in today's video i'm going to create some really cool vfx on the go with this laptop
alright so here is the deal we're going to try and levitate myself in the forest so we need
two things we need a clean plate so we are going to record our environment separately from myself
and then in the same environment we're going to set up a portable green screen
and record myself against that green screen in two times
once it's going to be the animation of my top body and once it's going to be the animation
of my feet levitating from the ground and hovering in midair so let's get started
right now comes the moment that we're going to record with the green screen so
or we can actually choose green or blue what do we go for maybe blue we are going blue screen
ah no and i'm also wearing green it's gonna be fun all right so we have another challenge to see
how uh we're gonna get this one solved but oh that's a pretty big green screen
okay i cannot do this alone please help
so now we have recorded our three different shots and we need to paste them together in
adobe after effects and i chose for being in a different environment staying outdoors because
this laptop allows me to do that i'm going to be using the acer concept d laptop alright so let's
get started i can actually work outdoors with this laptop due to the quality of the screen
it's really amazing and bright enough to work outdoors right here alright so the first shot that
i'm going to be using is this intro shot which is shot with the gimbal and all i want to do here is
put myself here in the center and start floating so i'm going to drag this into a new composition
and the first thing that i want to do here is track my footage so i'm going over to the track
tab tracker track camera and then go into the advanced and just check detailed analysis i'm
not sure if you can hear the birds through my microphone but it's actually rather nice
to work outside for for a change while we're waiting for this track to be done we're going to
start keying myself out of my green screen so the first shot that i want to work on is the igneous
off ground shot which i'm going to also bring into a new composition and so right here you can
see that i have two buddies of mine and zoe and arno the reason why we've done that is to get this
realistic feeling of lifting off the ground and also have my lag animation to look as realistic
as possible so what i will do is i will choose to go over to effects and presets and search mocha ae
i'm going to drag this onto my footage and open up mocha so now i want to key out my green screen
mask a little bit around myself to make sure that i don't have ends away or are no in my shot and
what you can do is actually transform this laptop so let's go and do that we can bring this out and
now we can do some nice rotoscoping just like that and that just makes the process a whole
lot easier so let's do that all right so what i will do here is i will mask around my pants
i just want to keep everything in here just like that and actually i'm just going to cut out at
uh the green screen itself okay so we have this mask and now i want to make sure that this mask
will always stay in position so that my legs stay in this mask so i'm just going to double check
and scrub through my timeline you can see the knee entering here so i'm just going to create
a new keyframe tuck this in a little bit there we go and then we're going to keep searching
right here i go up so we can bring this up as well we don't really have to care about the top
part because i tucked my shirt in my pants and in the other video we have my shirt out of my pants
so we can then mask it out on top of it to make everything blend together nicely so probably right
here i'm going to cut it off because our nose is getting too close to me i have all these insects
getting on top of me i think we're almost there so this is going to be obsolete we don't need
this mask to do any trekking so we're also going to turn off the tracker now we're going to click
on the x spline again and this time i want to zoom in so i'm going to hold z and then drag in here so
i can really see um my legs pretty close to the camera and then i'm going to start clicking here
so i'm just going to be rotoscoping the bottom part of my feet because they're exceeding the
green screen here this is something you wouldn't need to do if your green screen
would actually cover your feet i just wanted to have the real interaction with the ground
we can right click to deselect and then tuck them in i'm also going to start on the second
foot and then we are going to track them separately
so i'm going to do this pretty roughly for now uh but obviously the more
time you spend on the rotoscoping part in the keying part the better your results will be
so once you have some i'm going to just rename this shoe one and this shoe too
then we're going to check the gear for the shoe too and also just make it invisible so we know
exactly what we're working with and i'm going to start trekking backwards because i started my
mask right here so i'm just going to track it backwards and all i want to do is this
mask to stay in position and just rotoscope my foot so i need to adjust it wherever i see
the track going off track and in the meantime enjoy nature it's pretty beautiful over here
all right so now it's trekking in mocha ae and this is going to take a little while but it's
already going a lot faster than with any other conventional laptop that i have used before
this is due to the processor which is optimized for production especially after effects requires
a lot of processing and this processor makes after effects flying fast and comparing it to
a desktop computer it doesn't have to underperform it also comes with a quadro rtx 4000 graphics card
which is also an industry standards graphics card which is very known to be very reliable so when
you're working on heavier scenes you can expect less crashes and more stable workflows and also
everything is going to go a lot faster than this gpu based it also comes with 32 gigabytes of ram
so all in all this is an incredible versatile laptop that allows you to do a lot of things
that's nothing
so now this is what i have left i have my shoe one which is tricked and i obviously only tracked it
until it covers the green screen because there we can just key it out i just wanted to have a mask
when it goes from the ground to the green screen same for this shoe and then we also have this
other mask or i'm not exceeding so now we need one more thing and that's going to be the information
of the position of my pants so i'm actually going up in the air and i want this information to be
stored in a tracking data so i can then put my upper body back onto these legs and then position
them wherever i want and have my body actually follow that trick to just show you what i mean
is go again to the x spline tool and i'm just going to track my belt and i'm going to make sure
that i don't have any other gear icon and i'm just going to hit check forward okay so if you look
over there you can see this squirrel yeah that's pretty cool right but if you look over there
you can see a lion and there we have a giraffe man you even have penguins here okay just kidding we
only see the squirrel i'm going to just rename this belt so now we have four different layers
one is going to be the roto of my shoe one and shoe two now we have the mask around my legs
and we have the tracked information of the belt here we are going to leave the gear icon turned
on and for the other ones we're going to turn it off and now we're going to just close mocha ae
