nothing what do you mean nothing nobody said anything about this before
keep trying like it's getting worse and i feel tingly
that's gross invisibility is a superpower that we all kind of wish that
we had and today we're going to show you how to do it for free in HitFilm
Express if you want to follow along the project
file is down in the description but before we get into it as always like
this video subscribe if you haven't already and let's just jump into it
okay so we're here in HitFilm 15 and uh let's take a look at what we're working
with in the effect that we use for the opening sketch we actually have
quite a lot of different layers going on for the actual effect itself we have
some footage uh a luma mat some distortions and a
light going on so let's get into this i'm gonna first start off by making a
new composite shot by adding my footage down to here and here
we go because we're turning someone invisible
it's a lot easier and handier to have a clean plate of your scene
so we have that available for us so i'll bring this in and bring that
below my footage layer and the first step of this effect we're going to be
keying out the green screen behind us and masking the area that we only want
to keep so i'm going to go down to keying and
grab color difference key and add that to my footage
go into the controls panel and as you can see it's already doing something
so what we can do is turn on the view matte
and we're just gonna bring this in until we get rid of
some of that oh no definitely gonna change the gamma there we go that's a
little bit better nice so i'm going to switch this switch the
view matte back off and uh yeah we have a and there we have a key out
great as you can see from the still my elbow actually went over the green
screen so if you did something similar you're
gonna have to mask out the area but between you and me
i'm gonna pinch my mask from uh the the final one so you don't have to watch me
mask around my elbow that's some quality content so with my masks in place
and my key complete you should have something like this with your actor
pretty simple straightforward really easy and if you're wondering about my
masks all i've got one that highlights my my
green screen area and then a roto of my elbow and i need to learn
how to position myself once we have our actor set we're going
to duplicate this footage go into effects and in the color
difference key switch on view matte what we're going to
do now is make this into its own composite shot
and we're going to name this luma or david
if you like and make sure to move all the properties along with this clip
back into our footage layer i've just realized that i've still got these open
so once we have our luma composite shot we
can actually turn this off for a bit we don't need to see it
with the main footage of our actor let's give this a rename to
edges because although we can completely remove our actor in place that's no fun
we kind of want that weird distortion that you get from looking through
plastic and glass so let's try and recreate that and show
a little bit of edges we're going to start off by adding a
curves effect and really kind of like just dialing up the contrast so we can
see all this detail coming in here next up
we can grab a find edges and apply that down
and immediately we get this nice little detail going on here
if you're struggling and want some more then all you need to do is just adjust
your curves again that's nice on the side there and before
we move on i'm going to change the blend mode
to screen there you go invisibility great so this is a good start but we can
we can do a lot better so now that we've got this edge detail let's add that
distortion i'm going to create a new grade layer
and the first thing i want to add is a heat distortion
let's place this grade layer under my edges
so we can kind of get an idea for what we're going to go for i'm going to bring
this distortion all the way down maybe into
that yeah so kind of like bends and warps within me
i'm going to turn up the bias a little bit and
increase that strength this is all the case of trial and error we're just
trying to find the right balance for what looks good
and what's fitting for the visual effect and that you know that looks good but
when we play through we get the wavelines and the animation
so go into animation and let's turn off
that pesky wind that way there's still a little bit of
movement going on there but it's nothing serious
another really good solid effect for this is caustics this is the recreation
of that kind of like optical illusion that you
get from water usually i'm quite happy with
how the default looks i might make this a little bit deeper actually
looking at it it's got some depth you know if you're following along in
HitFilm Pro you can actually add some chromatic aberration to really kind of
dial in that optical illusion feel and finally for this grade layer we are
going to add a set matte place that underneath our
caustics set the source layer to luma the matte source to luminance so now
we've got that instant fix and everything's in place
now we can rename this grade layer to distortions i'm finding that those edges
are a little bit too sharp for my liking so i'm actually going to add a
blur and just dial that down to about one maybe two
just kind of like gives it a little bit bit more of a warp if you're finding
that you're getting really strong edges then
dial down the opacity to something a bit more fitting
one more thing that we can do to tie in the lighting and the distortion
is add in a new light if we set our edges to 3d and we can
start moving this light around in 3d space and our caustics layer will
actually be tied to this so now we can bring this in make those
edges a little bit brighter at the same time
it's looking pretty good so now that we have our invisibility complete we can go
ahead and just start compositing this into our
scene let's make another composite shot from
our plate and i'm just going to change the time to match our footage
and now what we could do is actually bring in our footages layer
there you go i'm just going to give this a rename to invis
as invisibility has too many i's and i would embarrass myself on the spelling
so now that we have our visual effect we need to composite this together
so it looks like the light is bending around our actor i'm going to first
start off with a matte cleaner
and all i'm going to do with this is feather the edges just ever so slightly
and maybe choke it what this is doing is removing
the edges that are silhouetting my actor really subtle but just cleans it up now
here's where we get wrapping i'm actually going to be using
three sets of light wrap so be sure to select your plate and i'm
just going to increase the radius and the opacity so you can see what it's
doing around my shoulders in particular and we're going to duplicate it and
let's add a little bit less and one more with a little bit less
yeah so now that i have them all in place i'm going to lower the opacity of
each one so it gets like progressively lighter as it
as they kind of fade in that looks pretty good so let's add
curves because curves are our friends and again all we're going to do is just
kind of like match the tones or you can either bring them down
if you want to if it's a bit too bright or just completely throw it into shadow
and last for effect is just another blur because i love me a
blur because nothing's ever in focus oh that
was too much okay one i'm actually going to move my
curves underneath my light wrap just to help
that blend a little bit better depending on how you lit your scene you
may want to go with a different blend type like lighten or add
but i'm going to stick with normal as this has already tied up
pretty nicely then it's just a case of lighting and grading your scene and you
get something like this a very whiny invisible man
if you're after an invisibility effect that's similar to what we did with
javert then here we go we shot javert on a blue
screen because of his green jumper mask out the pieces and key it out if
needed focusing around the collar and any area of clothing that may reveal
skin we ended up taking a photo of the
sweater without javera in it just so we had a reference of what was behind him
it's always good practice to get reference material and clean plates from
your shoot because you never know what you're going to need in post-production
fun little tip this was then motion tracked onto the
corners of the collar and then parented to that scene from
there he added some quad warp and bezier warp just to distort it and give it a
slight variation while it moved invisibility is a really fun effect to
pull off so have a go for yourself and send us your examples as well we would
love to see what you make that's it for today this tutorial was requested
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