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Hey guys
and welcome to Cinebattle.
The show where filmmakers Jordy and Yannick battle against each other to see who's the better filmmaker.
And today I asked you guys on Instagram what these two guys should have made
And well
Let's say it's gonna be really difficult guys.
Okay
So we'll take a look right now
All right, we are used to difficult things right now. So that is good.
Not true.
You're ready guys?
I'm ready.
Let's go.
Jordy and Yannick
The Insta followers have decided to recreate the effect from this movie in one hour.
The portal?
It's a portal
yeah
The Doctor Strange portal.
Yeah, you guys have been asking that for a long time
Yeah
That's impossible
[laughs]
Okay, first question, can we use Storyblocks?
Well, that's a challenge
It's a challenge
It's a chall- a film making challenge
Can we use stock footage?
You can use whatever you want.
Whatever.
You need to be as creative as possible to recreate this really difficult effect in only one hour.
All right. Let's recreate the portal effect from Doctor Strange in an hour.
In an hour.
Come on, guys. Let's go.
[bell dings]
Alright, the first thing I'm gonna do right now is change my lens.
[Inaudible]
So since we're going outside Jill is gonna need an ND filter.
So I've never created the effect before - the portal.
So I'm just gonna spend most of my time in post-production and just make a quick shot.
Not think too much about the story.
I'm thinking about what I'm going to do.
I think I'm going to go for the comedy-style thingy.
Let's go upstairs.
Since Yannick is always doing some kind of story I am gonna try to make something funny.
If it makes sense.
I'm going to create a little sketch.
In the end of the clip that you just saw, you could see that one guy sitting and
one portal coming up and hitting him so I'm gonna recreate that little effect.
The reason why I'm outside is because we have a lot of structure here
and I'm gonna do some 3D camera tracking.
I think that might sell the effect even more.
I don't know
Let's just try.
I don't see if my sound is coming in
... uhm the display.
Okay.
No sound.
Hmm. I'm thirsty. Let's get some drinks.
Sunlight is pretty harsh.
You should put on an ND filter right now.
I'm just gonna close my aperture, and just bump up my shutter, which is gonna help with 3D tracking as well.
If you have a large shutter speed.
I've never seen such a thing before. Is that a portal? I'm gonna try and enter the portal
Do we have to make a story?
You know, I'm just gonna go inside and create the effect.
Let's just give the story to Yannick. He's probably fumbling with my computer right now
It should ...
And we can start editing.
Yannick is making a story again?
Yeah
I don't have a story.
I'm gonna try to get the effect as realistic as possible. That is my thing.
So when creating the portal you need to see something inside of the portal.
So this is the thing inside of the portal.
The first thing I'm doing right now is doing a 3D camera tracking
And
Yeah, wait out the results. I hope that the sun flare wasn't too much.
Get out of the chair, Jill. I want to say Lorenzo.
[shouting]
I'm working here again, damn it
Do you need an empty shot, Yannick? An empty shot that is exactly the same in the background?
Yeah
Okay
I got some drinks and Jordy's here - suddenly - dancing
Okay. A little bit of rules. Can we use Storyblocks? Can we use templates?
Do we have to make it from scratch? I suppose from scratch?
You have to be as creative as possible.
As creative as possible.
But if you're using templates you have to say it afterwards.
Okay.
Yeah
I'm gonna make it from scratch
Come on, Yannick!
What? I'm rearranging my internet cable.
No, you're...your...
What?
He plugged out my...Yannick!
I was trying to figure out how to make the portal.
Yeah, I was transferring so I didn't have anything to do.
We're gonna work with CC particle systems because
basically that's the most advanced particle built-in plugin from After Effects.
The only thing is that you can't map it to a path.
So we're going to have to be creative with some expressions.
Kaboom! I already got a circle.
Kaboom!
So I found a
Um
An expression online.
The only thing is that I need to adjust the code.
Obviously
This is a really good start
Now what we have to do is just change how the particles should behave,
how they should look and etc.
The only problem now is that we have a particle going in a circle, which is good, but it's just that one
like group of particles going in that circle.
So I want to try and figure out now how we can make the actual or the entire circle stay there.
Unfortunately, I don't think that I have enough time to figure that out.
So I'm just gonna do it the easy way
and that is by just duplicating that layer a bunch of times and just offsetting it
Hmm. I'm thirsty
Let's get a drink.
[Encircles face]
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Hey, Yannick
Shut up, Lorenzo!
You wanna know another effect?
Shut the [bleep] up, Lorenzo
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4
3
2
1
(whisper) No
Time's up!
Yeah, my hands are up. My hands are up.
Saving.
Okay. Now export and let's get back to the studio.
So welcome back guys.
So tell me, how did it go?
Um
Uh
Not enough time like always.
One hour to create the portal effect. We have never created that before.
We did get many comments from you guys.
We did create a portal effect once.
Yeah, but it wasn't the Doctor Strange portal. It was a whole new different portal.
But the thing is that
we need to figure out how the effect works within an hour and then create it as well, which is not enough time.
[laughs]
Absolutely not
I did take the approach to figure out how it how we could make it. So I just started from scratch.
I didn't work with external things
The only thing that I looked up was an expression for After Effects
which I changed.
The entire portal effect that I made was self-found and created without third party plugins.
Keep that in mind guys.
Within one hour.
And you, Yannick?
I used no third party
Third-party plugins... No, I used third-party plugins.
I used the same effect from Video Copilot because it's the easiest way to create
like an energy field something flow-y thing.
Yeah.
So. yeah, I used that and I worked my magic to it.
Okay, then let's not wait furthermore and check what you guys made.
Yeah, definitely!
I'm thirsty. Let's get a drink.
This is the thing inside of the portal.
And you're gonna create shadows and then you
I got some drinks and Jordy's here - suddenly - dancing
What was that
Like all the background noise, too
Yeah. Apparenty, I forgot.
But also, I didn't it - it was so fast. Let me see that again.
I'm thirsty. Let's get a drink.
This is the thing inside of the portal
And you're gonna create shadows and then you-
I got some drinks and Jordy is here - suddenly - dancing
[wheezing]
Apparently, I also forgot to activate my empty layer
So my arm is going, like, in the shot through to the portal.
I didn't even notice
[laughs]
[high-pitched noise]
At least you tried
Yeah, I tried, yeah
We can do a movie mistakes episode
[More laughter]
Hey guys, it's Jordy here for Cineco-
What is that over there?
[Portal ominously swirling]
Yeah, I know it's not the portal from...I know
It's just something turning around.
Yeah
But it's really hard to do that from scratch, Yannick
Is it?
It is.
Yeah
I'm definitely gonna use this for my New Year's video.
There you go.
Feeling some hate towards your video.
That was the end of the episode.
Who won? You can decide guys:
Is it Jordy or is it Yannick?
You can vote in the top-right corner, right there, who won.
Like, subscribe, and as always
Stay creative!
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