In this video, I'm going to
show you
how to add realistic tattoos to skin
using mocha pro.
Now, you may know that mocha
comes built in to after effects
for advanced motion tracking,
but I discovered this new feature
that's only available
in Mocha Pro and it's called Power Mesh.
And essentially,
it allows you to realistically track
and blend
any type of insert or graphic into
any type of surface that you imagine.
So for example, right now,
we could use power mesh
to add tattoos
to my face
in the tattoos would move
and bend with my cheeks as I talk.
So if you'd like to follow
along to the product, demo
files are just down below.
And without further ado, let's
go ahead and jump in and have some fun
for this video.
I'll be using After Effects,
but it can also be used
in Premiere, Pro, Avid
and other effects host.
Now if you have Premiere
and after effects,
I recommend using after effects
because the multi-frame rendering
just makes preview
and rendering so much faster,
but the same steps apply
inside of after effects.
I would just go down and drag this
to create a new comp
and then we would go
to Effects Insert for Mocha Pro
and then double click
to apply it to the clip
to make it easier later on.
I'm actually
going to duplicate this clip,
so I'm going to Press Command D
to duplicate this
and I will call this number
two and I will call the first one,
number one.
For number two,
I'm going to keep Mocha Pro on
for number one.
I'm going to delete it
because later on
we're just going to have the insert
on the layer to
and then we will pre
compose it
and I'll show you how to do that later.
So with Layer two selected,
go ahead and open up Mocha Pro
here inside of Mocha,
you'll see that
I'm in the classic workspace.
You may see essentials.
I recommend changing this to classic
or using power mesh.
The next thing we can do
is zoom in on the area of the back
that we want to add the tattoo
so you can click Z and click to zoom in
and then you can press X
to go to the hand tool
to move it into place
to create the track.
You can use the explained tool
or you can use the shape tool.
We can just click and drag
over the area
that we want the tattoo to be in.
So now that we've selected
the area that we want to track,
we're going to go down to the track
module here and select perspective
and mesh,
and then you will see that
a mesh was created.
And essentially what this is going to do
is be sub planar tracking
because MOCA uses planar tracking,
but this is going to track
all of the
granularity movements of the skin.
So we need it to be a mesh, right?
It makes sense for skin.
They recommend
using uniform
instead of automatic
and then press generate mesh.
So after you generate mesh,
you'll see
that the points moved into a more
uniform mesh.
So then from here
what we can do is track forward.
And while this is tracking welcome back.
I'm Kelsey
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can be used for much more
than just adding tattoos.
You can also remove things
you can do sky replacements.
There's so much that you can do in
Hollywood films.
They use specific sweet
to create all those amazing effects
that you see on screen.
And now that the tracking is done, let's
go ahead and head back into Mocha Pro
and just play back.
And you can see how the mesh is moving
with the muscles of the skin,
which is exactly what we want
to test it out and begin
the insert process.
We can go to the insert tab
and from insert clip we can try out grid
eight by eight just to see how it looks.
But you can see
it just isn't working with the skin.
So what did we do wrong?
Well, we didn't do anything wrong.
We actually need to go down here
underneath comp
and turn on power mesh warp.
And now
the insert is warping to the skin,
which is what we want.
This is exactly how it should look.
So from here
let's actually go to insert clip
and instead of grid by eight,
let's actually import our tattoo.
So go to choose
and let's choose
the boho school and import.
And from here
we just need to adjust
where the tattoo is on the back
and then we need to play around
with the blend modes
and make it look like
it's more realistic on the skin.
But first, let's move it into place.
Hover over the center,
blue point, click
and move it around into place.
We can also scale it and press shift.
If I want to scale it up
or down to maintain proportions,
we can also hit rotate it
to rotate it into place.
I'm going to hit, shift and scale it up.
You might have to make
some adjustments to this
just by moving edges around
until it looks right.
So I'm going to go in
and make some fine tune
adjustments to make sure that the tattoo
looks like it's in the right place
and in the right proportions.
A few moments later.
So now that it's in the right place
now, we need to play around
with the blend mode.
We can do it from the Blend Mode
dropdown here,
but it's actually recommended
to do it on the layer itself
inside of after effects.
So I'm going to undo that hit save
and then we can close down mocha pro
and from here nothing's happened.
What's going on?
What we need to do is go to mocha
and from the module renders
click on render
but change it to insert cutout.
And this is just going to have
the tattoo itself,
not the full composite,
but now we need to pre
compose this layer.
So from layer to go up to layer
pre compose and then hit.
Okay,
now we can go to blend mode
and change it to darken and press t
to bring up opacity.
And I remember that
because it's like transparency,
which is why we press t
and we can lower this down to like 80.
So already that's looking more realistic.
So zoom in on this tattoo
so we can see it more up close.
So before this was normal
and now we're at DARKEN,
which just blends better with the skin.
It makes it look more realistic,
like a tattoo.
So from here
we want to add a little bit of blur
because on the tattoo on the left,
which is the real tattoo,
it has a little bit
more bleeding
and blurriness on the edges.
It's not as refined as this.
So to do that,
we can add a blur, of course,
from effect controls.
You can search for Gaussian blur
in using the built in blur.
But I really like the PCC plus blur,
which comes with the continuum,
which is part of Burruss effects.
So you can drag and drop
whichever blur
that you want to use
onto the effects
panel here or onto the clip.
And you can see
it just looks way too blurry.
So from here
I'm going to decrease the blurriness
down to like 1.7.
I'm going to zoom in
so you can see this better.
We can actually change the blur X amount,
which is the horizontal.
So if we want
some more bleeding to happen,
we can click and drag this out
to create some more blurriness
side to side
or the blur y
which is vertical up and down.
After we add the blur,
the next thing I want to do
is go to Luma tree
color and double click
to apply it to the layer.
And then from creative
I want to redo the saturation
because right now it's a little bit
too bright.
Pull this and just a little bit.
Now you can see that it's not as intense
as it was before
and it looks a little bit more
muted and more realistic.
So if we turn off the blur,
this is what it looks like before.
And if we turn off the memory color,
you can see it just doesn't
look as realistic.
So let's
turn them back on again
and let's play it out
to see how it looks.
All right.
And here
you can see that
the tattoo is moving seamlessly
with the skin
as his muscles move when he flexes,
which is exactly what we want.
So this is how you can create realistic
tracks and blends
using power mesh with Mocha Pro.
And if you want some more advanced tattoo
tracking or removal,
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