Lil Nas X - "Panini" FULL TUTORIAL & BREAKDOWN | Adobe Premiere, After Effects, C4D

[Music] yo what's going on guys back again today with another one little nas Xfinity the effects breakdown tutorial whatever you want to call it if you guys are new here I'm a director and editor my name is max let's go ahead and get right into it guys as always leave a like comment subscribe if you do enjoy the content so quickly before we actually start watching the video I just want to point out they did a great job crediting everyone involved with this that sometimes rare for large labels to do this so it's nice to see and it can actually give us some good insights into how the video was made so directed by Mike diva story by lil nods starring Skye Jackson I'm pretty sure from Disney Channel production company Lord danger this is the same production company that did that little skies and young pinch nightmares music video I really like that one a lot it's pretty sure Mike diva directed that one as well so you have some nice production you have some nice directing now I also want to point out we have our motion capture cuts here we'll talk a little bit about that later on I also want to say that in the VFX artist 3d artists you'll see all the people that are involved with something like this you have to compositors you have a lot of graphic artists working on the titles and maybe some of the HUD elements that we're in this you have your VFX artists your 3d artists your editors we're just sequencing in terms of VFX artists this name sticks out to me octane Jesus or David Ayer you it's my first watch of this music video I was already going to point you guys to a tutorial David Ayer you I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing that right already has on YouTube so if you go to the I design YouTube channel there's a bunch of really awesome 3d tutorials and a lot of them are hosted by the guy who worked on this so so we'll talk about this tutorial he made later but for now let's start here we'll talk about it more as we go along so let's play this out so the first initial thing that I like about this and this is the reason why I'm excited to break this down is the whole overall vibe of this they're going for this ghost in the shell' kind of visually striking futuristic vibe which I really like a lot I think there's so much you can do with it I've always loved things that look like this this cool futuristic vibe and as a visual effects artist or as an editor as a director coming up with the concepts you have so much to work with and so much you can go around to really create a striking visual like this so some of the elements we're going to be talking about and we're also gonna be sure onew later on like I said the effects where you can recreate some of this yourself just the basics of creating some hologram stuff being able to track it to the walls most of this music video was shot in a green screen studio so where you see her sitting here just looking out towards this kind of cityscape this is all in 3d and we're gonna talk about creating that 3d city later on throughout the tutorial but I'm sky Jackson actually posted this nice little behind-the-scenes vlog and it gives us a good look into what the set was like so here's basically what that looks like where you have the ledge who have your lighting matching you have this kind of soft reflection going onto her face and then you have your green screen with these little track X's here we'll talk more about that later but just giving you a rough idea of what it's like to work with the green screen compositing the affects all the before-mentioned names that worked on this and how it can coincide in the workflow now not only am I going to show you a lot of the hologram stuff I want to show you kind of this 3d rotating text I'll show you like the textured kind of digital looks that's going on here I also want to mention some cool things like the little animation going on here this outline animation there's gonna be a lot of really cool tips and tricks later on in the tutorial section so I'm excited for that there's so much like I said you can go through now this itself isn't 3d there's of course 3d tracking adding in these 3d elements but going back to the vlog that I was talking about that shows the behind the scenes you'll see that I'm pretty sure the only in real life sets are the streets and the airplane scene which is going to come a little bit later so I'm gonna turn the volume up for this and this is probably one of my favorite parts about this video one thing that I think they did very right with the editing and just the overall idea so the beat drops in the song translate very well into the video and that's one thing that can really take your videos to the next level being able to edit to the music and keep the music in mind when you're creating a visual like this when you have that beat shop for the first line of the song the first initial intro pops up we have a lot of this cool particle stuff like I said we'll cover all that later on and another thing that I want to mention that we're gonna talk about later on in Adobe Premiere even some of these subtle hammer shakes that help put you in the moment I'll play that back one more time just you can see but like I said editing to the music matching that camera movement so some cool stuff going on here some 3d track and green screen studio performance things we'll talk a little bit about this this glitching there's mixture is a pixel sort you can do stuff with the car dance effect and after effects I talked about ghost in the shell' before anime from the 80s also Akira did this very well with this kind of futuristic holograms everywhere type of look now here's a large part in the song there's two main things that I want to talk about in this segment because it's a large segment with the song so first off you have these dancing robots which are matching his movement completely now the way that you're able to do that is using a motion capture suit and what a motion capture suit basically does it allows you to track any kind of movement that you're doing take that tracking information and place it in your computer in your 