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despite the challenge hey what's up ladies and gentlemen my name is ines aleya and
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in today's video i'll show you how i have created these awesome floating sea animals
a stunning and mesmerizing effect that has been used in a ton of videos because it looks
so surreal like another dimension like a microverse is my universe a miniverse
microverse a teeny verse so without further ado let's make them fish float
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so i have made some of these sea animal shots the workflow is basically the same for all of
these you actually have two ways to create this effect way number one is have a real underwater
shot of an animal but make sure that the water around it is crystal clear and fades off to a
solid color like bluish greenish that way you can easily key out your animal and place it on top of
other footage i think filters for your lens while recording are also going to play a big role here
now i have tried this technique first and i couldn't really find the right footage to do
this effect and i don't have like sea animals right here in the neighborhood so i couldn't
really go out and shoot and as we're not really advised to go out i didn't end up doing that so
i'm going for option number two get a 3d model on your desired animal you can either find it rigged
or not rigged i found these at turbosquid.com from 3d moliere's collection i think that's how
i pronounce it i will link them below if you are interested so i downloaded my desired 3d
model usually these also come with their textures i then went to pexels.com to find me some footage
for this shot i thought this is a pretty cool shot with a turtle that would be floating like next to
the train so i imported this clip in adobe after effects and because this shot has movement in
it i will need to key out the train with a mask before i can track the shot correctly otherwise
the tracker will mistaken these frames and corrupt the track so i make a quick mask around my train
and i set it to subtract i also check the entire video to make sure that the mask is covering the
train at all times then i will pre-compose this clip to burn the mask into one foot
then i will pre-compose this clip to burn the mask into my footage and i'm going to 3d camera
track my composition once you are done you can see all these dots next to your black space
now you can dive back into your composition with the mask and disable your mask and set
it from subtract to none and now we have brought back our footage without having that area tracked
great then i selected a few points and i right clicked and added a new camera and null
object now i'm going to export my clip to cinema 4d by going to file export cinema 4d exporter
a great way to send over data from after effects to cinema 4d alright for the second part we open
our clip in cinema 4d i also added a background object and i added a new material with my video
clip in the diffuse channel i also checked animate preview so when i apply this material to
my background i can see my clip in the background and see it animated as a reference one great thing
about exporting from after effects to cinema 4d is that it also copies my footage settings now it's
time to bring in my turtle first i bring it into a new project where i can focus on only the turtle
i texture it and then i also rigged it and i'm no pro rigger so i just did a quick job here just to
have some animation in it this took me quite a while to complete because i always end up having
bugs and glitches when riggering rigging i really don't like this process as it's such a tedious job
but i needed some animation in there so yeah i didn't have a choice after rigging i animated
the turtle to make it look like he's swimming i also added a vibrate tag to give it some random
floating movement in there to make it a little bit more organic i really like to use this tool
to make things more organic then i brought in my turtle into my original scene to integrate it into
my footage and then i animated it going forward a little bit i also added an hdri sky this is a
360 map that is going to act as my lighting but i had to look for a similar location so that the
lighting would actually look as realistic as possible for the environment we are in
so then i set up my octane render i didn't do a multi-pass workflow this time as it wasn't
that hard so i just did a beauty pass render which seemed good enough i didn't need that much control
afterwards so i let it render for a little bit and luckily because of octane we're going
super fast with this process at eight seconds per frame then i brought it into adobe after
effects added in some final color correction and i also made my 3d model fit more into the scene
by adding a little bit of noise blur and rsmb motion blur that brings us to this final result
and for the other shots i also did the exact same thing just with a different animal
and on different footage that's basically it for this video i hope you enjoyed it if you did give
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