know in the comments below if you would like that,
but for now hit the montage.
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Okay shooting everything is quite simple.
Just take out your Tripod and then we are going to place our actor who is going to vaporize in the frame.
Behind them we are placing a green-screen to make it ourselves easier.
Let the actor do his thing like jumping up a little bit and after this he can move out of the frame.
Next up is the actor who will be swinging the bat.
Again place him in the frame and let them swing his bat.
We are filming this separately because we really want the bat close enough to go through our vaporizing actor.
And you also need to see the bat go through the actor in the end effect.
And that is why we need these actors on separate clips.
And once you have that we can start with the post-production in After Effects.
And the first thing you can do is place the swinging actor into a composition and the vaporizing actor above that.
Of course green key the vaporizing actor with the key lights and mask out the rest on the clip.
Look at that! The two actors are in the same scene.
Now we will start with the vaporizing effect.
Duplicate the clip of the vaporizing actor and look for the point just before they get hit by the bat.
Now on this duplicate we can make a cut just before that hit.
Next up create a solid layer,
place it on top of everything and also let it start at the same time as the duplicate.
On the solid layer we will add the Fracal Noise effect
and we are going to use this layer as a track matte for our duplicate vaporizing actor.
So adjust the settings of your Fractal Noise to your likings.
You can really do whatever you want.
We went for the Smeary Fractical type and a larger scale.
When you are done with the settings set the track matte option of the duplicate vapor actor clip to Luma Matte
and this will already give you a vaporizing effect.
But we only want this around the place where the bats swings.
So create a mask around this area and animate the mask so that it follows along with the bat coming in
And this already looks great,
but we're also gonna animate a Fractal Noise effect.
On the point where the bat is in the middle of our vapor actor, the aporizing needs to be at its maximum.
Here, you can create keyframes for the brightness and the contrast.
Towards the beginning and the end the vaporizing needs to disappear, so increase both the properties.
Next, also animate the Sub Rotation, the Sub Offset and Evolution a little bit.
Just enough to give that feeling that the vapor is moving in the same way as the bats wings.
All these animations happen within timeframe of 10 frames.
So that's quite fast.
And oh, yeah
don't forget to ease in and ease out of the key frame.
Next, we are going to work with the original vaporizing actor.
We also need to maskh this clip, otherwise, you won't see any vapor.
We are again going to do this for the track matte,
this way we can rough any edges of the hole we are creating.
So create a new solid layer and place this in between the duplicates vapor clip and the original vapor clip.
The first step:
Create an animated mask on the new solid just like we did before.
Once this is done add the Roughen Edges Effect to the new solid.
Here again play around with the settings until you have something you like.
Let's set the draTrack Matte option of the original vapor actor clip to alpha inverted matte
and this will leave you with an already cool vapor effect.
But
we still have some details to go over.
The first one is the Angel Halo in the back of our Warrior Nun.
And well, I don't really have an Angel Halo
so I use this Fire RIng asseta from Storyblocks Video
which happens to be the sponsor of today.
Storyblocks Video is my go to stock video website that I recommend to every filmmaker.
And I'm not saying this because they are sposoring us, no!
I genuinely like the assets they have and they always provide me with something I need.
From 4k Stock clips to easy to customize After Effects templates.
They have it all and more!
So guys take my word for it and start downloading from Storyblocks Video
because when paying one single price per year you can download an unlimited amount of video assets.
To start downloading go to the first link in the description below.
Okay, now that we have our ring, place it underneath the vaporizing actor.
By enabling the 3D function
we can now position and rotate the fire ring in the correct spot on the back of our actor.
Then set the blending mode of the ring to "Add" and next drag the glow effect to the fire ring for some extra glow.
Again set the settings to your likings.
Now to give the fire ring some extra dimensions we are going to make it bend together with the swing.
Look for the liquify effect and drag that to the fire ring.
Enable the animation for the distortion mesh on the moment that the ring becomes visible.
Go five frames further in time and now you can liquifyy the ring in the same direction as your swing is.
Okay, we are almost there guys, stick by me!
We just need a few more details.
Select everything and pre-comp it all.
Next duplicate the precomposed layer and this duplicate we are going to use for some extra vaporizing.
To do this add the Displacement Map attack to the duplicates.
Next create a new Solid layer and here we can add the free Video Copilot Plugin called Saber.
Set the preset to Nebula and the glow color to white
then create three or more mask lines on the solid layer,
go back in the saber settings and under the customized core property
you can set the core type to layered masks.
Now change the track matte option of the duplicate pre-comp layer to luma matte
and animate the three mask lines to open up and close again.
Now go back to the duplicate pre-comp layer and within the displacement effect change some settings.
Set the Displacement Map layer to the saber layer and also enable effects and masks.
Next, set the horizontal and the vertical displacement to Luminance
and now you can change the values of both the horizontal displacement as the vertical displacement.
Then add the factor blur to the duplicate vapor clip and increase the amount and softness.
Now, the only thing you need to do is add some extra sparks and particles.
And guys
you're on luck today.
It just happens to be that we made these two assets especially for you.
You can find the download link in the description below
and maybe, just maybe
there's even a project file in there.
And that is how you make this vaporizing effect from Warrior Nun.
[Woosh]
And now for a
Yannicks
Fun
Fact
FOUUUUNTAAAAAIIIINNNN!
Did you know that Warrior Nun is based on an American Manga style comic book
named Warrior Nun Ariella?
In the comic books Ariella is a Valkyrie who were renounced her pagan beliefs
and turned to Jesus for salvation.
That's dramatic!
She then bares her soul into immmortal and that way she lives on forever.
Taking in new mortal everytime it dies.
And well the series is more or less the same
but instead of a warrior's soul, you have an Angel halo that makes an Nun Warrior Nun.
Potatoe potato.
But I'm not going to spoil anything else.
Just go to Netflix and watch it.
And that was it for today guys!
Thank you so much for watching, I hope you learned something new today.
Thank you Storyblocks Video for the support and like always
Stay creative!
[Yannick whistling]