and save all the changes now what i want to do is go over to the mat and click on the button create
a e masks so now we are creating a bunch of masks for this and we can immediately see that we have
keyed out the first mask which is really useful that we have the shoes first now we have the other
obsolete mask which is actually taking ourselves and about we can even delete it we don't need
it so we just want this information here and then i'm going to right click and create a new
null object and i'm going to call this belt and so right here i'm going to add the strike data i'm
going to just make sure that i'm at the beginning of my timeline and then open up the tracked data
for mocha and i'm going to create track data for the belt click ok and then i'm going to
change or export the transform to the belt layer and then click apply and there we should have it
so now this null should follow my belt at all times so that's great i'm also going to press s
on the keyboard and just make sure that i turn this off i do not want to track my
scale and neither do i want to track um but we can leave the rotation on for now and so that's all
we need so we have our footage and the track belt now we can start working on the second shot which
is me standing here on a lock and again i opened mocha ae for this shot and all i did here is the
same process so first i have this mask around my upper body and what i try to do here is have these
lower points stick exactly to my t-shirt and you can see that i've really went through this
and took my time to roto this around the animation of my jacket and then for my zipper right here i
just tracked that separately because that was a little bit more useful with another layer so i
just concentrated on the rough silhouette of my clothes and then i just added back the details
and actually this one we don't need it so i'm going to delete it or just make it invisible so
we just need these two layers so basically what i'm doing here is using mocha to do masking but
i find this to be working a lot better so i'm going to close this and save all the changes
and then right here again go into create ae masks that's going to give me something like this and
now what i want to do is start keying the green screen and in the meantime we have kids playing
around here so yeah you do get disturbed a little bit while you're editing outdoor but it's also
good to meet some people get like different ideas sometimes they can come over here and
share some inspiration you know kids have great inspiration and great imagination so i'm going
over to effects keying and i'm going to add the key light 1.2 and choose or sample my green color
then i'm going to change the view to screen matte and i'm going to play with the screen matte here
to get my desired result then i'm going to set it to intermediate result and i'm also going over to
effect again keying and if you want you can use the advanced spill suppressor now i'm going to
use these key light and advanced build suppressor copy this and paste it right here onto my legs
so right here you can see that i do need to have a little bit more adjustment so i'm going to turn
off the advanced build suppressor for now and reset my key light and sample a new color to make
sure that i'm working with the right color and actually i do see my mistake now it was actually
working well but the mask color here is green so i thought it was spill of my mask but it's actually
the mask so we're good to go all right so uh now what i want to do is bring my shot here of myself
on my top body and what i want to do here is go to my anchor or pen behind tool and click on the
anchor point and just put it somewhere around the belt area then i'm going to click on this layer
hold ctrl press c to copy or go to edit copy go to your original footage and paste it in this clip
now all we need to do is press v on the keyboard to have our selection tool and try to match it
accordingly so i'm going to zoom in here maybe we need to make it a little bit bigger maybe a
little bit smaller and just drag it over the belt there we have it now we're going to just parent
this to the belt and i'm going to select all the layers hold ctrl shift c move all the attributes
and this is going to be my body combined so now we should have something like this
and it really looks like i'm taking off here i do tilt a little bit to the right so you
could potentially bring this anchor point to the center area and then just counter animate it if
you don't like that because one was bigger than the other when taking me up and i do
lean a little bit to the other side so what i will do is just bring one animation uh well keyframe
here and then when i find myself leaning a little bit too much just counter animate this like this
and all you can do now is select both of these keyframes right click keyframe assistance easy
ease all right so now let's go back to our intro shot that we have tracked so in this shot i'm
going to bring in inies of ground composition which we just combined and then i'm going to
click on the footage that we've tracked and i will go over here to the 3d camera tracker and choose a
position i want to be in so somewhere around here then right click and create a little end camera
so this is going to be my 3d position i'm going to press p on the keyboard for the null and then copy
its position info and go to my new composition here and turn this into a 3d layer and then press
the paste the composition or the position of the nil to this layer now we're going to drag this up
and we're just going to eyeball the skill ideally you would have been in the shot for a little while
and then walk out of the shot so you have a better understanding on how big you appear in that shot
we didn't have that so i had to eyeball it i think something around this should work
so let's add a curves to darken my background a little bit and to match it better to
me so something like this and then we want to find a location where i'm kind of opening my arms like
all the energy is coming through i'm going to press p on the keyboard for this composition
and i will move forward quite a bit because i really want this to be slowly and powerful so
right here i'm going to then just shift myself up a little bit or just position this position it up
wherever you want so this is completely up to you and now we can select
both of these keyframes right click and easy ease so now we have myself levitating
that was smooth right
and there we have this creature
all right and there we have it so our levitation effect looks pretty great
obviously to fine-tune it a little bit what i've added is some screen shake which we have
done with the free screen shake preset with link in the description you can download that as well
you can also glow your eyes a little bit by using mocha to track your eyes and then
add the perfect glow which is also for free with the link in the description and then i added the
leaves that are actually floating all i have done here is masked my leaves out a little bit on the
floor so whatever leaves you see in the shop i've masked some of them out just three to be
exact and then in my main composition i created a new solid with particle world on top of that
and imported those leaves as a texture for my particle and i've just reversed the gravity so
instead of falling down they went up all right and that brings us to the absolute final result enjoy
all right and that's it i hope you enjoyed this video if you did give
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more and also i'm going to leave you with another upload of mine so you can continue
your vfx journey and i'll see you in the next one until then create epic videos