hmmm interesting let's see if it has some true powers pretty good back to you Ben
Hey what's up ladies and gentleman I'm Ignace Aleya and i hope you enjoyed
that little intro as you might know if you follow me on instagram i made this
video in collaboration with ben from pressed you press tube is actually one
of the biggest channels here in Belgium and meeting Ben was really amazing and
he's a very humble guy it was a true honor thank you so much and hopefully we
can do this in the future sometime too so he does obviously some crazy stuff on
his channel otherwise he wouldn't get that audience and so definitely check
him out I'll put a link in the description below so you can go and
check out his channel so he made the hammer that you saw in the intro
completely by himself from aluminium his video on that actually went viral so I
wanted to add some effects to that hammer it would be a shame if that
hammer was never to be used in a VFX scene right so anyway we had lots of fun
creating this one new hammer was actually really really heavy I was truly
shocked pun intended okay so so let's get to the
point and see how it's done and by the way if you enjoy watching my videos
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tutorial files in the description below so the first thing that you want to do
is change your color space in Adobe After Effects to 32 bits per channel
this will allow us to achieve better colors and better glows
next I will drag in my footage into a new composition so we can get started
the first thing that I want to do is duplicate my footage on this new layer I
want to apply an effect color correction color amma this will be used to create a
luma mat so we can sky replace a shot with a stormy or sky to match the
lightning scene a little bit to the output cycle of Kalama and change
it to ramp gray --great two new points one black and one white and then play
with the position until your sky looks white and everything else black just try
to really pay attention to the trees and kind of make it a subtle gradient you
can still tweak these settings later on once you are done import an image or
video of a sky that you want to use and fortunately I can't share this guy but
I'm sure you can figure out this one by yourself drag in the sky below the luma
matte layer that we just created change the track mats to luma matte if you
still need to adjust the chlorella effect you can still do so so make sure
it is as perfect as possible then reposition the sky to your preference
next I'm going to apply a color correction tint effect and a curves
effect to the sky layer decreases tend to desaturate the sky a little bit and
play with the curves until it matches your scene better also play with the
opacity of the sky layer to blend it in a little bit better that's also a great
trick when you do sky replacement once you are done pre compose all these
layers and this is going to be our footage layer now let's take a short
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lightning effects let's add an exposure effect to the precomposed layer that we
just created going to set the value to 0.5 I made a
mistake of going for 1 but that's a little bit too high so choose 0.5 for
the exposure and then I'm going to all click on the stopwatch of the exposure
effect and write a simple expression to give it some flickering light right
wiggle open parenthesis 10 comma zero point 5 close parenthesis this is going
to change 10 times a second with a value of 0.5 randomly next I'm going to create
a new adjustment layer we are going to convert our footage to look a little bit
more like a night scene I'm going to apply an effect curves and tend again
change the temps do some kind of dark bluish cork and then lower the
percentage of the effect to blend in a little bit better and then you can play
with the curves effects to add a little bit more contrast in colors next I want
to duplicate my footage and bring it on top originally here I want to use a pen
tool to mask an area around my body that is kind of gonna be the most reflected
lightening on my body then I'm also going to add an ellipse mask to reflect
in the background adjust it a little bit to look a little bit more tree D and
then I'm going to feather these masks to my preferences change the blending mode
of this layer to additive or screen next I'm going to duplicate my footage once
again and bring it above this layer now we're going to add a tenth effect to
desaturate the entire footage and then I'm going to add a levels effect to add
more contrast what we essentially want to create is some kind of specular map
so that the reflections don't look even everywhere so everything that's white is
going to be visible and everything that's black isn't going to be visible
so try to think about it as a specular map then use the reflection layer and
change the track map to luma matte now only the white parts of the layer above
will be reflected and that creates this kind of effect cool you can always play
with the colors a little bit more using a curves adjustment but that's
completely up to you ok now for the exciting part let's create some
Lightning add a new black solid layer to the composition and add an advanced
lightening effect do that layer the first thing that I want to do here is
change a glow opacity to zero then I'm going to set the core
to around 6 and again I'll click on a stopwatch again I'm going to write that
same expression wiggle open parentheses 10 comma 5 this time and close the
parentheses and this is going to animate the width also randomly of the Lightning
