in this video I'm going to show you how to take a blank wall
create a street art animation and place it over the top
first I'm going to show you how to make this animation here using some really
useful techniques and then we're going to composite it on top of our photo I
did this in collaboration with the amazing photographer Demas Rusli and
he shares some awesome tips and breakdowns of his just crazy photo edits
on his youtube channel and he also hosts the awesome podcast 529 as well
that I highly recommend if you want to hear about the different journeys of
fellow creatives and how they've managed to get a foothold in their industry now
in a new comp I'm gonna start on that bursting angular shape by creating a new
solid with ctrl y and we don't need to worry about the color and let's just
rename it starburst because we always label our layers and
then let's go and add the effect radio waves now this is a really awesome
effect to quickly get a shape radiating out from the center but we don't want a
circle we want our own spiky star shape so with that pen tool selected let's
draw a mask over this layer creating a starburst shape
and then we want to change the wave type over here to mask
and then the mask to mask 1
and now we can see we've got our mask radiating this shape
let's just move this mask up slightly so it's more near that Center
and the burst is coming from the middle
there we are
now let's go over after our producer point and then drag the y-axis down
so it is coming from the bottom and we don't really need to see the bottom half at all
and because we want this scene to start with our star already filling the wall
we're gonna click and drag this over to the left
and then extend it a little bit just keep dragging it over so as soon as this
comp starts we've already got a lot of shapes here and you can see it's
starting to fade out at the end here as well so let's change the fade-out time
from five down to zero and change the light span up to something really large
so that they don't ever fade out now we've got our radiating shape we can
adjust the frequency settings to change the space in between them I'll add mine a
little more spread out something around here is fine now let's change the stroke
color to black done now for those swirly circle shapes let's select our ellipse
tool up here make sure it's stroke is set to black
and five pixels which is the same as our radiating mask here let's hold shift and
just draw a circle in the middle of on and now we've gotta keyframe it's position
by pressing p on our keyboard clicking the stopwatch and a little while in move it
down to the left then up and then back down to the right and we want to create
a nice sort of figure 8 shape so I'm gonna select my pen tool, convert vertex tool
and then just sort of round these out so it makes an eight and we're just gonna
copy that keyframe from the start paste it at the end and now I've got
our circle moving in an 8 now to get this to loop we're gonna hold alt or
option on my keyboard click on the stopwatch to open up our expression
window we're going to add the expression loop out and then cycle in the brackets
now we will continue to cycle through these key frames until composition ends
let's add some easing to those key frames by selecting them and pressing f9
let's see how that looks
all right it's a little bit staggered
so what we're gonna do is go into the graph editor this is our value graph so I'm gonna
select all of these key frames and then I'm just going to drag them up from the
baseline so that their speed is never 0 so they will never sort of stop moving
let's increase the easing a little bit on these as well as long as there's some
interesting variance between how fast and slow it is we're gonna get a good
effect now let's go and add the effect echo now what this does is create a
delayed copy of this layer let's increase the number of echoes to 10
now we can see more accurately what that looks like and this is a really handy
effect for creating motion trails or smears in your animation so let's change
the echo operator to composite in front and now we have the effect we want
to get the front circle to be a different color we just duplicate this layer
remove the echo effect from that layer and just go and select the fill and
change it to whatever color you want and now we have our worm shape now to get
another version of this worm I am gonna slick both these layers duplicate them
with ctrl + D and then I'm just gonna get those layers and drag them until
they are pretty offset with that first worm and when we play it they won't
really meet there we are and then let's change the fill colors on both of those
layers as well so they are inverted I'm going to select this top two layers
and new worm and precomp by pressing ctrl shift C and call that
to worm 01and pre-comp our other worm as well and from there I'm just gonna sleep
both of those comps duplicate them and then drag them and move them around our canvas
maybe offsetting their time slightly and
rotating them and let's duplicate them all again drag them over rotate and
then add some more offset and now we've got a comp fill up with worm shapes and
we can go back and change the position of these later if we need to now let's
also create a new adjustment layer to put a few effects on and let's add the
effect posterized time and set that to 12 because a lower frame rate like
this is gonna look a little more natural on the wall so the animation doesn't
look so super smooth and digital 12 frames a second you work fine for this
you could go a bit lower a bit higher we're also gonna add a turbulent
