Hey guys,
Yannick here for Cinecom.net
and welcome back to Copycat Friday.
And today will be a very special tutorial
because it's going to be our first 3d tutorial.
And better yet, is going to be my first 3d experience.
So in other words, I'm learning together with you.
Now, the fake 3d hologram effect is actually two tutorials.
We need to make the HUD from the glasses but this is the exact same principle as the Iron Man HUD,
and we already made this.
So I'm going to skip this step and go right to making the floating 3d object.
If you want to know more on how to create these HUDs,
I'll leave a link to the Iron Man tutorial in the description below.
And who knows?
Maybe there will be a bonus for those who watch until the end.
Wink, wink.
Now, what do we need for the effect?
Of course, we need a 3d model.
We found ours for free on TurboSquid.
Then you need some footage.
Now, because it's our first 3d tutorial
we're going to make it ourselves easy and shoot from a tripod.
Then the last thing you'll need are glasses,
because
otherwise we lied in our title.
We have these cool MVMT glasses,
which are perfect for this effect.
Now besides being stylish and looking good,
the everscroll glasses also have a very important role here at the office.
We are constantly working with digital screens and sometimes for
very long hours.
This of course can be very harsh on your eyes.
Science told us that blue light waves keep our brain awake
and overexposure to these light waves
can cause some health issues like eye strain or headaches.
And that's where MVMT comes in.
With their everscroll glasses
they protect our eyes from the blue light waves.
Now,
skeptic as we are, we put that to the test.
Gilles wore the glasses for over a month to see what effect it would have
and guys...
Gilles approves.
You can compare the movement glasses to the eye comfort stand on your smartphone,
the only difference is that the glasses won't turn your screen yellow like the smartphone setting.
In fact, the glasses won't alter the colors in any way,
so they are perfect for color grading.
If you want some cool MVMT glasses for your own,
go to the first link in the description below,
and save 15% using that link.
Now that we have our shot, it's time for the post-production.
Open up Blender.
We are going to use a free TurboSquid model, but you can use whatever you want.
The first step is to animate our object.
Select your box and go to the property toolbar on the right.
Here you can select the object properties.
On the very right of this tab, you see little dots.
With these dots you can set keyframes.
We are going to click on the Z location and the Z rotation.
Now in the timeline on the bottom enable the auto keyframing.
Just check this little box.
Now if you go 25 frames further in time and move your box up,
you can see that blender automatically makes keyframes.
Now to make it ourselves easy,
again, go 25 frames further in time,
select our first keyframes,
copy them and paste them where our playhead is at.
Now repeat the copy and pasting of the previous keyframes until the end of the timeline.
Now for the rotation you can simply rotate it a bunch until it's okay for you.
Look at that, we already have a moving box.
Next up is placing the box on the right spot.
Select your camera in the collection tab and go to the camera property.
Here enable the background image option and add the image you want.
Now if we look through the active camera,
we can see the background image.
Again, go to the object properties
while your camera is still selected.
And with the location and rotation,
you can now position your object in the right spot.
We're going fast guys.
Next up is the lighting and for this we are going to use a HDRI image.
In plain words,
it's a 360 image of your environment.
Now, how do we add this to our object?
Open your shading tab and the first thing you can do is change the shader data
from object to world.
Then add a node with pressing shift + a.
This will give you a drop-down menu.
Go to the texture option and choose the environment texture,
this will create a new node.
Now take the color dot and drag that to the background color dot.
Click on open and select your image.
Now because our HDRI isn't on the right spot,
we need to rotate it.
So let's add two more nodes to fix that.
Press shift + a, go to vector and choose mapping.
Again, press shift + a,
go to input and choose texture coordinates.
Now link the generated dot with the input vector dot of the mapping node
and the output vector dot with the vector node of the enviroment texture.
Damn! 3d is complicated.
But with these nodes you can now easily rotate your HDRI so you lighting will match the scene.
And that's it.
You can always change the material settings of your box,
but that is something personal.
Now the last step is rendering, because we need to get it from Blender to After Effects.
Go to the render properties and under the film tab you can enable the transparent option.
Next, go to the output properties.
There you can set the file format to MPEG video.
Under the encoding tab you can set a container to quicktime
and the video codec to PNG.
After that, you can enable the RGBA option,
which allows you to render with an alpha layer.
And last but not least,
change the location you want to render to.
This way you can easily find everything later on.
Once you have set that, let's render it all out.
Go to the render tab on top
and choose render animation and that's it.
Now load your shot in After Effects and let's start with creating the hologram effect.
Place the shot in your comp,
and the first thing you can do is create the shadow of the box.
So duplicate the background and with the lumetri effect
we are going to make that duplicate darker.
If we now create a mask in the same shape as the box and animate the opacity,
we already have this cool floating box.
Now let's add the glowing circle,
and we are starting with the highlight on the floor.
Make a blue solid and place it underneath the box.
First, let's create a mask in the shape that you want your glow.
Then look for the vegas effect and drag that to the solid.
In the effect control panel you can now adjust the settings.
First max out the segments,
then set the blending mode to stencil,
adjust the color to blue and the width to around 20.
Normally you would now have a blue circle on the floor.
Also add the directional blur to the solid
and set the blur line to around 10.
After that, duplicate the solid above everything
and delete the two effects.
In the effect library you can now look for the CC light burst effect
and drag that to the duplicate solid layer.
Adjust the center of the effect and place it underneath the circle.
This will make the light rays go upward.
Now increase intensity to around 190
and that's it.
If you want, you can always use a corner pin effect to make the glow straight up.
Again, a personal choice.
Last but not least,
set the blending modes of the two solid layers to add for a better blending.
Then decrease the opacity of the box to around 60%,
add a simple white glow effect,
and if you want a venetian blind effect for the hologram look.
And that's it, you now have this super cool
fake 3d floating hologram box.
Now for the people who are still watching,
I have a reward for you, guys!
If you go to the description below, you can find a link to download our own HUD completely free.
How easy is that?
And
Let's all thank Lorenzo for making that HUD.
Send your love in the comments below.
Now, before I say goodbye,
it's time for
Yannick's Fun Fact Fountain!
Well,
it's not really a fun fact.
More like an announcement.
Did you know that we are doing daily stories on YouTube?
Every Cinecom member has its own segment.
Gilles recommends movies on Monday,
Lorenzo shows off his socks on Tuesday,
I spread my fun facts on Wednesday,
and Jordy is being silly with tips on Thursday
There are four reasons to don't miss out on all that daily awesomeness.
And that was it, guys.
I hope you liked our first 3d tutorial.
Let us know in the comments below if you want more tutorials like this.
Thank you so much for watching.
Thank you MVMT for the support.
And like always...
Stay creative!
𝅘𝅥𝅮 Blue light protection 𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮 Everybody wants those MVMT glasses 𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮 Because they give protection 𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮 Protection against the blue light 𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮 Light is blue 𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮 Light is bad 𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮 Luck we have MVMT glasses 𝅘𝅥𝅮