hey what's up in today's video i'm going to show you how to walk through a wall using adobe after
effects we're also going to see a few tips and tricks on how to improve that look and make it
look even cooler for this video i'm going to be using the acer concept d7 diesel it's incredibly
fast and it makes running adobe after effects like a breeze this is especially due to the xion
processor and also the quadro rtx 5000 graphics card which is an industry standard and high-end
graphics card for yeah very serious work if you want to follow along with the exact same footage
as me you will find that with the link in the description below we're going to use this footage
right here and bring that into a new composition in adobe after effects the first thing that i want
to do you can see myself standing here against the wall and i'm walking away so what i want to do
is i want to start rotoscoping myself out of this shot so i'm going to hold ctrl and press d on the
keyboard to duplicate my footage and then i want to double click on that layer to open it up you
will get a warning here that the resolution should be on full so i'll go back to my composition here
and set the resolution to full resolution just before we start rotoscoping so i'm going to double
click again so now i want to concentrate myself on the roto and for that this laptop is actually
really amazing because here on the side we can see that we have this little pen that i can take out
and the fun thing is that i can also bend my monitor completely so i can customize
it completely to my preferences and my type of work that i'm currently doing
like right now it's an ordinary laptop but if i want i can flip the screen completely towards
my audience let's say i want to show something to a client or i can just close it from here
and use it as a touch screen laptop but what i will do is i will go in halfway and turn it
a little bit to myself so i can see what i'm doing and i can easily paint my roto
but i still have access to all my buttons under my laptop and then i will start my
roto so i will go to my roto brush tool here and i will zoom in just a little bit
and place it over here and then start painting myself out here
there we go then hold alt to delete any unwanted areas and just try to match your first key as
clean as possible so you really take care of your first frame when you're masking make sure
you're on the first frame as well and then after that we can uh well it will go bitter smooth
so once we have this we can now start playing our video to check
if we have any errors in our mask or um yeah over time so i'm going to start playing this
so let's say that right here we would um actually get back to our original position we can actually
stop the roto or just let it go through the entire timeline but just so you understand you don't
really need to do the entire roto you just need to do it for the moment that you're coming out
of the wall so i'm going to stop my roto here and i will press the freeze button because i already
had a pretty solid roto and it doesn't need to be perfect anyway so i'm going to click this button
right here that's going to freeze my roto it's just going to speed up the entire process also
something that i really like to do is when you're done rotoing is rendering that layer out with a
transparent background without the roto effect anymore applied to it and then just re-import it
to adobe after effects that's just going to make everything run a lot faster while you're working
on stuff for this case i'm not going to be doing that just because the specs of this computer
allow me to work super fast no matter what so i don't really need to bake anything out here
all right so our freeze is now done so we can concentrate back on other stuff i'm going to
revert my monitor just back to a normal laptop so go back and what i want to do is call this layer
my roto layer and basically i want to fill in the background first so let's see if we can do that
i'm going all the way at the end of my clip and i'm going to duplicate my footage
then right click on my footage and go to time freeze the frame then i will rename this clean
wall
and so now i want to remove myself from the background to do that i'm going to use my pen tool
here and just create a rough mask around myself and go for none open up the mask options here and
create a keyframe for the mask path and then move a few frames forward until i'm completely like
out of the wall it should be around here and then move the mask again over myself and just control
every keyframe in between that to make sure that the mask covers myself up completely for the
entire duration here by the way if you don't enjoy the color of your mask or it's really
hard to see it you can always click here on the color of the mask and just make it more intense
there we go so now we can easily see our mask i'm going to go here and split my layer
and now on the first part i just want to click here on my mask and set it to subtract
solo this layer for now and i'm just going to head over to the tracking tab or the content over fill
tab right here and then just click here on fill method object and generate fill layer
that will generate this fill layer as you can see here and now i'm disappeared for the
entire duration of this video so i'm going to bring this on top of my original footage
and i'm going to disable it for now and i'm just going to look at my footage
and look at my axe okay so i'm walking through the wall i get out
