hey bro is the video ready so this shot was one of my favorite visual effects shots
when the movie came out so to start off we will recreate a fairly easy effect
from the movie wanted the keyboard smash effect in the face
all right my name is Ignace Aleya and welcome to the rebranding of our new videos vfx explained a
show where i reveal the mysteries behind your favorite Hollywood effects well in this case
it's one of my favorite effects but i plan on doing more of these videos so definitely let me
know below what you think of this type of videos i've always been amazed by the scene in the famous
movie want it and that's why i have decided to recreate this effect in today's video also if you
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so welcome to the vfx family now let's take a look at the famous keyboard scene in the movie wanted
in this movie we see an angry character Wesley Gibson getting extremely frustrated at work next
he does something that some of us might have wanted to do in the past but never really did
taking his keyboard and smashing it in Barry's face
so we're going to analyze the scene but how were they able to create the scene well it's actually
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alright let's jump into the real stuff now let's first analyze how they achieve this effect in the
movie
so there is no behind the scenes for this exact effect but now let's see how you can recreate
this effect yourself so first of all all we had to do is record our footage i invited my good friend
levito and we recorded this little sketch what better way to promote his beats through a smash
in the face am i right definitely go and send him some love on his channel i'll link his channel
down below so how do we create a shot like this well first of all we need to film this
in super slow motion so thanks to my Panasonic gh5s i could shoot up to 240 fps in full hd
unfortunately we didn't have a cameraman due to the restrictions nowadays and it could have
been a tad sharper i do admit that but it looks alright another thing you should pay attention
to is your lens focal length you'll need a lens that can zoom quite a bit 50 millimeters or higher
that gives the impression of everything standing closer together when you're standing in front
of each other all you have to do is back up with your camera stand further away and zoom
in with your lens unfortunately here again we didn't have that much space behind us
so i couldn't record with an even closer lens next you need to smash your friend in the face
but be careful though we don't want to make any injuries in this video i was actually more
than 30 centimeters away from the actor the video in this case just to be sure definitely
not to hit him in the face we just want to give the impression of hitting someone in
the face i also did some candy training in the past which basically teaches you how to use
a samurai katana so yeah i could get a little bit closer as i had a little bit of experience
go to available interpret footage and set my frame rate to 24 as it's set to 60. it's actually not
really 60 i recorded in 240 fps but it converted it to 60fps which then means that it's going to
play it already in slow motion at 60 fps so i'm just going to assume this frame rate and
now when i import this into a new sequence you can see that i have ultra slow motion right here
so it's pretty fast but basically if we're going to calculate 240 or 24 is 10 times
slower so all i have to do is speed it up 1000 times that should give me the real timing
and that gives me this shot all i want to do here is right click go to time remapping and speed
and create a keyframe right here and then just bring it all the way slower to
like 10 of that speed and then we're also going to give it a little bit of a ramp here
and give this a little bit of a smoothing curve and then you have like from speed to slow motion
and what you can also do is go into the speed and duration and choose optical flow that's going to
give it an even smoother way to play back and that's looking fantastic so boom now let's hop
into cinema 4d and after effects to recreate this exact effect i exported the part where i
want the keyboard breaking apart and i exported that as an image sequence this i can import in
cinema 4d so i have a reference of how my view will look so i can create a 3d on top of that
so now we need a 3d keyboard model we could model one ourselves or you could simply go to
turbosquid.com and grab yourself a pre-made model which has been done by a professional you know
it's gonna be good and it also comes with textures so you don't have to worry about all that stuff
so i brought that in cinema 4d and i retextured it using the octane render engine using the textures
of that guy you know but just re-texturing it for the render engine does that make sense
i just needed a chunk out of it so i drew a path and extruded that i used it with a boolean just
to get that part of my keyboard and to make it look all jagged and i also thickened the
keyboard a little bit so when we have it on an angle we can actually see there is some
thickness to it so it looks realistic i think and then i went to search for the relevant keys
on that keyboard and i copied them and i pasted them i also remodeled a little part of the keys
just to give them a little bit more detail just look at a real key and try to remodel
that a little bit and i pasted that on each key that i needed to use close up on the camera
you can also just use one letter once so for the name levito that worked out well but i couldn't
go for lavito beats because that has multiple letters multiple times so i selected levito
and then i also made a group with all the other keys so i can use them later on just to give a
little bit more detail to my scene so i dragged these into a particle emitter and i burst out
a few particles and then applied some gravity to it i also reconstructed the walls of my scene and
made these a collider body so then i used these extra keys in the emitter as particles and i added
a dynamic tag on those particles to interact with the walls i also played with the dynamic timing
in cinema 4d to give that nice time remapping effect you know it's always smooth if you can like
it's pretty amazing but then then i had to do the hardest part getting each separate key to
spell out the name the video and that meant hand animating all of these keys individually
to burst out to get them in the position that you want to get that slow motion stop in a correct
fashion and to keep the flow going of the entire animation always been scared of this part actually
i never really enjoyed animating because i didn't feel like i was capable of doing that you know
so as you can see i also imported the texture of my keys in photoshop and i also added some blood
splatters i also changed the colors to be white instead of the uh red and orange because that
would look like it has lights and it's definitely not plugged in so it couldn't have lights
think logically so i basically changed the colors to better match my original keyboard try to make
it look like the actual thing so yeah once i had this down i wanted it to also have motion blur
and depth of field to give that extra realism using the octane camera it actually has some
really easy settings to get a realistic camera results because what we're basically trying to do
is make it seem like we actually recorded these keys on set with our camera in slow motion so
if it has noise you want to add in noise if it has distortion you want to add in distortion if
it doesn't look sharp it shouldn't look sharp so it has to look worse in order to look better
after this i exported each element separately through the octane render engine and brought
all these files in adobe after effects here bring in your original shot and now it's time to do some
rotoscoping no no no so we're rotoscoping myself using the rotobrush 2.0 tool a super efficient
tool to do rotoscoping and it's lightning fast i just needed to do the hat part but actually
because it's so quick i enjoyed it for the first time in my life and i just rotoscoped the entire
body because it literally took more like not more than two minutes it's crazy so here i'm using my
mask to hide the parts behind my face before they actually fly towards me so it looks like they're
actually having a 3d perspective and i also did some final compositing on all of the elements
and added an adjustment layer on the top of everything to add these graphitizing effects like
i had some noise chromatic aberration curves a little bit to adjust the colors
and then our own blood splatter pack available at creatorgalaxy.com and then i brought all of that
in premiere pro do some color grading do some sound design and voila we have an entire sketch
that seems about right let's render
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