in today's video i will show you how to catch an airplane with a doctor strange
portal and make it fly through in the street the first thing that i've done is recorded myself
and in this case actually my fiance was recording me while we were on a little trip to paris
we've also visited disneyland which was a lot of fun we did the hollywood hotel though and
that was pretty scary i didn't know what to expect and off i went yeah it was crazy anyway back to
paris i recorded this shot right here and all i wanted to do with this is track it in adobe
after effects but before we start i want to say a special thank you to holly land they send over
this uh solid com c1 and the sonofcom c1 actually allows you to stay in touch with your team on set
so whether you're recording live events or a short film and you want to communicate with the camera
guy or dp it's really hard to always reach out to a walkie-talkie or to send messages to each other
so right here you have a headset that sits super comfortably on your head
makes you look a little bit like a pilot and it looks super dope they are rechargeable
with these batteries right here and if you're thinking about losing your buddy right there it
can actually reach up to 305 meters according to the specifications it's really helpful on set so
you don't always have to go to the person you want to talk to and yeah like i said you look
professional while doing so and people like that so yeah definitely go ahead with a link in the
description below if you want to find out more the solid com c1 from holy land first i tried to use
the 3d camera tracker because this is the easiest way to try it and approach it but to no surprise
it didn't end up working that well because there is too much going on so what i ended up doing is
opening mocha ae and just 2d trick uh a certain spot closer to the camera where i think the portal
might come once that the frame is losing that frame i'm going to shift over this tracking point
so i can continue tracking or adding tracking data to that same point that's the way mocha works okay
so once i tracked the entire shot i parented this to a null object so i have that tracking data now
i tracked a little point in the far distance so more to track the plane in the sky because they're
in different parallaxes from each other and that means that they will move differently the thing in
the background will move slower than the point in the foreground so that's why i created two
tracking points then i added in my portal and for the portal i actually opened up an older project
and i just matched my camera angle and rendered that angle out we actually sell this portal on our
website creatorgalaxy.com and it's a preset from a tutorial that i have created a while back so if
you want to see how to create your own doctor strange portal from zero or from scratch then
definitely go and check out that video so i have this portal in black and white and i just add it
to my scene i then parent it to the null that is closer to my camera and place my portal until i'm
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with the video for the color of my portal i want to have an like orange golden look so i went for
the vc color vibrance to add my color to my black and white portal because that gives me
like the most vibrant colors that i desire then i added a perfect glow which you can also find
on our website to really make everything come nicely together then i create another portal
that i'm going to parent to the null in the sky so i'm just doing the same thing if you would need
another angle just go back to your portal project and render out a different angle by moving your
3d camera around so now we have our portals in our scene we also need another background
for our portal in the foreground so what i have done here is created a solid where i masked out
the inside of the portal here i also parented this to this null so it stays in the same place
and then i went to pexels.com to find myself a sky photo or video if you so desire to make it even
more complex i'm going to use this image below the solid that i tracked down and i'm going to also
add this as an alpha matte to the solid so that way i'm just seeing what the solid is representing
you can either parent this to the null or try not to because you really want to have some
parallax with the sky and the foreground but that's something that you'll have to play with
so now we need our plane that is actually in our sky either you recorded a real plane that
is flying in the sky or in my case i didn't have anything flying there so i needed a plane photo
i was lucky because the sky is blue and i just had to use the key light to remove the background from
my plane image so now i'm left with a transparent plane i'm going to animate that plane pretty
slowly and here's the thing that you might want to think about so when you're looking at something
really far and it's going really really fast you're going to see it appear pretty slow but once
it would pass through that portal and appear in front of the camera it should go a lot faster than
you would see it in the distance so that's why you will see in my example the plane in the um sky is
going pretty slow and once it passes through the portal it really slams through there so anyway i
animated this png plane to move into the portal that i have in the sky after that it entered the
portal i'm going to cut it away or just mask it out and now i need a plane that actually exits
the portal in the foreground and here i've put quite a bit of work in there i actually used a
plane model and i completely remodeled it re-topologized it and also uv textured it
completely with the cg creator galaxy tag which looks super cool we have our own private jet now
yep what do you think of it anyway i cut off the wings because i was imagining once you fly through
the portal the portal is strong enough to kind of like like a lightsaber would do cut off the wings
of the plane so you would only stay with like the um cabin of the plane that would fly through
so i exported this in cinema 4d and i imported this using element 3d i already had my uv
textures saved out so i just re-imported them in element 3d and adjusted my textures a little bit
to match my environment you can also add an environment in element 3d
that more or less represents the location you're at or you can actually import a 360 hdri jpeg i
think in element 3d of your existing location but i didn't have my 360 camera with me so
that didn't end up working for this one so i ended up using another image that kind of represented
that shot then i used a bunch of elements to make my shot stand out to have some sparks some
ground bursts and also i masked a solid with some roughen edges applied to it to make it look like
the ground was cracked open so after playing around with a lot of dust sparks ground bursts
and whatnot i ended up creating something like this enjoy alright so check this out
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all right so that's how i catched an airplane using dr strange magic
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