3d software and then you can apply that tracking that movement any kind of 3d element character that you like like for example this robot so he's able to wear a motion capture suit on set in the green screen studio they can capture that motion capture data and then they can have all these people dancing behind them as robots it's pretty cool if you guys follow corridor corridor digital they do a lot of stuff with the motion capture suits a lot of great tutorials there so any relevant links to that would be in the description the second thing I want to mention with this segment and it's another thing they do great I mentioned it a little bit earlier but the camera shakes the camera shakes are really great as you see whenever they're going through those movements you have this really mechanical locked on camera changes that matches along with the sound design the robots behind them the beat so it's pulled off very well and I'm gonna talk a little bit later on about artificial ways you can use camera shakes with an Adobe Premiere just using some keyframes I'm also going to talk about some ways you can do it in camera like setting your camera up on a tripod having a high shutter speed there's a lot of things you can do to create this kind of cool look that matches along with the choreography and the dancing and even here whenever he does the little fist bumps towards the camera you see you have some little keyframes just kind of changing around the scale I have presets like that on my website but subtle things like that we can do in Adobe Premiere where even if you're not a VFX wizard you don't want to get into the crazy stuff you're still able to take that away to help with the editing and the music so the plane scene here we got some cool little 3d tracking going on to there so that's pretty interesting but the main focus of this is going through the window so you get a nice little zoom effect going on and for all we know this could actually be two different compositions where they basically just have the window cut out and then him with the plane of course filmed in a green screen studio for basically all the parts where he's doing anything so pretty cool transition her closing the window actually thought that was pretty cool visually and then of course all these ads pop up here we move along more dancing I think she eventually jumps out the plane something like that this is some cool camera movement part here it's nice that they're able to mix in these different mediums of these kind of backed away shots of showing an environment and then of course mixing in this kind of hectic in-your-face kind of camera movement as you'll see you'll see her reaction and then the camera will swivel to show you what she's reacting to so just some great camera movement overall jumps out of the plane kind of reminds me of that Travis Scott music video so Yosemite they did something very similar where we have some stuff with the plane and then I think eventually jumps out of the plane to show you some behind the scenes to give you a better understanding of how a VFX artist could create something like this where they're flying through the sky let's go ahead and check out the BTS again from this so shout out to her for creating this vlog we get a lot of cool insight as to the production behind it but check it out so here is the parts you have her hooked up to these cables at the top now the reason why they had this light flashing here they already planned out beforehand that it was going to be this kind of stormy background environment so being able to create this light flashing like this they're able to actually create lightning strikes and match the lighting in the environment so when you're on set when you're trying to do this crazy green screen stuff be sure to match the environment as best as you can you'll see that they have all these little crosses around all of these green-screen parts the reason why they have these little markers in crosses you'll see there's X's here crosses here this is just giving the VFX artist a little landmark to place any kind of motion tracker onto if you had this normal green background yes you could just key it out but if you're trying to actually play something in a specific area you can use the motion tracking place it on one of these little X's and it just helps a lot in terms of finding something to lock on to for any kind of flying floating parts we have him connected here as well so back to the video we're gonna try and wrap this up and get to the nitty-gritty the tutorial part of this like I said talking about the floating part that rigged that we just saw in the vlog could correspond to this where you get that nice camera angle of him literally just floating in air so we'll go over a bunch of different glitching effects that you guys can create right at home this part is also very cool too and I want to speak on this so at the very end he kind of changes all those little advertisement things to all this cool digital artwork of these trees growing and there's a lot of different ways where you can create some cool tree growing animations within 3d softwares I want to show you that touch on that give you some step-by-step guides and even just point you out to more directions where you could create something like this let's go ahead and hop into Adobe Premiere then we're gonna go to After Effects cinema 4d show you guys some really cool stuff which you can create right now at home alright so let's start off with the basics and then we'll work our way up to some of the more complex 3d things so let's talk a little bit about the camera movement some of the shake transitions some of the things that kind of add that extra oomph into the visual matching with the song and like I said this is extremely important editing to the music matching things to the music really helps you create an amazing final product so just some basics we have two Clips here I created all this an element 3d but it's basically just going to be placeholder Clips for showing you guys some little shake transitions so there's a few ways we can do this let's place our cursor between our two Clips here I'm gonna hold shift on my