hey what's up ladies and gentlemen I'm Ignace Aleya and i hope you enjoyed
that little intro in today's video tutorial i'll be showing you how to
create a realistic-looking hover effect in Adobe After Effects just like in the
example that first let me break down what I've actually done before I started
recording so I actually recorded the last shot first because there I needed
my wheels on the skateboard I just drove through my Street and recorded myself
that way and I make sure that I also had a clean plate of that Street then next I
took off for the wheels of the skateboard but in this case it was
actually really really hard because it's actually a really old skateboard and the
screws were completely rusted so taking them off was really hard and of course
like in every story the first seven screws were super easy to take off and
that last one screw I think I spent an hour trying to get it off it completely
broke and I couldn't get it off but finally I did so yeah what an intense
moment that was anyway so then I ended up using some practical effects in order
to do that hover effect on the floor because that's really hard to do with
visual effects so I went for a simpler option which is actually using fishing
wire I took some fishing wire put that
through the holes then I dropped the skateboard trying to balance it and
looking like a hover board I tried that a few times because it wasn't easy to do
so just try it to balance it right and to make it look realistic like a real
hover board and then with some simple wire removal techniques I removed that
wire so that's not what we're going to be seeing in today's video as it's
actually more practical effects than visual effects in today's video I will
be showing you how to hover through your Street like in the last shot so like in
every video if you want to follow along using the exact same footage as me I
will provide a link in the description below where you can download the exact
same footage so you can follow along with this tutorial if you enjoy watching
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into Adobe After Effects and get started alright - here we are in Adobe After
Effects the first thing that I'll do is import my footage into a new sequence
there we go so as you can see I'm driving the skateboard through the
street right here it's actually quite a tricky shot
because of the shadow and we're gonna have to correct the shadow right here
because you see the wheels in the shadow which we'll have to cut out so if you
have the option to film yourself during a cloudy day that's usually gonna get an
easier result to achieve so in this case I took it a little bit harder to see
what I could come up with and yeah let's go like on the original footage and go
to the end until we see a clean plate of our shop then we want to duplicate this
by going to edit duplicate and then right-click time and freeze the frame
now we have a frozen frame which is going to act as a clean plate to key out
the wheels of the skateboard the first thing that I've done is right-click and
create a new solid layer and this is going to meet my alpha mat I wanted to
disable this solid layer and then I want to go to the pen tool and zoom in here
to my skateboard I wanna drag a kind of mask just so the top of the skateboard
is still visible and just mask around the wheels like that
and then before we make a keyframe what we want to do is go here to the mask
feather tool and this is actually a really cool tool to kind of dial in the
feather around this mask so right here we want a little bit of feather because
we're just underneath the skateboard but right here we do want a little bit more
feather so it actually transitions better with the clean plate so I'm going
to click over here and drag it down just a little bit click over here also drag
it down just a little bit but then once you're here
you can really bring this in and kind of get it looking like that and there we go
so now we have a nice transition from a kind of harder fatter into a softer
fatter right here so I'm going to bring this on even more if I can and there we
go now click on the stopwatch to create a
keyframe and then move back and move his entire mask just underneath the
skateboard we're going to do this manually because it tracking doesn't
work very well in this case but it's also pretty easy to do manually so
that's not a big problem and then just move it maybe even make it a little bit
smaller to fit the actual skateboard here like that and then just check in
between these keyframes if everything looks alright because the skateboard is
moving a little bit but that seems about right
and then once you're done just enable this layer again so you can actually see
what's going on here and then enable the frozen frame as well and then just click
here alpha mat and that's going to look at that mask and make a mask out of that
I'm going to make this yellow so we can actually see this is the roto of the
clean plate and there we see how it's looking here so the shadows are a little
bit fatter dot and that looks all right so the next thing that we want to do is
add some shadow below the skateboard because we want to kind of give that
impression of depth and of height so I'm going to right click new and I'm going
to make a new solid layer shadow and then just click with the pivot tool in
one of the shadow areas here and click OK then disable this for now and then go
into the with the pen tool and draw a kind of shadow mask around the bottom of
the skateboard on the floor something like this maybe move it a little bit to
get the perspective going right and then enable this layer press F on the
keyboard kind of fetor it a little bit like so but maybe you can also open up
the mask options and decrease the expansion so it's kind of settle and you
have something like that so this looks pretty cool I'm going to make a keyframe
for the mask path and then go to the beginning of the shop and move this mask
/ - with the skateboard and also make it smaller because we're actually further
in space move it over a little bit let me move and check and get it back in
position each time and then all the way at the end of the shot we want to move
it all the way till the end but also make it quite a little bit bigger there
we go and that shadow is already gonna do
quite a lot so if we're going to check now at the preview we do see that shadow
below our skateboard and that just looks a lot better in my opinion you can also
increase the feather a little bit more so it's kind of softer but it's looking
pretty good do you think it's a little bit too
strong you can also press T on the keyboard and lower the opacity here to
something like 50 and get it very subtle and then lastly what we want to do is
recreate that shadow here in the background because the original shadow
is actually with the tires and we want to keep these out so we want to recreate
the shadow so in order to do that I'm going to do some basic rotoscoping but
instead of rotoscoping a person I'm going to be a rotoscoping the shadow so
what I'll do is right-click new and I'm going to make a new solid layer rename
this for our shadows and uncheck this for now and now I'm going to the pen
tool and kind of make a simple mask around the shadow here there we go and
then press M on the keyboard and click on the stopwatch again to make a
keyframe move back and move this mask right here so this is actually just to
cover the small space where the sun is shining here right here we don't see any
shadows so there we don't have to keyframe anything we just want to get
this out of the shop and then move in and readjust it and kind of keyframe it
into position so readjust were needed let's go that's looking pretty cool I
think we're there so once you're dumb now we want to
enable this layer again so we can actually see it an in solo the original
footage so we have our shadow here in the background it's a little bit too
hard so what I'll do is press M twice on the keyboard or open up the mask
settings here and fetter it like five pixels but also remove some mask
expansion like - - that maybe five is a little bit too much like three if I
uncheck and enable it kind of matches the original shadow quite good we can
also click on the layer and go to layer solid settings and use the pivot tool
again to really get that exact color here and then click OK let me have some
shadows here which is looking pretty cool and then
right here just before it ends I'm going to press T on the keyboard and click on
the stopwatch for the opacity move forward a little bit until we're out of
the shot and then just zero out the opacity so it kind of fades out here
because we don't have any shadow here and then right here at the beginning I'm
going to do the same thing right here I want it at 100% click for a new keyframe
move back and zero on the opacity and then we have something like that and
then lastly what I've done in Premiere Pro is use one of our presets this DC
camera shake preset which you know I like to use a lot and at the end here
what I've done is just applied a medium medium shot version one here and as you
can see it's adding some shake to the camera and making the scene a little bit
more organic so you can also see it in the other shots
I added some camera shakes to these shots so I don't have to track anything
later on in time but I'm recording actually from a tripod so yeah that's it
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