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hello guys Yannick here for Cinecom.net and welcome to another copycat Friday a
series where we recreate effects from famous movies and
music videos and today we are having a look at an artist who's really blowing up lately
Lil Nas X. His previous song Old Town Road was everywhere
It is so popular that even John Rambo uses it in its latest movie trailer and let's be honest
It's kind of weird hearing that song with a super killing machine stabbing and shooting everybody
But we are not here today for Old Town Road. No today. We are going to tackle a new song, Panini
And yeah, it's again really catchy. But this time it also has a clip fully loaded with awesome effects
And from this clip we are going to recreate the hologram effect
You can see throughout the whole video for this
We are going to use After Effects as this will give you more options to make it realistic
but first, let's look a little bit more into Holograms and
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what is a hologram really after some researching I can say that the hologram is an image created by a
Photographic projection of a recording of a light-field rather than an image formed by some sort of lens
Okay, I guess but let me simplify that for you
A hologram is a 3D projection of light that exists really in the space and is visible to everyone without the need of 3D glasses
Which is pretty cool
also
I hope that science will perfect this technology one day so that we can use it in our daily lives
Like video calling or maybe even gaming but I have to say that we already have come quite far. Let me take you back to
1860 where the first holographic elements were used by John Henry Pepper back then
He invented an illusionary trait called Pepper's Ghost
And this trick is the foundation of holography to explain the trick really short
It worked with using the reflective properties of a glass wall placed on a stage
This glass wall was placed in an angle so that it could reflect everything from the area beneath it
Then when turning on the light in the lower laying area
You could see the reflections on the glass wall creating a hologram the technology at that time was mind-blowing
But it had restrictions due to weak light sources such as oil lamps and candles the images appeared were only faintly
Recognizable or very transparent for that reason mainly ghosts were shown
Which also led to the naming of Pepper's Ghost now that we know where holography originated
Let's have a look at the first film that used Holograms in their story
And guess what guys it's again Star Wars A New Hope damn
It's really getting to me how groundbreaking Star Wars really was and how did they do it?
Well, as you can see here, they film the objects
They want as Holograms in a black environment then afterwards they could blend them in with the original shot
Super simple. We are also going to use some sort of blending technique, but with some extra effects, however,
There's also a very easy way to create your own DIY hologram, but this has a huge size restriction
So not something we can use but I'll leave you a link to the DIY hologram tutorial in the description below now in current films
Holograms are ever present you can see them in the typical whole-body Holograms, but also in different shapes and styles for example
Here Holograms are used in the HUD's of the Iron Man suit
these typical Holograms represent the Iron Man's vital signs and fun fact
We did a Cinebattle recently about recreating the Iron Man HUD's within one hour
So if you haven't seen that go to the description below and find that link ok
I think we can say that we have talked enough about Holograms. So let's jump into it
(Jordy:) Here we have it guys a great set that Yannick built
So what we have right here are just some movable walls and that way we could create a hallway up there
We've got the Aperture 120 D's and over them
We can find space lights, which is just a soft fabric around them now
That way we have like a clean soft lighting over the entire hall because we've got two of them
But we don't want to shine the light onto the walls because that way everything will be flat. So that's why Yannick crafts these
Black, what are they called?
Like cuts cut fingers around it so that you cut the light
also
if you have like highly reflective elements in your scenery such as these things right here and make sure to extra flag that off and
Yannick place this flag above these
Elements to do so and that way the hallway's lit and not too much the walls
then when your Holograms pop up bang
We've got a light for that because holograms is basically light so it has to reflect light unto the subject
and of course on the scenery itself, so that's why we've got a light over there which we can control through a remote and
We also have one over there the same remote. That's basically it furthermore
we also have smoke in this room as you can see that is just done through a simple haze machine here around the corner and
That smoke is gonna make sure that we have some more drama
Going on into the set. But also that the entire scene looks more soft. You know that we got more depth more dynamic into
The scenery. Yeah, that's that's basically it
Did I do a good job? Yannick? (Yannick:) Yeah, Jordy you forgot the practical lights behind you (Jordy:) practical lights
Oh, yeah, I forgot the practical lights. You also have practical lights the back
Practical lights are basically lights that can be visible in your shots such as the lights hanging over there
We also have like a little fireplace with a lumie inside
Yeah, it's just pretty cool because these lights get extra depth to your shot
Definitely if you get them sitting in the back
Practical lights can also be things like a a decorative light that you have standing in your living room
Anything like that place that in your background and instantly, you've got a ton of more depth in your shot
Really cool technique and you can play around with any color that you like (Yannick:) now for the movement
We went handheld Jordy walked behind me and followed me to the end
It took into account where the Holograms would be and made sure that would be enough space for them
We use handheld motion to make it more dynamic, but you can also shoot it from a tripod
This will make everything much easier and post-production now for the green-screen
It's quite simple just place your actor who is going to be the hologram in front of the green screen
More or less match the lighting of the hallway and film him
This is exactly what Lil Nas did as you can see here in behind the scenes
Like him you can add last detail by making the actor jump up a little to make the hologram pop up more realistic
I know that we went very fast over the green-screen part
but if you want to learn more about this
I'll leave a playlist linked in the description below full of videos where we explain everything in detail
Ok now, let's jump into After Effects
the first thing we are going to do is place the background shot on track number 1 and on track number 2 you can place
The green screen shots now key out the green from the hologram and let's start with the tracking of the background shots
Of course if you use it, right?