then keyframe the lightning origin to the hammer of course you could also
track the hammer and then link the origin but let's keep it simple for now
as I don't move the hammer too much also change the lightning type to a strike
and animate it to something like this trim the layer to where you want the
Lightning to start and there we go next I want to also animate the Lightning
animation this we can do with the conductivity state of the Lightning
effect we are also going to write a simple expression in this case also I'll
click on the stopwatch for addy conductivity state here I'm going to
write the expression time times 2 so now it's going to have a constant animation
and therefore the Lightning is going to look animate it
Leslie you can play with all the other lighting settings but I found that the
basic ones actually work pretty well in this case after you have everything set
up you can change the core color to some kind of blue but don't saturate it too
much next I want to apply our perfect glow preset which gives you great glow
results you can download that for free on our website I will put a link in the
description below once you apply that you will see that
the glow looks off that's because you should check on composite on original
and the Lightning effect then change the blending mode of this layer to screen
and now play with the globe threshold radius and density to get satisfying
results after that you can also move the lightning direction if you want to give
it a little bit more life and then I will import my flare footage which is
going to be included in the tutorial files in the link in the description
below also set this layer to a screen and scale it and maybe apply a simple
curves effect to darken the darks a little bit more so you don't see any
edges on that flare then I'm going to press B on the keyboard for the position
of that layer and then I'll click on the stopwatch for T position I'm going to
link this to the original value of the lightening effect also trim this layer
where the Lightning starts next let's take a look on how to create the
lightning in the sky I'm going to duplicate my lightening effect so we
don't have to start over from scratch and put it on the top solo it for now so
we can concentrate on that layer and this
all the glue effects it'll change the lightening type to breaking play with
the forking and decay to get your desired results and animate the origin
and direction to get some variation in it I'm again going to use the wiggle
expression to both the origin and direction because I'm just too lazy to
animate them then I'm going into the course settings and also add a wiggle
expression to the opacity so that the lightning flickers on and off and isn't
constant now let's enable the globe effects again and adjust the settings as
there's a way more lightning than before the glow is going to be way too intense
so lower it a bit until you're satisfied you can still dive in the core Tecna in
the color to get different kind of results to really play around with that
and then you can insulate it layer pre compose it so we have that separate then
I'm going to jump into the composition of my footage where we keyed out the sky
I'm going to copy the luma matte that we created and paste it back in our main
composition put that above the latest lighting composition that we just
created and change the lightening layer to again luma matte so that the
lightening only appears in the sky adjust the timing of the lightening
layer to your preferences and again trim it to word lightening begins and voila
next let's finalize our clip with some minor details that will enhance our look
a lot add an adjustment layer on the top and create an ellipse mask tool by just
double clicking on that then subtract that mask and feather it a bit here we
are going to apply a curves adjustment and bring down the intensity this will
create some kind of vignette on the edges and make the edges darker once
you've done that we really want to emphasize the power of the lightening
when I put the hammer in the air and get the first lightning strike going to do
that we want to add a subtle camera shake effect and I'm going to be using
TC shake which is a preset from our epic transitions back if you don't have that
you will find a ton of tutorials on how to add shake to your footage online
again this you do on a new adjustment layer for the theses shake bring the
first keyframe right before the effect happens and then bring the center
keyframe to the position where the effect starts then the last keyframe
just makes it fade out change the settings to your preferences and boom we
have the shake to really how much power is in this shop and okay
we're done but for the serious people here we can now export this clip to
Premiere Pro and import it in a timeline here I want to add our camera shake
preset which is recorded from real organic camera movement to give this
shot a little bit more detail and depth this will make it look so much more
advanced and voila we're done if you want to add sound effects all I did was
I use the trailer-truck from epidemics sound and sound effects from their
website as well so everything that I got from sound is all from epidemics and and
if you click on link in the description below you can actually use epidemics
sound 30 days for free so if that's not a great deal I just don't know it
anymore so now you will be able to finish this project entirely with some
awesome sound and that's basically it for this video I hope you enjoyed it if
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