hey what's up my name is inyas aleya and in this video i'm going to show you how to create a sci-fi
eye effect in adobe after effects let's get started for this video i'm going to
be using the acer concept d7 pro easel why easel you ask let me demonstrate
honestly this is one of my favorite features for this laptop one it's an industry standard laptop
with some really amazing specs for running vfx on your laptop on the go it's really capable
because it comes with a xeon processor and a quadro rtx 5000 graphics card from nvidia
which is insane to be inside of a laptop and it also looks really dope and yeah it's different and
i like different so if you want to follow along with the exact same footage as me i will put a
link in the description where you can download that i will work with this clip right here
so i'm looking straight into the camera i'm going to drag and drop this footage into a
new composition the first thing that i want to do is add the mocha ae effect to my clip so i'm
going to my effects and presets search mocha ae add that to your clip and click on the logo
for moka but before you do that make sure that you're working here in full resolution and now
we can click and open up mocha all right so right here i'm going to choose my x-plane tool and then
hold z on the keyboard and zoom in on my eye with the x you can pan around so hold x and drag around
and i want to select the inner eye so everything that is within my eye and then right click once
you're done hold ctrl and press a to select all of these dots and then just pull them in
a little bit to make them softer and now we can click here and track forward so once in
a while you can pause your track and just adjust your track to be perfect to do that i'm going to
zoom in as big as possible here and we're going to just drag this in here and make it as perfect as
you can obviously the more time you're going to spend here the better your result will be
so do this as perfect as you can this is going to be my left eye so i'm going to double click
on this layer and then rename it to left eye and if you want to repeat the process for the
other eye you can just redo the entire process select your explain tool and then move over
to the other eye and start over from the first frame or wherever you want and work from there
but i'm just going to concentrate on one eye for this tutorial so now we're going to close mocha
and save all the changes and now we're going to right click and create a new null object this
is going to be my tracking data so i'm going to hit return and rename this tracking data
and then go to my footage and go into the tracking data create track data and then select that layer
click okay and then right here we're going to click transform and select the tracking data null
and apply the export if you have the other track i you would have to select the other layer here
click ok and then redo this process for another note so we now have this null following my eye
so now i want to concentrate on the eye design so i'm going to create a new composition
and i'm going to make this um 1000 by 1000 so everyone can work with me here
i design and hit return and in here i'm going to enable my title action safe then i'm going to
choose my ellipse tool and zoom in start from the center hold ctrl and shift and drag out
until we have something like this and then i'm going to click here on fill
i'm going to give it no fill click okay and then for the stroke i'm going to give it a white stroke
and i'm going to increase this stroke line by the way if you want to make these designs in
illustrator or photoshop you can do that as well that's no problem you can design them
either in after effects or take more time in illustrator i'm just going to show you a few
techniques on how to design your own elements in adobe after effects so now that we have this
we can duplicate this shape layer we can scale it down a little bit just like this
and one thing that i'm going to do here is go over to layer and pre-compose this
so i make this in like a pixel-based circle and i'm just going to call this circle comp
and in here i'm going to choose my pen tool and i'm going to start from the center
work my way outside like this and then come back a little bit like that and then work my way back
to the center and now i have this kind of piece that is coming or sticking out so you can do this
uh if you want to make this smaller you can just drag this in or out so
like this you would be able to control little pieces on the side you can also
double click on this mask and then hold ctrl and duplicate it and then you can rotate it to
the other side for example like this or you could just duplicate this footage and delete the masks
and just start over here for a small one and like this you get these different elements i'm also
going to create another ellipse so what you can do is just duplicate this shape layer ctrl d and
in here i'm going to open up all the details so i'm going to open up the contents for the ellipse
and right here we will also see transform settings where we also have the scale so i'm going to scale
it down a little bit like this and then i'm going to work my way down here for the stroke
go and open up the stroke and choose right here to have dashes so add the dashes click here
on the plus and now we get this design right here which looks really cool and detailed so
you can play here with the dashes and the offset to change the look of this uh however you'd like
i'm again going to duplicate the same layer and this time i'm going to
lower the pixels for the stroke i'm going to open it again and go into the contents ellipse and this
time well also for the skill here just going to scale it down a little bit so we get some extra
detail and all you want to do is detail this thing out so with the techniques that i've shown you
there we go this looks pretty cool and in here you can also add like an effect on top of your
shape layers so what you can do is go over to effect and go into blur and sharpen and
add a fast box blur here and if we're going to increase that we're just going to blur
these elements a little bit and these are going to make it look a little bit more realistic so i'm
going to copy this fast box blur another technique that you could use for example would be i'm just
going to apply that to another one let's say this layer right here i'm going to apply the effect
blur and sharpen and here i'm going to add the channel blur and increase that that's just going
to soften the edges a little bit and that's going to give it a little bit of a hot spot
feeling like if you look into a light or a soft box that is standing here right in front
of me you will see that the center point is very white but the edges are darker because the light
gets yeah it has a fall off so if you want to create that fake falloff you can do that using
the alpha blurriness and i would also combine this with a very subtle fast box blur so i'm
going to add the fast box blur on top of that set the iterations to 1 and set the radius to 1.
