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Have you ever wanted to play a big role in a Hollywood film?
well
I've got the secret on how you can get in and party with the celebrities even films that are already outs
Because we're gonna do some editing. Not sure if you can party with the celebrities afterwards
But you sure can edit yourself in that party last week or was two weeks ago
I don't know some time ago
We published a video about how to create the black veins on Billy from stranger things season treats
but for the intro I
Decided to have some fun and make this fun skit where I'd remove the actual
Billy from the scene and place myself in there, you know
We actually had no time at all to to make this. Everyone was seeing your Jory stop spending your time in this
But so anyways have to go super fast and 100 things went wrong
Like you can see here the background glitching and all but for the skit we didn't really care so much for those glitches
Surprisingly you guys really enjoyed that intro and for wondering how I did it?
Well, I'd love to show you guys it all starts with filming yourself
You want to recreate the lighting for starters?
And if you're insured how to do that and start off with the easiest, which is speaking an outdoor scene
This means that you only need to pay attention to the position of the Sun
So that's quite easy
If you're swapping yourself with someone walking
you're gonna have to mimic that walk as well and don't just stand still and walk on the spot as you'll definitely notice that you
Could use a treadmill which is definitely gonna work and make it yourself easier
But if you don't have that you'll have to walk and have two guys walk with you holding a green screen
This is the original scene with shots from a Steadicam
We could also just shoot hours from a gimbal since it's pretty fluent and you're working on slow motion
It'll match pretty well. If your scene is handheld then it's gonna be trickier
You're gonna have to do a 3d camera tracking
And for that I'm gonna link to another video in the description below as we already covered that multiple times
So that's the shot now
Let's see an After Effects how we can remove Billy
Start off by drawing a mask around the object that you want to remove and you might need to animate this mask as well
So that it keeps covering their subjects
also
make sure to invert your masks as you want to get rid of it and
Finally also better to mask a little bit more that way you'll get better results. Now from the window menu locates the content-aware fill
From this window make sure that object is selected from your fill method
This means that you want to remove an object now
There are two ways to start removing Billy the way that I've done. It was just clicking on generate fill layer master effects
will then make thus calculations and paint away Billy frame-by-frame into a new PNG sequence and
It is really it's there's nothing more to it
The only problem is that you've cut out a pretty large chunk for the video and you're letting the entire
Automatic systems they care for the removal
So your background is gonna glitch
Tremendously a little fix that I did was adding Gaussian blur on the clip to cover up those mistakes
But you can only blur it for a little bit. So it's not really a solution now
This is how I did it if you've got more time than meat
And before you click on generates fill layer you first click on create a reference frame
I don't we Photoshop will pop open with the first frame of your clip in it
You can then go ahead and paint the background yourself. Now. I have no patience whatsoever for this
I'm sure it won't fix the issue as it are like hundreds of people
Walking around in the background so I would never do this myself
Personally, I know that Jenna can probably do this. He's got more patience than me, but he's on vacation right now
So that's not really gonna help. So assuming that we've painted back everything in Photoshop
You can then click on generate fill layer, and you should get a better result now
so
Finally you place yourself in the shots mask around your green screen and pull the key using key lights and then comes to color correction
Now this is gonna be different for every scene. So I can't really give you a straightforward answer
You see it looks very warm. That is what I pay attention to
So I use for the Metra to pull a look orange into the mid-tones a lot of orange goes
I'm pretty White's they even saw me shooting this intro from the International Space Station now to neutralize the shadows
Which are also orange now. I added the opposite blue and this is the base now furthermore
I look at the contrast in the exposure levels and just try to match them side-by-side
now I actually have a tutorial plans very soon about
Matching shots and creating looks and so so if you're interested make sure to subscribe and now let's check out the master
Shots the very first one where I came through the door
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Below and now back to the clip for Billy walks through the door here
I didn't have to remove much from the shot. Only a tiny Forex where Billy came in from the wall
The hardest part was getting me into that shot
So we took an actual wall outside which had a door in it
And I would simply walk through that door paying much attention to the same timing as for the lighting behind the door
That was just a black curtain so that I would come out to me a dark room
I could have placed a green screen in there
but that meant that I needed to remove Billy entirely and
the lighting would be an issue since I needed to come out from a dark room and
Spooling a key from a low light scene is gonna be super hard
So I believe that we had this perfect
Solution there and after effects enabled timer mapping for the lair and with its opacity set to 50
I saw the background clip going frame by frame forward
I changed the time value to synchronize the speed of the door with u1 from the real shots
Then I drew a mask around the casket of the door and animated where the door would open
We also shot this from a tripod because my door needed to stick perfectly into the existing door
So I did a simple
motion tracking for the position scale and rotation on some dirt marks that I found in the real shot now where I came out of
The door and burned the brick wall
well
That was one of the darkest moments in my life because I had to mask myself out frame by frame
And I don't I don't have the patience for I guys I just really don't and before you say rotoscope
Well that tool has never worked for me. So be my guest
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And that said guys that is how I placed myself in stranger things but most importantly howdy content-aware fill works
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