keyboard and just click the left arrow key twice twice ctrl K to make a cut and then shift right arrow key to go back and then still holding shift use your right arrow key to move to the right twice ctrl K to cut we can select this area here these two little sub clips or we want to create a transition we can right click and we can click nest and this is just going to pre compose these clips into their own little sub clips so now they're together instead of one so now if I select that and I change anything in the effect controls here in the top left the entire area is going to be affected by what we do now there's a lot of easy ways to do this there's a lot of shake presets it's probably one of the most common presets you can find out on the internet if you do need any presets for your videos my website actually has a bunch of them they're tailored specifically for the types of tutorials that I create so if you're interested you can check that out of course there's a bunch of other third-party ones I have a bunch of stuff in here so I can just look up shake and you'll see cut shake in so there's presets out there if you want to invest in that to save yourself some time if not you can create your own little shake presets the way to do that let's position our cursor between here right where our right where our footage switches to the next shot and we can actually just create some keyframes so let's just key frame both our position in our scale and maybe people just drag the position to the left will drag the scale up it may be frame by frame we can just kind of move this back and forth something like this as we play that out you'll see you get this crazy kind of jittering shake now of course if you don't want this to be as jittery you can just kind of space these out you can space these key frames out the closer together they are the more tight and jittery it's gonna be the more spaced out the more it'll be kind of rocking like that so just using your effect controls using key framing using your emotion controls here you can easily create some sort of shakes anything you really need to match the music now of course it's gonna look completely flat and just not really matching here because I'm not matching with music the key is to match with the music so that's the whole point it's not about the technique you use to get the job done it's really about matching music matching the visual for example for example when we get the fist bumps here in the dance what do you see you see this you see the screen kind of bump with the actual dance with the visual with the music let's create something like that and I have a preset of course for this as well I'll show you how to do it it's super easy it's just there to save time so if you have the effects pack one I have something called bump and it's literally just preset keyframes which you can apply here place them together wherever you'd like the effect to happen so maybe like that and you'll see it just kind of pops at your face just like that so if there's a beat drop you can play something like these motion keyframes here literally just scaling up from a hundred scale to a hundred twenty and then back to a hundred simple as that alright so a lot of you probably knew how to do that already but I just want to really laser it into your brain make sure you guys are keeping the music in mind and matching the music to the visual that's a huge part of it and that's what really made a lot of those dancing scenes and a lot of the other things flow as well as they did now let's get into another very important part of creating something like this creating a look like this and that's the city creating the city creating the holographics afterwards after the fact and then matching those two together to get that augmented reality look anyways you can make a 3d city I mean you can do it in element 3d I've made tons of tutorials talking about that check out the description there's a link below now there's also a way you can create a more detailed 3d city and that is with 3d software's I use octane render for this as well as the actual building models you can go on a free 3d website and find some free futuristic building models for example literally just pop into Google get that Google search and there you go you have free 3d sketchfab turbosquid pop in here search for something if you're using element 3d you want an obj or a c4d file it'll stay there if you're using something like blender then look for maybe an FBX or a blender project file whatever 3d software you're using find the corresponding file on that matches that and if you guys are new to 3d it's really not that complicated first thing to do is find what 3d software you want if you want something free go with blender I'm gonna use cinema 4d I actually created this exact scene here this city using a tutorial by the guy who worked on the panini video which is a huge coincidence because I was going to show this as an example before I read the description and figured out he worked on it so smart move hiring him on their part because he's already shown that he can create some cool futuristic cities through this tutorial I know he has one ghost in the shell' effect tutorial as well so I don't think there's any point in me literally just repeating his words so follow that tutorial if you want the step by step for the city follow my element 3d tutorials if you want to start a little bit at the beginner stage so I'm gonna assume that you've already made the city that you want and you want to start tracking these cool holographic elements onto it just like in the opinion panini music video or maybe you don't have a city maybe don't do any 3d stuff but you still want to know how to create these cool holographic effects you can track them into normal footage let's hop in After Effects we're gonna use a clean plate of this city shot that I have here and we're gonna start compositing stuff on to it alright so let's get into some cool stuff let's work on some of these little glitchy augmented reality effects now normally we would start with just the blank plate of just the city here without any of this craziness added in unfortunately I my old hard drive