now we have a soft blur on the edges i'm going to copy these two blurs and what you could do
is actually cut them so i'm going to edit and cut them away and i'm just going to apply them
on an adjustment layer so they're applied to every single layer here i'm just going to
close everything down and then right click here new adjustment layer and paste with ctrl v the
effects that we've just cut and now we have this element right here and maybe you don't want it on
one particular element you can bring that out of on top so like this you can also create depth by
changing your blurry values i'm going to also make the outer circle a little bit thinner because
i think it's a little bit too dark a little bit too thick this looks really really cool
now we have a few techniques on how we want to add some animation to these elements we already have
the look down but we don't have any animation we want them to rotate around a little bit or
rotate continuously so to do these things we're going to be using some basic expressions in adobe
after effects which are really really easy and simple to grasp so if it's your first
time with expressions these are like the perfect expressions to get into expressions so um we're
going to press r on the keyboard to bring up the rotation here and i'm going to hold
alt and click on the stopwatch here and write a simple expression like wiggle open parenthesis
point five comma and then i'm going to set it to like 360. so what this does is over the time of
two seconds because the first value stands per second so if you would add one that would mean
every single second but 0.5 means every two seconds is going to randomly change with a
value of 360 in the rotation so if you're going to play this you're not going to see anything because
i added it to the wrong effect so what i can do to just make this visible is open up the contents
go into the stroke and also add these dashes here and now we're going to see
that if we're going to play this we get some random rotation here that is pretty slow
because we do it every two seconds if you want to speed it up you just want to increase the first
value in your wiggle preset so i'm just going to um press e twice on the keyboard if you press that
quickly you're going to bring up all the effects that have expressions applied to them i'm going
to hold ctrl and press c on the keyboard to copy this wiggle expression and then select all of my
layers press r on the keyboard and now i can go over all of these so alt click and paste it maybe
above that one i'll click and you can not paste it but maybe you want to write something differently
so this time we're going to do something continuously now it's like rotating a little bit
randomly with a wiggle preset but if you want to have like a continuous rotation you can use
the time presets so we're going to write time here we need to add the asterisks and then write
the amount so maybe 100 so every second it's going to add 100 to the rotation so if we're going to
look at this it's now going to have a continuous rotation to the right just like that if you want
to reverse the rotation we can add a minus here to reverse the animation counterclockwise
and so like that we can work with the time expression and now i'm just going to add the
wiggle to the other two just so we can wrap this effect up so now all of the gears are rotating
and it looks really cool it looks really advanced and yeah you can still work on this more and add
even more detail if you'd like but now once you're satisfied with your design you can go back to your
main composition and just add that circle comp to your composition i'm going to scale it down here
and place it onto my eye and i actually brought in the wrong comp if you ever do that you can just
click on this comp select the right comp here and hold alt and then drag it over and boom it's going
to replace that and so now we are going to see that we have our effect on top of our eye we can
just now parent this to the null track data and we can also set our screen resolution to full which
it is it's just zoomed in quite a lot and now we want to add for example a tint effect to this
to color it a little bit so we're going to apply the tint effect
to our eye design change the white color here to a nice maybe purple this time maybe we want like
more of a red tone click okay uh if you want it to be brighter you can go more towards the white
and always important to add perfect glow on top of all of your effects to make them look
ah really really cool and then set the blending mode to screen and press t on the keyboard to
lower the opacity a little bit to just blend the effect a little bit better with the eye itself
and i'm just going to change the color to maybe more of a golden look
like that and now that we have parented it to the track data we should see that it's working fine
we just have one more thing to do and that's to make sure that once my like my eyelid is coming
over it that it's masking that out and because we've done the mocha track we can now go into
the matte and create ae mattes or masks and press m on the keyboard and then just cut away
this left eye mask so ctrl x right click new solid i mask click okay and then paste the
mask but before you do that make sure you go all the way to the beginning and paste it here
and then bring this on top of your eye design and set your eye design track matte to alpha
matte if you don't see that you can toggle the switches right here or press f4 then i'm going
to press f on the keyboard so i can feather this mask a little bit and set it to something like
four so now we have a soft feather and we should have our final look so in the mask you can see
some small mistakes here because i really rushed through the masking process but apart from that
the eye looks super dope and that's basically it on how to create sci-fi eyes you can always create
another adjustment layer to add some reflections here or something like that and you can also
add for example these metal cyborg effects on top of the eyes here and if you want a
better glow what you can always do is add the solid composite effect right here before your
glow that's going to make it pop a lot more and you can always increase the intensity a
little bit but as you can see this really makes it pop and on this monitor it looks fantastic
and 4k and it's also pantone certified which means that you're working with industry standard cores
so now all there is to do is add some color grading and that gives you something like this
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