in today's video i'm going to transform into venom in this world this carnage
and also if you want to win an electric skateboard that goes
super fast and takes long distance keep watching
i'm going to transform myself into venom and this is basically inspired from the latest trailer
for the second venom movie we can see this awesome transformation and it's totally got
me intrigued on how to achieve it so in today's video we'll see how i've done that we will need
a 3d character from venom that is animated we will need to record ourselves against
the green screen or on the location we want the thing to actually happen at
and then we need a bunch of effects to turn ourselves into venom so we'll see how to do all
of that in this video so the first thing i've done is looked online for reference on venom
so i found this model from venom but unfortunately the way it was exported or modeled uh didn't allow
me for a very efficient workflow so i basically had to completely redo it in order to achieve a
good result so here are the things you would need to do if you wanted to animate a 3d character when
you have your model you also need to rig it in order to animate it so it's basically putting
a skeleton inside the body of your model so you can animate it later on but that's not enough you
will also need to weight your model so actually telling the bones where to bend at and where not
and if this all is not complicated enough you will also need to animate everything yourself by hand
or using a motion capture suit and trust me hand animation can take a lot of time and especially a
lot of skill is required because you need to nail the exact timings of real animation so
really study how something moves i'm going to be honest in this video i did a really quick
animation job i didn't really think it true but i still think the result looks totally awesome
and that's just for the animation now you also need the texture and for a texture you basically
need to unstitch your entire 3d model in order to paint on top of it so it doesn't automatically
recognize where you want to apply things 2021 but still it cannot figure out how to do that
so we need to do uv unwrapping and that's also a big hassle so doing all of these things combined
can really require some work but once you get a hang of it you can do so many fun things so that
was basically the experiment on my part to just do everything from a to z on how to make a character
on how to rig it how to weight it and how to texture it so that was a really awesome experience
so now that i have my venom 3d character it's time to move into the green screen room
i know it's a little bit messy around here so i gotta clean it up and set up everything to
record myself against a green screen i'm going to light the green screen evenly with two tube
lights from came tv and i have a one key light right here that is facing 45 degrees angle to me
i know the lighting isn't going to be super solid and that's just because i have a little bit of a
lack of space i would also need a rim light behind me to make it a lot more interesting
but that's going to be for our next one i'm also going to be recording here with the panasonic s1h
and i've set this up with the small rake cage which is really awesome and
makes it a lot more comfortable to use as a cinema camera and i'm also using the atomos
ninja 5 which is connected to the s1h and this allows you to capture a lot more data
in prores raw which is just insane and that's going to help me a ton with keying
so i will have a lot of colored data and also in general when you're recording the panasonic s1h
is a very worthy cinema camera so i have a lot more dynamic range and a lot more
color to play with i definitely want to dive in that more so yeah let's record
alright so now that we have our footage we can start anticipating on what kind of animation we
want to add to our 3d venom models so the first thing that i've done is making sure that venom
looks in a kind of same spot that i am when i'm recording on the green screen so i also lower the
position of venom because venom is i think around 2 meter and 70 centimeters not sure how much that
is in feet but that's a whole lot taller than me so i bended him down so he is around my size and
then i also animated him to grow and move up and actually overpower the scene so i animated my 3d
venom then i optimized my scene to render it with octane render engine i exported everything into
adobe after effects and now i'm left with my original footage and my venom animation
so meepo sent over this v4 for me to enjoy riding these electric longboards it feels
like i'm surfing on the street it's just such a free feeling the only thing that you have to be
cautious with is that you're very safe while doing so because if you're not present at the
moment it can be dangerous so if you end up winning this one make sure that you wear a
helmet so you can continue watching my videos alright so what do you actually have to do in
order to win so the first thing that you will need to do is just download my venom animation
with the link in the description below and what i want you to do with that is completely up to you
i want you to either create a video or a photo where you're using my venom 3d model and you
don't even have to be good the most important thing is that it's creative and it has a proof
of concept so whatever our team thinks has the best proof of concept will actually win the board
so it's a really fun experiment your chances of winning are super high so i would definitely try
it out so download venom with the link in the description and then the second thing you would