which had all the project files for this all the renders for this so I only have the final product from Dropbox so it's fine we can still motion track and just keep adding onto this but we got some cool stuff already we got some jellyfish we got some other cool things popping out we got some text on the walls let's go over how we can track this add the elements add the hologram I'll add the hologram look and then add the after touches like them popping in and out some outline stuff some cool tech stuff starting with the motion tracking if you're doing this with a city the motion track should be a breeze because with the city there's a lot of edges to grab onto right-click on your footage you go to track and stabilize and you go to track camera now this is gonna analyze it after effects will do its thing and hopefully we get a nice clean track out of that while that's doing this I just want to shoot off some quick little tips that will help you on set you want to have nice smooth footage to be able to track this correctly so that you don't have any glitching with your 3d elements make sure there's not a lot of motion blur in your shots make sure you turn your shutter speed up to get that kind of nice crispness having motion blur would kind of mess up being able to track on his specific parts also putting X's with tape track marks dots anything that you can use to give you a placeholder for the track will help as well if you are using real-life footage or anything like a close-up of a face hand for CGI alright guys so once your camera track goes through you can go ahead and just select your clip go up to your effect controls you can click on your 3d camera tracker and you'll see all these super cool little 3d track points as we go along here so step number one what you want to do is scroll to the video and find a place where you could place an element so I'm gonna go ahead and let's go ahead so let's go ahead and maybe place something on the right side of this dome here so use this cursor you can go ahead and right click once you found a good spot you want to place your element and you can click create solid and camera all right so once you have your solid in the place that you'd like you can scroll through and see if the track is doing okay now we're just going to replace this solid with our elements and you can use a 2d element a 3d element I'll even show you how to kind of extrude a 2d elements so it looks like a 3d element so let's get right into that so first off go ahead and right click on your track solid and you're going to once you pre-compose it and you can name this whatever if you already know what element you want to place here you can label it as that I'll just name this hologram one and click okay and now we can double click and go into our pre-comp and we can delete the track solid out of there so essentially what we have now is a composition that is a that is a placeholder in that tracking area that we selected so I'll check out the music video as some inspiration I'm gonna maybe add one of these little cowboy hat emojis so I found this one on the internet just make sure you check out the licensing and what it says for that we're just gonna be using this for educational purposes it says free license of course you can also go through if you are doing it 3d you can just search for a 3d model and use element cinema 4d whatever you want so we'll start with this or any other green screen clip on the Internet just find it download it pop back in the after effects I'm gonna drag this cowboy hat emoji animation into our project here so I'll just drag it into our layer of course this of course is in our hologram composition that we made with the track solid so you'll see here it is all tracked in let's pop back into the con so first things first we want to get rid of this black background let's scale this up to size and I'm just gonna look up a simple little color key there's a lot of different ways you can get rid of a black background you can change blending mode you can unmount it color Keys fine for now just drop it on your clip select the black in the background and then just bump up the color tolerance like this and then you can also add a tiny bit of edge feather great so we have our cowboy hat emoji so we have our cowboy hat emoji animation this is pretty short so I'll click ctrl D just to duplicate this so basically this will just be a looped clip as I play it you'll see it'll just start back with the animation now let's go back into our composition here now like I said this is 2d so we can actually open up our transform options here you can mess around with your rotation your orientation try and get this to look however you like I'm gonna scale this down cuz it's pretty big for now and that's looking pretty good say you want to make this 2d image look a little bit more 3d there is a way we can do that so let's pop into our hologram comp here and what we're gonna do is I'm actually going to select all of these right-click precompose so now the loop is all just in one layer we have it all right here now with this layer what we want to do is let's go ahead and click toggle switches and modes and we're gonna make that into a 3d layer by just checking this box change your custom view to fronts active camera for now open up your transform options for this layer go to transform you're gonna see your position value here you can actually right click on that and just click separate dimensions and then you'll see now you have your x y&z which we can change which we can change individually instead of in one meter so we just want to change our Z position you're going to hold down alt click on the stopwatch next to Z position the numbers will turn red we just want to write index in this expression here and that's all we need to do so now we can select this layer we're gonna apply a levels color correction onto here and just make a little bit darker I'll just put the input blacks up maybe just move this in and you'll see while we're doing this later now select this layer can trick click ctrl D just to duplicate it a few times so I controlled eed four times and the reason why we're doing this if we take our active