hey what's up in today's video I'm going to take you back to my childhood
memories and we are going to recreate Diamond Head from Ben 10. here goes
so what can this guy do I don't know but I bet it's gonna be cool so in today's video
I will take you through my process on how I created the entire video here is what we
will need in order to accomplish this shot obviously we need to record ourselves and
then we need to find a 3D model of Diamond Head optimize it to look realistic and then we need
to animate it and then we need to composite the entire thing together to make it look awesome
alright so without further Ado let's get into it so for this video we went into the forest and
enzoi recorded me using the Panasonic s1h camera handheld so it actually has a lot of motion in
there because that's what you want when you're going to be tracking your shot I also placed my
insta360 one x2 in the scene so I could capture 360 images at multiple exposure levels which I
can then combine later on in Photoshop into an Agri image this is going to be my lighting from
my environment so I can get realistic looking visual effects in my 3D software after that I
brought everything in Adobe After Effects and I have my first shot here where I'm actually
acting that the watch is opening up and actually to achieve the effect of the watch coming out you
might think it's 3D but I actually cheated it because we only see it in the front angle so
I just drew a simple shape around my watch I tracked the 2D location of the watch using my
tracking Tools in Adobe After Effects and then on the shape I just added a gradient to make it look
like it's some sort of metal but it also has some kind of depth to it and then just parented it to
my watch and I just made it come out and using a mask where it's actually coming out from so it's
as simple as that and I also used a green solid on top of that which is going to be my display of the
watch and I added a perfect load to that to make it look shiny so yeah it's a little cheat on the
watch but that's because I wanted to concentrate more on the Diamond Head part and anyway I think
it did a job well so then I slam into my watch I cut my video right there and I go to a spot
where enzoy is recording the environment with having in mind the Diamond Head is going to be
standing there so also keeping an mind that he will be taller than me so we have a wider angle
so for this next part I'm just going to 3D camera track it and then I'm going to set a ground plane
and then I'm going to export this tracking data to Cinema 4D now comes a time that we need to
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meantime alright so without further Ado let's get back to the video now it's time for us to
find find a 3D model online I found this really cool Diamond Head model online and it's free and I
think it's gonna do the job just fine I'm going to import that in Cinema 4D but I am going to
modify this quite a bit I want to First optimize my entire model and I'm also going to re-texture
it completely so for some parts I will need to do some UV mapping because I want to be able to paint
on his body to get a more original look of his clothing then I'm going to apply all my textures
I actually used redshift render engine in order to do my final render here while I'm texturing it's
also really important to have an hdri environment so the photos that I took for the Agri I'm going
to convert them in Photoshop and then import them as an Agri environment for my 3D scene
that way my lighting is going to be as close as possible as on location and I also get really nice
Reflections which is going to help me a lot while I'm texturing this Diamond Head once I'm done I
need to start animating it and I wanted to give it a really cool animation either we can use a motion
capture suit which we actually have lying around and we used it in other videos but I thought why
not try a different route where everybody can join in who doesn't have a suit so if you are
looking for 3D animations mixamo.com you might already have heard of it is a really popular
place to find your animations so all you have to do here is upload your 3D model then it's going to
automatically rig it for you and then you can just search one of your animations in their Library
and then apply that to your model it's going to come out quite alright as you can see so we have
a pretty cool result now you can download your model and import it back in Cinema 4D all I'm
going to do here is optimize my animation just a little bit more because you can see these spikes
on the back that's for example something that you don't always have with characters and it doesn't
stick or it's a little bit loose so all I have to do is re-weight my character a little bit so
I'm going to optimize this animation also and then I'm going to place it in my scene then I'm going
to export all the separate passes and I'm going to composite everything in After Effects so in After
Effects I just imported my original background and then imported all these different passes so
I have full custom control over how I want it to look in the end and so now we have a Diamond Head
in our scene dancing around how cool is that I didn't know Diamond Head had great moves like that
foreign so once we're done here I have the first part where I'm opening the watch and I
slam it so here I want a Big Bright um glowing green color to appear so kind of a flare and
for the flare I'm actually going to be using optical flares which is a plug-in from video
call Pilot but it's really powerful for creating flares of course feel free to do this in any way
you would like but I'm going to have it appear when I slam the watch and then make it so big
and bright that you can't see the entire screen and then I'm going to slowly scale it back down
so it disappears in the actual logo of Ben 10 as Diamond Head so that way I have the entire
transformation in a pretty easy way and that's about it now I can transform in Ben 10 enjoy
thank you
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