But you can skip this part
But if you use handheld motion just like us you need to track like I said
Select the background layer and go to the tracker panel here
You can select the track camera button and let After Effects to its thing when the tracking is done look for the point
Where the hologram is supposed to jump up and here you can hover over the track points to select the place
You want your hologram at if you don't see that many track points
this means that After Effects doesn't have enough information to work with so always make sure that you have a lot of structure in your
Scene now right-click on the wanted points and select set ground plane and origin after
This you can go to the effects control panel and create a camera
The whole shot is now completely tracked, and it's time to create the hologram
Look, the first thing you now need to do is pre-comp the hologram layer, of course
Don't forget to enable the option
move all attributes into a new
composition now go into the pre-comp layer and add the glow effect from the effects library in the effects control panel you can now
Play around with these settings
We decreased the glow threshold and the glow
Intensity then increase the glow radius and set the glow colors to the A and B color option now in the lower settings you can
Change the color A and B to something you want
This will already give you a very nice glowy effect the next effect
You can add is a turbulent displace for the settings of this effect
You can change the displacement to horizontal displacement
After this increase the amount to around 60 and decrease the size to around 5
This effect will make the edge glitch a little but we still need to add some movement into the glitch
So enable the animation for the evolution and animate it from 0 to 3x over the entire length of the clip next
We are going to give Jordy more of an old TV
Look, this is easily done by the bad TV - old preset
If you want you can dial into the settings to tweak it to your likings
Last you add the opacity flash preset to the actors clip
Now this preset automates the opacity flashing from 0 to 100 through some codes, which is too much
so we are going to change one value in that code in the linear line change the to 0 to 60 and this will make sure
That 60 is the lowest that the opacity will go ok
Jordy already looks like a real hologram. Now, let's make him fly in which is really easy
Just look for the CC Ball Action effect and drag that to the hologram clip in the effects panel
Make sure that the CC Ball effect is above the glow effect
now in the beginning of the hologram clip set the scatter to around 70 and
Enable the animation for it then go further in time and set the scatter to 0 after
All these effects go back to the main comp and make the hologram pre-comp a 3D layer by enabling this box
After Effects will now do something strange with the position rotation and scale of the layer
So let's adjust them until the hologram sits perfectly in place
You can also enable the animation for the position of the hologram clip and move it down out of the screen then go further in
Time and animate the hologram back up and it's that easy
Just enable the motion blur and bam Jordy is a hologram
But the only thing that is missing now is some text
We recreated the cylinder text from Lil Nas' video as an example
You can easily do this with the CC Cylinder effect within After Effects
But you can also apply the hologram techniques and effects to a flat 3D text or maybe even logos
You can go as creative as you want
Last week. We went to IBC and now the only thing that Jordy can talk about is gear
I don't want to talk about gear. Let's talk about some money. I want to race
(Hologram Jordy:) Yannick have you seen the brand new Canon C500 Mark II, oh, it's gorgeous gonna get one
No, no. No (Yannick:) No Jordy stop talking about gear
Damn (Hologram Jordy:) Gorgeous. Oh, yeah, I love gear, I love gear so much, ah yeah, definitely
Here you are, listen to me, the Sony FX9 so much better than Canon C500 Mark II (Yannick:) no Jordy, stop it (Hologram Jordy:) because its a full frame camera, and check this out
(Yannick:) And that was it for today guys, I hope you enjoyed this video about Holograms and learned something new
Thank you so much for watching. Thank you Storyblocks video for the support. And like always
Stay creative