hey guys Jenna care for scenic um dotnet
and welcome back to another copycat
Friday 10 the week's go fast it's almost
Christmas again now before we start
fantasizing about the cool gifts we
could get let's see what we are doing
this week and by seeing the title you
can already guess we are doing an effect
from a social media platform not take
dark this time but Instagram and who is
one of our favorite instagramers well -
Barney she's a super talented and
creative filmmaker
you should definitely follow her on
Instagram or other platforms if you want
and what your awesome content I'll leave
a link to her Instagram in the
description below now the effect that we
are recreating is this square dance that
she made especially for the Puma are as
extreme move which is a shoe by the way
and I must say when I saw this affect my
brain broke a little the idea behind it
is simple but it looks so awesome so
let's not waste more time on yapping and
start this tutorial
first thing we need an anti shot and
like her we are going to use a moving
empty shot so take out your trusted
gimbal and let's make the shots of
course you can also do it hand out if
you want
now do what every movement you like but
there are two things you need to do
first let your dancer stand in the shop
and you move backwards with your camera
then you freeze and the dancer runs out
of the shot once they are gone you can
start moving again and do the ones that
movements then the second thing
let your dancer to a strong dance move
just on the moment you freeze your
camera movement this point will be our
transition from a normal dancer to a
square dancer and not the country type
you know what I mean okay we have our
anti shot now for the dance shot and
this time we need a tripod place your
camera on that tripod and let your
dancer go well but he needs to start
with the same strong dance movement as
in the anti shot so they will match and
that's it for the shots now for the
post-production which is going to be in
After Effects first let's place the
empty shot in our composition then look
for the point where your dancer does
their strong dance movements and you
stop with your camera movement here we
can make a cut by pressing ctrl shift D
then go further in time and look for the
point where you start moving your camera
again here you can also make a cut and
delete a part in the middle you can now
place the two clips against each other
next we are going to add the clip of the
dancer to the composition here we are
again going to look for the strong dance
movement and make a cut right there
then place the cut sync with the cut of
the empty layer and if you have done
this correctly you normally have a small
jump cuts in your background and dancer
but it will look like one motion the
jump cut will be fixed later on now for
the square parts and we try to find
something so that we didn't have to mask
everything manually and that something
is mocha ae which is a very good
tracking plugin and don't worry it's a
standard plugin for after effects at the
mocha effects - the denture clip and in
the effects control panel you can click
on the move
logo which will open a new window the
Moka window here we are going to do our
trekking so select the square spline
layer tool and let's start make sure
that you are in the beginning of your
timeline to create your square spline
and we are going to start with the head
so draw your square over the head now
once you have the spline you first need
to disable the scale tracking option and
this will also disable the other
tracking options except for the
translation option the one we need then
you can start a tracking but you
probably need to pause and adjust the
spline while it's trekking definitely if
you have a dancer just like Jill here
who doesn't understand it when you ask
him not to do big movements
damn you Jill damn you
but luckily mocha is quite good and
tracking so normally you don't need to
adjust it too much once you are done you
can save your mocha data right here and
close the window now we are back in
After Effects and you can go to the
effects control panel here open up the
bad option of the mocha effect and by
clicking on create AE masks you will
transform the track spline from before
into a mask and - look at that we
already have a track square but we are
not finished yet all of this what I just
told you you need to do again for every
body part that you want but once you
have done this you will have this cool
result and I must admit it takes some
time to track it all but it will mainly
depend on your dance so maybe keep it
simple right Jill however I must admit
that the dance does look cool the next
step is going to be the 3d tracking of
the anti shot so let's select the empty
clip art behind the cut go to the
tracker panel and select the track
camera option let FX do its thing and
look at that we have some beautiful
tracking points now look for the point
on the ground where you want to place
your dancer here you right-click on the
white triangle that appears when you
hover over the ground then select a set
ground plane and origin option again
right-click on the same white triangle
and this time choose create a no line
camera that was the tracking now let's
place our dancer
the TV space select all the body part
clips that you have and we are going to
pre count them here you can choose to
move all attributes into a new
conversation and once you have that you
can make the new pre-comp layer a 3d
layer by enabling this option right here
next up is positioning the dancer on the
right spot so select the null object and
open up the properties of the node here
you can select the transform property
and copy them then go to your dancer
clip and paste the transferring property
of the node to your dancer but this is
not enough so open up the transform
property of the dancer and let's adjust
some stuff first set the opacity to 100
then with the first two parameters of
the anchor point we can align the clip
closer to the null objects next up is
the rotation start rotating so that your
clip is standing up and facing the right
way
then go back to the anchor point and
again with the first two parameters we
are going to adjust the clip so that the
bottom of the dancer clip is perfectly
aligned with our null object and this is
super crucial otherwise your clip won't
stick to the ground and will shift now
of course use the scale property to
increase the size of your clip and once
you have done this you will have this
crewel effect super awesome but we can
take it one step further we give the
body parts an extra animation just go
back into your body part pre-comp
and here you can animate the position
for every body part of course you can do
whatever you want but what we did was
enhancing the movements of the dance so
if Jill would do a cake we exaggerated
that cake by animating the tricks going
away from the body and coming back and
that's the main principle of making this
effect now what about a jump cuts well
this can easily be fixed with a bump
animation select everything and pre-comp
it then just before the jump cuts create
a keyframe for the position and the
scale on the clip then on the jump cut
increase the scale and adjust the
position next again go a few frames
further in time and reset the properties
turning everything back to normal this
way you hide the jump cut and create a
transition now what if you want to
rotate your body parts well the problem
here is that your anchor point isn't in
the center
you're masked out part of the clip and
this is necessary if you want to rotate
or scale but animating the Anchor Point
by hands is great so if you want you can
always download this third-party script
called reposition Anchor Point that will
help you with this I'll leave a link to
that script in the description below so
what do you do go back in the body parts
pre-comp and select the body part
duplicate that and place the duplicate
underneath the original then leave the
mask and the MOCA effect from the
duplicate and set the track match from
the duplicate to alpha max then select
our original clip and pre composes here
you can choose leave all attributes in
this comm then the last step is to place
your anchor point in the middle of your
new precomposed clip you can easily do
this with the third-party scripts
however you still need to animate it
frame by frame but you just need to hit
one button each frame which will speed
up the workflow once you have this you
can rotate and scale the top clip which
is functioning as a track map and if you
do this you can see that the mask is
spinning around or can be adjusted in
size but again these last steps are
unnecessary the rotation and scale are
just something extra and with all this
knowledge you can create this super cool
square dance effect
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we still have time for a janux bun back
foundered did you know that cash money
is so cool that Will Smith reposted a
video of hers well he did and that's
super awesome
however Will Smith's never repost Cinna
calm that's sad
but luckily we have you guys who keep on
watching and never stop doing that but
that was it for today guys I hope you
learned something new thank you so much
for watching and like always stay
creative
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