today we are changing eye color hey what's up ladies and gentlemen
I'm Ignace Aleya and in today's video we're going to see how to change your eye color to
whatever color you want in adobe after effects I already used
this technique in a few different videos lately you've seen it in Fallin'
new music clip that I directed and edited if you haven't seen that a link
is in the description it's a pretty awesome song by my bro Lavito but
there are many ways on doing this effect if you have blue eyes you're already a
lucky one because then we can manipulate the blue color in two different cores a
little bit easier then we can with brown cores but if you have brown eyes you can
still do that effect if you have a well let's see unfortunately I have those
much more beautiful but brown eyes which are harder for applying effects
anyway I'm up for a challenge if you enjoy watching this video be sure to
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bow so you get notified when I upload new videos so the first thing that I did
is imported my footage in Adobe After Effects of course and I still had some
footage from Halloween where I was doing the vampire teeth tutorial and a vampire
without white the red eyes isn't really a vampire so we're going to use this
footage as an example so as I said it's really important to have well-lit eyes
it's so important to make sure you are not in the shadow or anything place
yourself in front of a window or light your eyes with artificial lights like
I'm doing right now if you see those kind of white reflections you're good to
go if you want the same footage as me I'll put a link in the description below
so you can follow along with the exact same footage as me so after you've
imported your footage drag it to the new composition icon in your project manager
this will make a new composition with the exact same timing fps and resolution
of your shot then next we will use a tracking tool to track or pupil if you
don't see this panel simply go to window tracker and here you want to track the
motion and only the position so it's a pretty simple trick go to the frame
where you see the pupil very clearly and then make a tracking area exactly on the
pupil the inner square is the tracking region and the bigger or outer square is
the search area I thought to make this one bigger so the track knows better
where to look something like this and then hit the track backwards button if
you are in the center of your video clip and then after you've done that go back
to that initial start frame and then track forward once your entire track is
done we want to create a new null object in our composition right click new No
and rename it right I track this you will need to do again once you start on
the other eye so it will have to track the right eye and then create a new null
object for the left eye I will only show you one eye as workflow is exactly the
same once you've created your no now get into your tracking panel and here select
a null object then go with the time scrubber to the beginning of the
composition this is really important and hit apply it will ask you for X&Y
just click OK and boom you have a track on the pupil now create a new adjustment
layer choose your circular mask tool and make a circle around your eye now you
have an adjustment layer with your eye selected but it still has some
overlapping over the eyelids which we will need to fix in a second now you
miss parent this layer to your know that contains the tracking info to do that
simply use the pick whip tool and select your no object for the other eye you'll
need to create a new adjustment layer create a circle and then parent it to
the new trekt no now we need to key out the eye whitespace so the circle doesn't
overflow on the eyelid to do this I will use a new and awesome tool that came in
the latest version of Adobe After Effects CC 2019 if you don't have this
version yet you can simply mask out this part it will only take longer so above
the adjustment layer with the circle of the masked art we want to create a new
solid layer so right click new and solid layer this is going to be our alpha
matte leave it for now and then select your original footage layer now I'll go
to effects and presets and search for the mocha AECC this is the new tool that
now is inside of Adobe After Effects you don't need to leave the area this allows
you to open up a new version of mocha inside of Adobe After Effects so you
don't need to leave the area awesome it also works a lot faster than before and
simply in love with the new update I had a big rotoscoping job today and that was
just when they released this update I used this effect all the time and it
saves me so much time it's it's incredible if I didn't have
mocha I would have killed myself probably but yeah anyway once you have
the mocha effect applying to your layer you'll see that you have a mocha logo on
the top and if you click that you'll open up the mocha
workspace here I want you to go to a location where you see the iron very
clearly the beginning in my case is perfect for that so then I'll select the
X line tool and click around my eye until I have a complete mask of the eye
white right click to finish your mask and now we will click this track forward
button let the track the entire eye stop the track where needed and adjust the
mask it won't do a perfect job but this mask is here to guide us through the
process once it's finished to play it back and see if it matched perfectly
otherwise adjust where needed close the MOCA window click Save now we want to
disable the MOCA effect and open the panel and here you'll see create AE mask
click that and this will transfer our tracked mask to a mask inside of Adobe
After Effects this mask will be applied to our footage so we don't want that so
I will click on my mask I look like control X to cut it away and I will go
to the beginning of the timeline and select the alpha matte solid layer that
we created a little while ago here I want to face this mask info make sure
the solid layer is on top of the eye adjustment layer and click track matte
alpha matte if you don't see this simply toggle the switches or hit f4 on the
keyboard we're halfway there you can also use some feathering and some mass
expansion to really narrow down the effects and make them blend in a little
bit better so now all that less is to do is adjust the actual eye color for this
I will select the adjustment layer of the eye apply 3 effects the first one is
exposure next hue/saturation and then lastly levels I like to use these three
effects in combination to really create my chords that I want to play around
with a little bit now it's simply a matter of playing around with these
effects to get your desired results I'd like to bring up the exposure quite a
bit you can lower the saturation in the hue saturation effect and then bring up
the black to create these kind of white zombie eyes which are really cool it
also resets the hue and increase the Hugh radios you change the actual color
adjust the contrast with the levels and that's basically it on how to change
your eye colors so as you can see in the preview you really can achieve any kind
of color as long as you have well-lit eyes it's quite an easy process it's all
a matter of playing around you can also use images but those
to look a little bit fake rather quickly but that way you can also kind of get
these kind of snake eyes or different things and if you have a badly lit scene
you will need to use kind of I'd textures to cover up the actual eyes so
that's also something you can play around with anyway I hope you enjoyed
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