have to do is follow me on instagram and post your results there make sure that you tag me in
your results it can either be a story or a post or a reel it's completely up to you be creative with
it just use the venom and actually follow me on instagram and tag me so it's completely up to you
be creative with it and let the best win i'm really looking forward to making someone happy
with the meepo v4 so then you can feel exactly what i'm feeling when i go on a ride after a
long day of work alright so back to the video i have myself here on the green screen so i will
keep myself out and now i'm going to try the moment when i want the transformation to start
i will make a marker here and then around a second later i'm going to make another marker i want my
transformation to last around maximum one second and basically what i have used to create all
of this is using the puppet warp tool and the liquify tool these two tools are super powerful
when you want to do morphing in adobe after effects this will make keyframes for that mesh
on that position and then i just try to match either myself and venom for that entire second
so the transformation would actually look genuine and actually look like he is transforming for
myself after that i want the venom body to grow on myself so i'm going to use my own footage as an
alpha matte and i'm going to create a fractal noise layer which i'm going to animate from black
to white which means that everything that is black will be invisible everything that is white will
become visible and fractal noise gives you that organic look after that i use the liquify tool
to make it look like the teeth are actually warping my skin around and displacing it
in that position so when something is actually peeking through your skin the other skin around it
is going to move away so that's what i'm trying to replicate here with the liquify tool then i also
use the duplicate of this layer also with the liquify tool to get these streaks here and for
these streaks there is actually a great tutorial that you can follow on video copilot which was
about harry potter but it's basically that effect that i applied here to get that smear look to have
the transformation effect from venom so you can use this effect in a ton of creative ways so now
i have something like this and this already looks super dope but it doesn't look quite real just yet
so i'm going to pre-compose everything together and apply rsmb on that that's a plugin that fakes
the motion blur but it makes everything blend a lot smoother in the animation after that i wanted
to bring a little bit more life to my venom and add some details that would normally be very hard
to achieve in 3d so again from video co-pilot you can download this slime pack that they make
available for free and it's really awesome to use in a scene for example like this when venom opens
his mouth i want the slime to actually drip from his teeth and that just looks disgusting
and juicy and that looks exactly like venom so what i have done is i added the slime to my scene
and i also used the puppet warp tool in order to make it follow the teeth and actually stretch
along with the mouth that's a really creative way to use the puppet warp tool so you can use
this again in a bunch of creative ways all i want to achieve with this video is for you to realize
what you can do with these tools research them on your own and maybe you can come up with some
really creative stuff i would love to see what you can create also you can thank me for that on
instagram i always pre-compose once my puppet warp tool is done just so i bake the footage in itself
and then i mask out the part around his mouth so it looks like it's just happening in the mouth
so now i have the final result of venom just without a background we will need a background
after that you have to crepitize your footage a really important step when it comes to vfx
that's applying everything that a camera usually has to your 3d model such as noise displacements
chromatic aberrations stuff like that just to make everything blend in together
so i made everything blend together and now i have my final result
but before i show that we also have to apply some sound effects which is also really important for
all the juiciness that venom has so you will need a good audio installation to hear those sounds
crystal clear and i just wanted to thank adam audio one more time because they actually sent
over the adam audio monitors a whole while back but i've been enjoying them for so long now
and it really changes the game when it comes to sound effects i really hear all the sound layering
and music and it's a whole different experience listening to music so i did my sound effects for
venom and also a good technique to apply once in a while is to listen on different audio devices
try it with a headset and see how that works because your audience is going to have different
experiences and for some things it's really important to hear different details and for that
i'm actually using the medsay audio headset here which is really sleek from design i really enjoy
it and it also has really clear audio and it's it's super comfortable on my ears it's over ears
and they just feel super snug and they're maybe the most comfortable headsets
that i have worn for a longer period of time anyway now that we have super
awesome sun effects it's time to watch our final result here it is
i don't feel so good
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and i will leave you with another video of mine because they're pretty cool and maybe
you want to check out another one i'll see you in the next one until then create epic videos