and i think around here i'm actually out of the wall so i'm just going to cut my
freeze frame here towards the end so you don't see me
then i will get through the lens and then i want it to find myself back so
i'm going to press t on the keyboard click on the stopwatch go till the end of your
video and then set it to zero and then i want to just make our original footage longer
and now you will just transition into my original footage the reason i'm doing that
is this is always going to look cleaner than my roto
now let's concentrate on the roto which now you can see that we have a layer
with still me here uh but we want to maybe for example trim it until where i start my act
like right here and so as my hand here is currently in the foreground what i also want to do
is first animate my hand so i'm going to duplicate this for now and put this on top
of my roto this is my original clip i'm also going to double click on the mask and just delete that
and then rename this arm roto double click on that footage and go to the beginning of the timeline
and you can zoom in here and use your roto brush tool just on the forearm and my hand here
so i just want this part here to be rotated and if i play this it should already give
me a clean track again i don't need to go through the entire hassle of doing everything
so until here it's more than enough i can trim this
layer all the way until here and then freeze this layer as well
okay so now that we have done our arm roto i'm just going to uncheck all these solos and i'm
just going to solo or concentrate on the arm and i want to right click here and create a new solid
layer which is going to be my mask for the arm so this is going to be my alpha matte i'm going to
place it on top of that layer and just trim it to the same duration of the arm then i'm going to set
this um press f4 on the keyboard if you don't see the track matte and set the arm roto to be alpha
matte so currently we can see it because um yeah we have an entire solid here but we see that the
x starts around here so what i want to do is use my pen tool and just draw a little mask here just
like this and then press f on the keyboard and set it to subtract and set it to something like four
so we have a little bit of a feather but not too much or like even yeah let's go for like 10.
and so now we have our hand coming out of nothing like this and so here we can see it looks great
but we have a problem in the beginning so we're going to create a keyframe for the mask path
go all the way till the beginning or where we see this issue and then here we can just push
this up a little bit so we're coming through the wall like this and it's growing like that and so
we wait until we have the entire arm and then after that i also want to concentrate
on the roto so we can create a new solid layer and this is going to be my mask for the body
you want to create more masks so we're going to place this solid layer on top of the roto40 body
and we're also going to say alpha matte so now we should be able to see the roto if we also solo
this and i do want to look at the roto of the arm here so i can see where it's actually growing so
it's growing here and like let's say starting from here i also want the rest of the body to come in
so i want my face to come in display right here i also want my body to come and display
and i also want my knee to come in display
which is right here then press m twice on the keyboard do that again and twice on the keyboard
and now you should see all the options for the masks i'm going to click on the mask path to
create a keyframe for that we never know if we want to animate this and then for the feather i'm
going to just hold shift and select all of these feathers and just increase this to something like
40 or 30 something that you like and then we also want to select all of the expansions
and go a little bit back and create a keyframe for the expansion and maybe push these back into space
or back into the time and then push them out until i'm fully revealed like here and then bring these
further into time near the end of the animation and so if you're now going to look these masks are
going to grow and they're going to show what's underneath that layer um after so you can see
now that my entire body is like growing through something and that through something is the wall
so this looks great obviously you can tweak this and make this more perfect as you want
i'm playing with the mask and just thinking of how you would come through the wall as a real depth
object for example if you come head first you will first see this part of your head coming through
and then the rest of your body so try to think in depth what is coming through the wall first i'm
not going to get into detail here because yeah that's just up to you but now we get something
like that and that looks already pretty cool but i'd want to add a few more things and that's some
distortion so for the distortion i'm going to add it a new adjustment layer i'm going to call
this distort and i'm going to add here a wave distortion or actually what i want is ripple
so i'm going effect distort ripple okay then place the ripple at those points of impact so you can
place one for example at the hand that is coming through and then just animate this to react to the
hand so right here let's just make the radius a little bit bigger so we can see what we're doing
and right here i'm going to create a keyframe and set the radius to something like 10.