displace effect I'm gonna set the amount a bit lower to 30 and then the size
really low to 2 pixels now what this is gonna do if we zoom really close in and
flick it on and off it just create a bit of grit and bumps to these lines so it
kind of looks like the texture of the wall will have affected how these lines
were painted on and now we're ready to composite this onto our wall so in a new
comp we have both our wall image and a street comp ready to go
so first let's select our art layer here and change the blending mode to multiply
which keeps only the dark value so we can see all the texture and everything
underneath and then move it around to line up the base of our star with this
chaps legs now our wall is facing our camera pretty much straight on but if
your wall has a bit of perspective like this wall for example
all we need to do is that the effect power pin
and then drag your corners to line it up with the edges of the wall
and there you go and now let's remove our street art from
these windows and holes in this wall and the floor as well and to do that we're
gonna use a matte so let's create a new solid with ctrl + y and let's make it
reasonably bright so we can see it and turn down its opacity so we can see our
wall through it and let's hide our art layer as well because that's only gonna
distract us at this point using a pen tool up here on the left I'm gonna click
and just draw a rectangle over the ground and then I'm gonna press m and I
keyboard to bring up our masks and set that to subtract then try to line it up
a little nicer as well and we just want to mask out all the areas that aren't
our wall so I'm going to go in and draw another mask over these holes in the wall
and just set them all to subtract and
continue to do that for all of them
and now we have a pink layer that covers our
entire wall so let's turn its opacity back up to 100 and make it art layer
visible again and making sure our art layer is underneath that Matte we're going
to change the track Matte to alpha Matte and that will only make what's visible
in our Matte visible on our street art layer now that's getting close but our
art is still going on top of this guy here so we could do is subtract him from
our Matte as well but he is a much more complicated shape than these holes and
the ground so it's gonna take a lot of time to draw perfectly around him but
because he's on a solid white background this is gonna be really easy so all we
have to do is get our wall layer up here duplicate it
bring it on top and with that pencil selected just draw roughly around him
only really making sure we don't get shadow involved and we're gonna treat
this kind of like a green-screen so you could do this a couple of ways you could add
the effect color key and then select the white here then play with these settings
until his edge looks nice or what we can do is add the extract effect and this
brings up this histogram where we could see the dark and light values and
because we know we just want to remove all of the light values from this we can
click on the bar underneath and just drag that to the right to remove all the
light values and there we are now there's a couple more things to make
this effect look a lot more realistic the first thing to do is sort of color
match our art with the scene now we've got a pretty limited color palette and
it's mostly neutral so the only thing I think we need to do here is turn the
opacity down to maybe 85 so that will just give a little bit more texture
that's visible underneath that layer and make these bright colors a bit more
muted and let's add some more texture to our art as well so I'm gonna open up our
art layer and I'm gonna drag in this paper texture that I have here I'm gonna
add a curves effect and really increase the contrast and we want to see a lot of
black and then a few speckles of white here as well and then what I'm gonna do
is change the blending mode of this to silhouette luma now when we do that it
doesn't look like there's much happening except we can see a couple of specks of
our white showing through here but what this is actually doing is these white
spots here all the white from our paper layer are cutting through all the layers
underneath and making them transparent if we turn that transparency grid
on go into our composition settings and change the background color to pink
which isn't actually visible and now you can see these white areas are cutting
through and making it 100% transparent and we can add more of that as well by
changing the contrast on this curves effect about texture here there that's a
little more like it now if we go back into our street scene
we can see that the paper texture kind of looks like the paint has been worn
away on these areas here which makes it look a little more realistic the
compositing and to finish it off, I added these yellow dripping shapes to kind of
make a little more use of these really interesting windows in this building
here now this drip was done on a single shape layer with three shapes inside it
we have in a little ellipse that just falls down they get removed and a little
sort of splash shape and then a bit of path animation on this top shape here
we've got the drips stretches down and I added some smiley faces for fun as well and
you can take a closer look at those in the project files which you can download
for free down in the description I made a short playlist of some related videos
that'll think you'll enjoy if you've made it this far I'll see you in the
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Subtitle: Zoe J Marriott