Hey guys, Yannick here for Cinecom.net
and welcome back to another Copycat Friday.
And as you probably noticed, the last two weeks we are doing some kind of
Superpower team
and this week,
guess it or not,
is the next superpower,
Superhuman strength.
However, we kept it rather simple this week,
but still super cool
because we are preparing for a huge livestream Jordy is going to do this Saturday.
If you want to know more about it and set a reminder for it,
go to the description below and find the link for it.
Now while doing research we of course found all the super powerful heroes that can lift anything they want.
For example the Hulk who can throw cars around like they were toys.
But we also came across a lot of videos with real people with real super strength
like this
Brazilian Hulk man who just casually lifts up a car.
And of course you also have heard the stories about people saving others
who got stuck on their something heavy in a life-or-death situation.
Well, this was all inspiration for our super human strength effect.
For our effect we're going to work with a simple practical technique
that uses perspective changes to make it feel real.
Now, what do we need?
Well, a slider and a tripod
and of course a camera
and also a car.
Now mount your camera on the tripod
and mount it in such a way that it can use the slider to go up and down.
Set this whole construction on the spot you want to film,
then lock the slider on the highest point and start recording.
The first shot is going to be the actor without a car.
Make your framing so that there is enough room for the old car in front of the actor.
Let him do its thing and on some point he can act like he picks up the car.
Try to time his movement because we're gonna match that to the movement of the car.
When you have the shot keep the actor standing on the spot and now it's time for the car.
Find somebody very responsible
and let them drive really slow and safely towards the actor and in the right spot.
And guys,
be really safe!
I mean this, don't do this without a driving license!
The actor can leave now and then it's time for the shot of the car.
However, first we are going to place a green screen behind the car.
We do this to avoid the weird shifting backgrounds at the end effect.
Okay,
let's make the shot now!
Unlock the slider and move your camera from up to down.
Again, time it and try to do the up-and-down movement in the same time as your actor did his movement.
This will create the perspective change we need to pull off the effect.
And
that's it!
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Now post-production: Let's place the actor clip in a new composition.
Then it's time for the car clip.
Just put it on top of the actor.
The first thing you can do is pre-comp the car layer and open up that pre-comp.
Once inside, we are going to stabilize that shot so the car remains on the spot he is now.
Select the stabilized motion optional in the tracker panel,
enable the rotation and the scale for the tracking options
and now you will have two tracking points.
Set them both on a recognizable place and then start tracking.
Once done, you can simply apply the tracking and
BOOM! Your car is fixed in its location.
Now it's time to mask out the car.
Make a detailed mask around it And of course animate it for the entire length of the clip.
This will leave you with a stabilized car without a background.
Just what we need.
Now, last key out the green and you can close the pre-com composition
and head back to the original composition.
Now we need to align the movement of the car with the actor.
So look for the point where your car starts to change perspective
and align that with the point where your actor starts lifting
Before we can animate the car, we first need to place the anchor point just underneath the front wheel.
Set keyframes for the position and rotation of the car clip on the spot where the two clips align.
Then go further in time and Look for the point where the extra stops lifting.
This is our queue for the animation of the car.
So let's rotate it.
You probably also need to animate the position, so the car always stays in your actors hands.
Look at that!
We're already lifting up the car.
But of course we are missing some details.
Like the shadow.
But we can easily fix that.
Just duplicate the actor layer.
Now, with the Lumetri effect, you are going to make the clip darker
and then let's mask out the shadow.
You can always use the real shadow as a reference for the mask,
but also for the color of the shadow and the darkness.
Once you have masked out your shadow in the beginning
we also need to animate it towards the end of course.
This however is going to be a guessing game,
because we don't exactly know how the shadow will distort.
So I think that the shadow will go a little bit inward and also becomes more soft when lifting of the car.
So change your masks to your likings and try to match the animation to your light source placement.
Which is going to be different for everybody.
Ok, the last details:
The wheels
The front wheel, of course needs to stand still all the time.
So duplicate the car shot and remove the rotation keyframes.
On the car duplicate we are going to draw a small mask around the wheel
and we're also going to freeze-frame the clip on the point where the first position keyframe is.
A second thing we can do for the wheels is let the back wheel drop a little
so we get the feeling of a real car suspension.
Again, duplicate the car clip and of course you can name every duplicate to keep your workspace clean.
Now on the back wheel clip we are going to draw a mask around the tire.
Once done we can copy the mask and paste it to the original car clip.
However, we do need to set the mask from "add" to "subtract".
This way the back wheel is removed from the original clip.
Now you can animate the position of the back wheel clip so that it drops a little when lifting the car,
but you will probably notice the gap between wheel and the car.
An easy fix.
Just create a solid layer and with the color selector select a dark color from the wheel case.
Now place the solid underneath the car clip
and go to the point where we start with lifting up the car.
Here you can draw a rough mask in the shape of the wheel case
and then just parent the solid layer to the original car clip and
BOOM!
The gap is gone and the effect is finished:
Pfff...
Hey Lorenzo!
What are you doing?
My car is making a super weird noise and have no idea what it is.
Let me help you.
What do you mean you're gonna help me?
Just wait and see Lorenzo,
but maybe ...
just move a little bit, just to be safe.
Ugh, that's quite heavy.
Lorenzo, get beneath it.
Okay, give me a second.
Do you see something?
I think I yeah, yeah. Yeah,
here it is.
It's a, it's a dead cat.
A cat?
You killed Jordys cat?
No Gilles, this type of dead cat.
That leaves ius with Yannicks Fun Fact FOUNTAIN!
Did you know there's a world record for most nails hammered with a human head?
You heard me, a human head.
Well, apparently John Ferraro has such a strong skull he can hammer nails in wood with his head
and to be precise
he can hammer 38 nails in two minutes.
That's one record I won't break
or at least I don't want to break.
And that's it for today guys.
Thank you so much for watching!
Thank you Storyblocks Video for the support
and like always:
Stay creative!
(Buzzing)
Guys,
there's a fly here.
There's a fly flying around here.
(still buzzing)
I need to kill him.