camera so maybe change that to custom d1 you can even right click down here go to new go to camera ok and you can use the C key on your keyboard to actually toggle through and see what this is looking like we're gonna select all these duplications and just keep clicking ctrl D so it's duplicate it and you'll see it's kind of extruding backwards so control D control D control D it's growing back every single time we do that and it's looking actually pretty decent as we do that as well so if you click see you rotate here's what it looks like now we have this 2d layer into its own little 3d comp you can even select all these duplications here just hold shift ctrl D just make sure you don't crash your after effects you might want to save and there we go we have our own little 3d extrusion so that's just a little bonus tip for you guys let's click file save for a camera for a camera here you're gonna want to go back to active camera you can just turn the camera off you can also just hold down shift select all these layers right-click pre-compose them into one just name this 3d cowboy emoji click OK and then you can just pop back into your main composition where we have this to get the 3d layers to show up that we just did in here you can just click this little Sun star collapse transformation switch just click toggle switches and modes if you don't see that go ahead and click that and you'll now see our extrusion so that's how you can make a 2d layer 3d if you'd like I'm gonna scale this down so click S on your keyboard drop that a bit now we actually want to apply the hologram look onto this so there's a few ways you can do it there's the plug-in way or we can make it from scratch I'm gonna show you both fully the best plugin for creating a hologram look is holomatrix by red giant link to that will be below so if we go ahead and just pop holomatrix onto our composition here see it automatically applies the default preset so you get some flashing glitching RGB gives it that nice kind of bluish hue we're gonna go ahead and customize this and like I said afterwards we'll show you from scratch so so those of you who don't want to spend the money for this you know how to do it from scratch it's pretty simple it's pretty basic and easy but first off what you want to do is let's actually open this up and just drop the opacity a bit you don't want to have this fully you want to have this a tiny bit see-through so you really get that hologram effect so something around 60 70 it really depends on the clip and you have full control of what you want this to do so there's ghosting RGB you can use your FET controls for the layer up here maybe you want more damage maybe you want whatever this does punch it affect scale unmold you can open up effects and literally have you have your switches for every single thing going on here glow scan lines maybe you don't want those you can add a flicker just by checking that so like I said you have a bunch that you can really do you can add glitch you can even go up here and click choose preset and they have a bunch of little presets which you can hover over and select so you have a lot that you can use to customize and create a lot of cool different glitches so I'll maybe put it on this preset and you'll see this will change the color back to normal now say you don't have the holomatrix plugin let's go ahead and do this from scratch we're gonna go up and just delete holomatrix delete color balance start from normal so you still want to do the first step we still want to lower our opacity hasti so we open up our transform options we'll still have that lower it'll be a little bit easier to see what this is looking like if we add some color so let's go up to curves drop that on to our clip we're gonna go over to the blue channel and we'll just bump that up or of course whatever color you're really going for and there we go I mixed together curves with our color balance I got a cool little mix of some different colors that may work well I'm actually even going to lower the opacity even a bit more maybe to something like 44% now some other cool adjustments to make this more hologram ish we can go ahead and just add a glow effect of course you can use third party you can use third party you can use preset you can use built-in there is a built-in glow for After Effects so drop it on there you may want to grab your radius your threshold and mess around with that depending on the clip so I'll raise the radius a bit so it's kind of glowing off of this and I'll also mess around with our threshold to get a nice in-between we can also create some cool little opacity animations so say you want this to flicker a bit what we can do is we can go down to our transform again and where it says opacity we can actually select to keyframe that and then using page down and page up on your keyboard you can move frame by frame so I'll maybe move by three frames I'll put that at zero and then I'll move to and I'll put that back at 44 move a few put it at zero move a few put it back at 44 and you can do that you can customize however you can customize your animations however you like but if we play that through now we kind of have this flickering in and out now you'll see we have this kind of flickering going on with our elements if you wanted to not be so kind of slow of course you can push these together and it'll be more like a strobe some other things you can do to boost up the look you can look up a little mosaic effect and we can drop that on here and this is a really cool one now this is going to just look like normal blocks and there's a lot you can do with this in particular you can have a kind of glitch in you can have it glitch out using the mosaic or you can just grab horizontal and vertical blocks bump that up and just kind of make it look glitchy to begin with so now you'll see we kind of have this like a big pixel look going on we're gonna keyframe both the horizontal and the vertical for mosaic and our effect controls and we'll put that super low so we want it to like really glitch in I'll maybe put this at 50 and I'll put the other one at 100 that looks okay page down and page up to move frame by frame bump