Hey what's up ladies and gentlemen welcome back in another exciting
tutorial in Adobe After Effects I actually just got back from LA where I
was invited by Adobe to join as an adobe insider and Adobe MAX which was an
incredible experience I met so many creative and awesome artists and they're
all were so great so it was a really enjoyable time I had a great time in Los
Angeles but now I'm back in Belgium working on another tutorial for you guys
so let's jump into it and actually if you are interested you could have seen
all my days at Adobe MAX on my Instagram account so definitely
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highlights for Adobe MAX 2019 all right so the first thing that I've done is I
shot myself a green screen so that gave me freedom on what background I'm gonna
put there I wanted something industrial so that's what I went for and then now
we're gonna be talking about how to achieve that actual effect which is
really cool to achieve this effect what you need to do is actually to be able to
track your face because it's moving and we want to track something in there so
we have to track it as good as possible of course you know you already have like
the point tracking tool in Adobe after-effects which is a great solution
if you want to track something if the position is moving or the rotation of
the camera is moving a little bit you also have the option to go into mocha
where you can do planner tracking which is also really exciting where you can
just have that plane when you move your camera you can also put something on
there and then lastly you have the 3d camera tracker inside of Adobe After
Effects where you can actually treaty camera track something and then put
something on a wall or something or actually 3d track your face but that was
basically it for Adobe After Effects that word
options to track something but now something really exciting just got
released and that's actually called lockdown lockdown is a mesh trekker
which means that you can have tons of tracking points which is going to track
everything individually so if you move your face it should also track
everything perfectly on your face and what does help for that is to also add
some points on your face maybe some dots I didn't end up doing that because I
found my face has enough texture to actually track it so I have my beard I
have my hair my wife and my eyebrows and stuff like that but of course if you
have a clean-cut face if you don't have a beard what I would suggest you to do
is first just take a little pen and put a few dots well make sure the dots are
visible for the camera but make dots on your face that's going to come in very
helpful for the Trekker all right so here we are in Adobe After Effects I
have my footage right here you can see that yeah this is what I recorded
against my green screen I'm going to drag it into a new composition and there
we go so right here you can see the window
lock down which I already have opened and that's actually right here this is
an extra tab that comes with an honorific so I can actually just drop it
over here so we don't lose too much real estate of Adobe After Effects that's not
what we want but lockdown is essentially a
third-party plugin but it does such an incredible job and it really improves
like it performance of After Effects for real because you this is like possible
in Adobe After Effects and with a few clicks you get such amazing tracks you
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but it's such an amazing plugin that I was just amazed but actually we do have
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alright so here we are in after-effects as you can see I have my shop right here
so as I told you before we have this lockdown panel right here so the first
thing you want to do is precompose this shop so that does that for you
automatically and there we go then inside of the shop I'm going to click on
my footage layer here and I'm going to also apply the optional tracking filter
what this does is that you can see it adds a lot more detail to your face and
also I get textures my pores are getting more prominent on this video which means
it's going to give a better track it's going to give more information to the
trekker so or actually motion because we're actually going to be tracking a
mesh and you're gonna see it's really crazy so the next thing we want to do is
apply the lockdown effect naturally because we click the pre compose button
right here it already added lockdown forests so we don't have to actually go
to effects and lockdown right here we actually have it applied if you use the
pre comp from here all right so it's actually super simple to use what you
want to do is think of what you want to be creating if you want to track your
entire face and apply like some kind of paint on it or like makeup you could do
that with this effect as well but I want to track the entire face just because
you don't know what you might end up doing and this is so fast for real it
doesn't matter if you add tons of points or just a few the tracking those super
smooth super fast I've never seen a tracker this
I'm not even kidding so right here we have lockdown the first thing that you
want to do is it actually instructs you in the description right here what to do
so you hold ctrl or command and then also select a lockdown very important is
to select the lockdown effect itself and then hold control and start like making
points all over your image so as you can see try to make your points in detailed
areas what you can also do is for example just drag while holding control
that's going to make like this pattern which is also handy can I click in
between if you want more detail I'm just going to track the entire face and see
what I come up with you don't need to track that much but in this case I just
like to do it because it just goes yeah equally as fast so that doesn't really
matter if I'm going to track everything I tried to keep my points evenly as well
alright so these are the points I just created you could actually make them in
the beginning or in the center it doesn't matter where you actually start
making these points just as important that you see your face promptly and
clearly because if you move a little bit it's going to yeah just make sure that
you have like a clean image to start with we have our track point here all
right so next what you want to do is just press to track the points click
what it's already done you gotta be kidding me alright so here we have our
track if you move forward in time you will see that these points actually
track very well over time
all the point state very nicely in position as you can see right here which
is super cool bunch of that now we can go back to this filter these filter
effects we can just disable them because we don't need them anymore we have our
points that's exactly what we need and then the next thing you want to do is
click Auto triangulate the mesh so we click that and we will get something
like this if you're satisfied with this then just apply the mesh on this frame
well actually I'm going to then do this and go to the beginning because I prefer
that kind of frame right here because I'm more frontal I'm going to apply the
mesh over here okay so we have our mesh and all that rest is to do for real is
to click the lock down button so it's not that hard your clip is locked down
ok so that's cool we have our pre composed footage right
here so let's open up comm and actually if we play this back here what you will
see is your face but actually stabilized so even if you moved like this it's
going to just stabilize your face yeah it looks very weird but you can see that
it's doing a incredible job especially at the cheeks the month the eyes are a
little bit difficult because we we do tend to move them but we don't need to
apply anything there but literally now you can apply anything to this layer so
we have this guide layer to show you the background and then this is what is
stabilized but yeah basically what you can end up doing is just create a new
text object or let's let's say that we want to give myself some
so we can go and maybe I like it's a 2 over here or we can do whatever we want
really at this point so I'm going to just put that on my nose here and let's
see how that looks in my original shot
and we can actually see that because we applied this text it's start shifting in
3d which is really cool so especially right here we can see that it's kind of
shifting in 3d so because of all these points that it's tracking it's an entire
mesh and that makes it look like it's actually on there that is so cool for
real laughs I'm gonna love it as plugin and I'm gonna use it tons of thanks for
a lot of awesome stuff I can assure you anyway
we wanted to create determinated phase effect so what I've done is I jumped
into Adobe Photoshop i extracted actually this frame I jumped into Adobe
Photoshop I took a Terminator robot effect about-face on Google and then I
started painting out with brushes and stuff I'm not going to dive in too deep
and this effect because it's basically Photoshop stuff and I ended up getting
that result which looks cool and then I extracted only a PNG image here of the
Terminator face and what I will do is just drag this into this composition so
I'm going to click on the PNG image drag that in here delete this one right here
we have our face looks cool
and it doesn't look quite in place but we can just read just it because I
actually made this look on a different frame it doesn't matter you can just put
it over here maybe scale it down a little bit put it in place cool and
that's basically it so now we just go back to our original footage render
design and it should basically stay in place and there we go super cool and
then all I ended up is applying some glow to my eye I use the perfect low
effect for that alright so that's it for this tutorial I hope you enjoyed it if
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