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-Hey guys, I've been sick for a few days now, but I'm finally back at the office
and I'm ready to work on our new vid...
...Jordy?
-Lorenzo?
Is that you?
Hey Lorenzo! Man, I missed you!
Hey, Lorenzo, we have to shoot a new video for Copy Cat.
-Jordy! cut the hair!
[background music and ambience]
[Message alert sounds]
-Wow, so many hair messages.
Jordy, I really think it's time to cut your hair.
-Ho, Ho, Lorenzo! I don't care what the people say,
I'm not cutting my hair.
They can jingle my bells!
[Cinecom's intro music]
Hey folks, Jordy here for cinecom.net and welcome to Copy Cat Friday,
the series where we get inspired by a music video or film and recreate one effect from it.
Eminem recently came out with his new music video 'Fall',
in which you can see many great effects,
and one of them are these notifications, which are popping up everywhere.
So let's jump into the Copy Cat mobile and receive some hate comments!
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So, Lorenzo is back, he's filming right now,
and we've got Kim to help us out in this wonderful evening,
so, let's jump into the Copy Cat reveal and film some stuff!
[Hip-Hop Music]
-Lorenzo, your trunk is way too small.
Well, if you would afford me a bigger pay raise, I could afford a bigger trunk.
-So, we just tried our first shot, let's go see upstairs if it works.
And it works, that is a good thing.
Now we are sure that we don't have to come back tomorrow, because that is also not possible,
because today's Thursday, tomorrow is Friday, so that means we don't have a second chance,
we don't have a second evening.
I'm gonna stop yapping now and let's continue.
[Music]
-Interrupt, guys! We've got all the shots that we need,
so let's go inside right now,
and go into After Effects!
While you're making your shots, it's very important to look for structure.
Although we are shooting on evening, I'm paying attention that we shoot under a street light,
or making sure that the head lights from the car create a deep enough contrast on the street.
Let's start with that message popup.
Create a new composition, next go into the Rounded Rectangle tool
and simply draw a message bubble shape.
You can make this pretty big and take up the entire composition.
This will create a new shape layer and if you open up its properties,
you'll find under the Rectangle Path
that there's an option to change the roundness of the corners, if you wanna do that.
We're going to give some more depth to the bubble,
so I'm going to add the 4-color gradient effect to it.
For starters, I'm going to position the color points from this effect
to have each point sit on a side.
Then go into the color options and change the upper color to light blue.
The points on the side can have some of the same colors.
I am picking these one manually each time, so that there's still a little bit of a difference
between them to make it seem more random.
And then the bottom color becomes white. And this will give some more depth to that shape.
Then go ahead and add some text in here.
Usually, the name of the app sits on top,
the message itself is bigger and sits below the title,
And in the corner right you get the time of the notification, which is 'now'.
On Google you can find the app icon, like the Youtube logo.
Simply import that into After Effects as well
and position it next to the title name.
And that's the only thing there is to it.
Now let's create a whole new composition for our actual shot.
In order to make the message bubble float in the air, like it's part of the scene,
we're going to have to find out the exact movement
that my camera did while I was filming.
Every little shake, the smallest bump,
every tilt and every pan has to be figured out.
And guess what, we were filming outside of a riding vehicle.
This is going to be a ton of work...
...for After Effects.
For us it's just a simple matter of going up to the menu,
select Window, choose Tracker and click on Track Camera.
Yeah, that's it! You just let After Effects work and you can go get a coffee.
And as you return, After Effects did its work.
If you go into the effects controls, you will find out
that the 3D Camera Tracker effect has been applied to it.
If you click on it, it will show all of its tracking points.
We can use any of those points to tell where our message bubble has to open up.
For example, here on the street. Right click on that point
and choose Create Null and Camera.
What we've just done is created a virtual camera
that represents the movement of our actual physical camera.
The null object doesn't do anything, but...
…we’re just going to use it to mark the position of the point that we've just chosen.
We can now go ahead and insert the composition of the message bubble
that we've created prior into the new composition.
From the layer options, make sure to enable 3D.
You can then go ahead and open up the properties of the null object,
select Transform and hit control C, or command C for the mac users,
to copy all of those values.
With the message bubble selected, hit control V or command V to paste those attributes.
It also changed its opacity to zero, so...
hit T to bring that up and change it back to 100.
That message bubble now sits perfectly in place on the point that we've selected prior.
And this gives you a reference.
You can now go ahead and start moving that bubble to a different place
or rotate it to your desire.
The message pops open, so what I'm gonna do is dive into the Scale property,
change it to zero, enable Animation, move forward in time
and increase it back to the size that you want it to be.
Make sure that the animation is short and that you enable the motion blur.
You can do so by first enabling it through this button from the layer properties,
and then enabling it globally through this button in the composition.
The message bubble should look like a glass panel, so...
...behind it there should be some blurriness.
To do that we're going to duplicate our normal shot,
you can do so by hitting control or command D.
On this duplication, you can already apply the Gaussian Blur effect
and increase it to around 20 or 30.
The whole shot is blurred, so we're going to have to say
to only have this blurriness behind the message box.
To do that, also duplicate the message box
and add a Fill effect to the one on the bottom.
Change the color from the Fill effect to white.
When I disable the top message box, you will see that we end up with a white mask,
and that represents the exact size and all of its animations from the original.
So the only thing that we have to do now
is move the blurred shot underneath that white mask.
Then change the track matte from the layer options to Alpha.
You can now enable the top layer back and decrease its opacity to around 50%.
For the final touch, you could also add a glow effect to the bubble to make it give lights.
And you can also add a noise effect to it to make it seem more like a display.
[Cinecom's ending music]
Thank you all so much for watching, thank you Videoblocks for the support again.
And like always:
Stay Creative!
-I am exhausted!
I've been working all day for 12 hours
and I work with children, so I'm really tired,
and now Jordy need me to help him also... I am such a good girlfriend!
Oh!
I also work with children!
-Hey!