up your vertical and your horizontal values just like this here's what that would look like starts off being pixelated and it'll kind of just go into focus such as this pretty cool you maybe even lowered a lot more with our key frames still intact here and here's what that looks like that's pretty cool so it almost looks like a pixel blur and then it'll kind of just pop back into normal and then there you go so that's how we can really get that cool technology esque type of look for it right so we made our basic design for our hologram now we want to kind of pimp it out with some of these cool little graphic overlays we have here and then we're gonna get into the glitchy stuff there's a few ways you can do this you can find some overlay packs online and you can kind of just mix everything together so for this one I actually so for these little overlays these little flashes I actually use an overlay pack from Eduard off I think it's one of his only paid products that he puts out so great way to support an awesome crater if you don't know Eduard obvious he does some he does some cool glitchy Instagram stuff a lot of cool 3d things check him out on Instagram you won't you won't regret it some cool things and it gives you a lot of handmade shape layer animations which you can use so one of my main tips for you guys is always have a bunch of different folders libraries of elements which you can use for your videos so I'm gonna bring in some things that I have that I've just found across the internet if you guys want or just check out my website we have a free green screen pack as well as a bunch of other resources anything that I use here I'll try and link in the description as well I have some cool little glitch overlays here that we can use just google glitch overlay pack on the internet you can find a bunch of different options so once you've found your assets or you created your own using shape layers and animation you can go ahead and just browse through him drag him into the composition we're just gonna mix that together with what we already have and once we add all of this in what we're gonna do is we're gonna move into some more complicated animation using the same methods that just showed you and then we're just gonna keep working down the line and then I'm just gonna show you a bunch of different glitching tricks as a whole then at the end we'll get into some more 3d heavy stuff so we have our overlay element here first steps first click toggle switches and modes make that a 3d layer you can even click on your hologram layer here find the Z position so click open your position you can just click ctrl C and then you can actually just paste that for your element here as well open up your transform control V to paste that so now this will basically be lined up so now this will have the same z-depth so this is the back and forth depth in 3d space as our little cowboy hat emoji here and we can just use these values so you place it over and it should all line up now if we actually play it through it'll just be over our target as we have it here now let's apply the same steps I showed you to customize and make the emoji a little hologram for our overlays here so we can lower our so we can lower our opacity and you can add anything you want you can rewind and you can do it you can do the hologram from scratch or you can use any presets third-party plugins whatever it is to customize your own look so I'm going to click toggle switches and modes change the blending mode on this to add so it's more like a light I lowered the opacity for this put it down even more do whatever you want customize it however you like just repeat the steps I've already showed you within the video alright so now I'm just gonna fire off a bunch of cool little glitch tricks some cool color tricks a bunch of things that can help you pull this a bunch of things that are going to help you in this process to making cool animated looks after that we're gonna show you some more in-depth animated composites here and then we're gonna get into some more 3d stuff so first off I just want to show you this quickly if you apply the color balance HLS effect to change the hue I know this was originally blue I made it more reddish you can actually keyframe the hue and your effect controls here move along to maybe the end of the timeline and then you can just crank that hue up like crazy now if we go back to the beginning now this is now this ring here is going to be rotating through different colors so that's a cool little animated keyframe look that you guys can go with now another cool little glitchy extrusion thing you can do is you can select whatever layer you want so maybe the hologram one our 3d little cowboy hat here you can click control D just like what we did to kind of extrude it you can grab your z axis here and you can just kind of pull this forward so check it out now it's kind of just extruding from the face of our original one and if we play that you'll see what that really looks like and you may want to actually grab this and maybe move the x-axis over a bit as well but we can and we can pull the z-axis really far away from that now basically this kind of has its clone face kind of extruding away from it so it's pretty cool and like I said we'll let the RAM preview you can even control D to duplicate this and just maybe lower it so it looks like there's some kind of steps going out towards it it's kind of cool though ghosting effect you also want to pay attention to the layers you may want to drag that and place it below and now let's make a little animation where this kind of pops in one by one so what we'll do is we'll click control shift D and we'll make this first one pop in here and then the second one will pop in around here so control shift D to split delete the end part you kind of want to make these little stairs going up this is what it'll look like so you have your normal face and then it'll kind of pop in level by level as you move along so that is a pretty cool one we'll try and scroll through there I've kind of pops in and then you can make them flicker out to lead out whatever you want to do so let's show you how to do some of