and then set the center point to be where the hand is coming through and then go back in time
and set the radius to zero and like also hold alt and click on the stopwatch for the ripple face
and we can also hit time times something like 150. and so now if we're going to play this we get
an animating ripple that is distorting my hand through the wall okay so that looks cool now
we can also duplicate this ripple and then offset these um so i'm going to press you on the keyboard
and for ripple two i'm going to select all these keyframes and just offset them to happen
right after the other one and then here i'm going to place the center point to be on the knee
for example so we have one starting here we can duplicate it one more time press u on the keyboard
then offset it even more and then place this one for example where the head is going to come true
and like that you're adding different reaction points for this rebel distortion
and then one more thing that i've done is i've also duplicated my original fill layer or so where
i'm not seeing and place that all the way on top and then i went to the moment when i start coming
through this wall and i also messed out the part a little bit where i'm coming through like so and
then i added a tint effect to this layer so i will go over to effects tint and then also an invert
and there we go and then the levels
and then play with these levels until you get like white creaks and black bricks
somewhat like this and then you can press f on the keyboard to feather this quite a bit and what i've
done here is i'm going to just delete the mask for now and the reason being is when you solo this
fill layer it will only fill the part that was the mask so we need to duplicate our original
footage as well place that also on top together with the fill just control that i duplicated it
okay then install this and then shift uh select both of these and then hold ctrl shift c to
pre-compose this and this is going to be my footage
with my removed stuff so i'm going to click okay just footage doesn't matter then go into
the footage and copy all of the effects that i applied to the fill layer ctrl x to cut them away
go back to our main composition by clicking here and then pasting that onto the footage
and now we will have that on the entire thing so that's what we wanted actually then i'm going to
mask this part out so like this and go to a moment when i start coming through the wall
i'm going to set the blending mode to be a screen i'm going to press s f on the keyboard to feather
now my mask like i wanted to and now i want to add a another tint effect on that footage
and this time it's going to be to color my footage so double click on that and turn it blue
there we go and now we can also add the perfect glow effect here which is a preset that you can
download for free on our website but it's a really powerful preset to give yourself a really nice
uh glowy look and so if you increase the intensity here and also increase this here
or just play around a little bit you can also play with the mask here and just push this a
little bit more up to space so we only have these bricks here but now it's like i'm really coming
through the wall here and um yeah that there are some like magical powers uh enforcing this
i'm going to press t on the keyboard and play with the opacity now so right here i'm going
to set it to 100 back right here set it to zero and then right here all the way at the end i'm
also going to set it to zero and then i'm also going to check that if i press m on the keyboard
then i'm going to play with the mask expansion here so right here it should be pretty small
and so if you want a more intense glow you can just go to the color of the last tint
and just bring it more towards a white collar and or play with the exposure tag as well
and then one more thing that you can do is uh use another adjustment layer
and on this adjustment layer i also used a displacement map called the displacement map
so i'm going to apply the displacement map here on the adjustment layer and for the displacement
map i'm going to use that footage layer also to displace it and so now we can start seeing some
displacement bricks into my body so if you look carefully it distorts a little bit more precisely
according to the bricks so i'm going to click here on that and animate those as well
and there we go once we have done that it should be more than enough and all we need
to do now is also add a feather here so also use the ellipse tool for the adjustment layer
and just make it a little bit bigger like that and then press f
on the keyboard and also play a little bit with the feather for those layers and then
one more last thing that we need to do is just make sure that the ripple effect also
lowers in radius here when it's gone so set this to zero here zero zero so we always have like an
animation right here zero value and zero so we just animate it on and off that's all we need to
do and just one more thing that i wanted to do is bring this footage layer just below my roto
for example if you want a different glow you can go ahead and change that here
and then right here we have a variation play around with all these settings it's really
going to be playing around alright so now that we have all of these techniques down
all you need to do is tweak them here and there play around with all the values until
you find something that works and that brings us to the final result right here
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