Hey, everyone let's be a Navi! Hey everyone, this is Tyler Bradley. Welcome to another After Effects
tutorial. Today I will be showing you how to do sort of like motion capture in After Effects;
I mean I guess it's motion capture. So let's get into it. First thing you're going to need to do
is record yourself, like your face, or whatever, or record your actor, and then drag and drop that
into a new composition. Now place your face - the face you wish to make move - on top of your your
own face. Hit T, lower the opacity, so that you can line it up better with your face. And just
try to get it as close as possible. And then pre compose it. Select "move all attributes to
the new composition" because we want this new composition to be the same dimensions as the
one we have right now. Let's name this "avatar mask." Ok, so now we go into it and we select
the ellipse tool; make an ellipse over one eye, then switch it to subtract, over the other eye,
and over the mouth. Now, we got a mess around with the mask path. Make sure they're all on subtract
Okay, looks good... um, actually no it doesn't. We need to feather it a lot out a little bit.
Okay next what you want to do is shut off the avatar mask layer and make an ellipse - and
this is going to seem weird but - just draw an ellipse where your head is and then switch the
mode to none. Now go over here to tracker, select your mask and select "face tracking detailed
features." Now track forward. What this does is it recognizes your face and makes key frames
for each tracking point. But we can use those key frames to move this avatar mask by linking puppet
pin points to these. Okay so at this point while I was recording I didn't realize this,
but my headphones that I was using to record my voice actually got pulled out of my computer so
the rest of the video has no audio so I guess I have to like record over wha-- heheh- this
is kind of stupid, but okay. Right here I'm explaining how each tracker is *stutters* all
the trackers go in a specific order and you need the order to do the puppet pins because you have
to do the puppet pins in the right order or your face will look like a crumpled up
piece of paper. Select the puppet pin tool and go inner eye brow, middle, and outer.
The bridge of the nose, the tip of the nose, the left and right. Next comes the mouth,
and then you do the cheeks, and then the chin, make sure you're doing it in the same order
that I'm doing it, or else it won't work in the end. Now it's time to link all the puppet pins
to the corresponding trackers. So puppet pin 1 was the first puppet pin you did and
that corresponds to the the inner eyebrow on the left side of your face so just keep doing that.
Next what you want to do is color correct your skin but to do that first you have to pre compose
the two layers because the expressions don't like to work when there's other layers on them.
Okay so go into your new composition and isolate the mask layer. Now bring your original footage
underneath the mask layer in the original composition. Search "curves" and plop the
effect onto the base layer of yourself. So adjust until you get a blue color so that means bring
down the red bring the green down some. And bring up lightness of the RGB and the blue channel.
Make a mask around your eyes and mouth, and adjust the mask. And keyframe it. And then you're done!
You just turned into a freaky Navi thing ...yay. Hey everyone let's be a Navi