these glitches we want to create some 3d rotating text I also want to create this little outline tunnel animation here I think that's actually pretty cool one then we'll talk about the glitches so heading back into After Effects okay so to create this cool tracing outline effect there's a few ways we can do this we can do this with a 3d layer or we can do this with a 2d layer now a lot of people they may try and do it with the 3d layer and they may try and auto trace it there's a way you can actually select layer and go up to layer auto trace now if you're doing any kind of masking or using the stroke effect with this you're gonna run into some issues because this is a tracked 3d object so if I did that it can mess up the positioning of this the easiest way to actually do this is we'll select this layer here of this cowboy hat emoji we'll click ctrl D just to duplicate it and I'm gonna right click here and I'll just rename this to outlines like that so that we don't get confused and notice that this is still a three layer here this isn't 2d this is the exact same thing what we're gonna do is we're gonna go up to layer we're gonna go down to layer styles and a lot of you may not know this is here but you have all the layer styles which are available within Photoshop so all of you Photoshop users when you double click on something you want to add a glow you want to add a stroke you can do that within After Effects too by going to layer styles and we'll go ahead and add a stroke now we're gonna have to change some settings here first off so we can actually see what we're doing let's just hide these two layers of the actual hologram and then we want to open up our options here by clicking on the triangle next we're going to go down to stroke and then here we can change everything up so let's change our position from outside to inside and then we're going to change the color to anything you like I'm just gonna go with white so we can actually show you what we're doing next and this is a very important step you're gonna want to go to blending options under layer styles you'll want to open up advanced blending and then you want to change the fill opacity to zero anything that is actually within the stroke here is going to go away so it doesn't matter if it's text it doesn't matter if it's your 3d object here this will go back to zero and we actually lowered the opacity for this layer earlier because we added that hologram effect if you want you can just go back to your transform options and just bump your opacity back up to 100% and you have that you can also select this layer your outlines layer go up to your effect controls and you can take change whatever you'd like it is you want this already has a glow effect so that's fine we'll keep that on there and now we can mix and match this with everything else and you'll notice that this is and you'll notice that this is still tracked in 3d space just like everything else if we actually zoom along here let's show these other two layers let's select our outlines layer and then you can grab your Z position here the blue axes and you can just pull this forward so now you have this kind of ring that's being projected forwards or if you want behind you can drag the z position down and then move the layer down to put it behind like that and of course you guys can add any of the hologram tricks which I showed you earlier onto this if you want to just rewind the video to apply it to the aligns you can do that we're gonna get a little more in depth with it now you can also select your outline layer ctrl D to duplicate it grab the Z position move that back even more move the layer and a layer below as well and if you want you can kind of have these pop in and out at specific time so we'll even do that one more time outlines three you want to have these pop in after a few seconds so the reason why I make this kind of like going down the reason why I made this kind of like steps where we have first one pops in second one pops in third one pops in if you play that animation out it'll look like the lines are kind of moving back in z position so it's pretty cool so to get a little bit more in depth with this line effect as we can see in the original music video this was kind of placed on a billboard and you get something cool like that so let's try and replicate that and we'll give you some more tips and tricks using this kind of 3d outline which i think is a cool effect in itself so what we're gonna do here is we're gonna go ahead and create I actually went ahead and did it before just to experiment we're going to create this little 3d billboard here with a bunch of cool little elements cool little glitches as well as our glitching outline our hologram looks and effects and of course it's gonna be tracked to the side of a building so we can hide that for now we'll start from scratch here we're gonna go ahead and track it on the side of this building so first things first if you want to add a new element into your track scene you go to the very bottom and select your original footage here and then you can select your 3d camera tracker and we're gonna start from scratch so you have your target here your bull's eye you can go ahead and position this wherever you'd like to place your elements so let's try and do let's try and find like a nice orientation for this perspective maybe like that we'll right click and we'll click create solid and it actually created a camera so we can just delete the camera here and we're gonna go ahead and shrink the solid it's a little bit too big and we're gonna go ahead and just scroll through here to make sure that this is actually fully tracked into our scene so it's looking good so far we scroll along here you'll see it's stamped to the side of the building so what you want to do next is you want to right-click on that track solid and you want to precompose it this is a big step make sure you leave all attributes in here you don't want to move all attributes click OK and we can actually name this I'll name this Paulo billboard and now we can go and double click into that composition here and we can go ahead and just delete the track solid and now we can place anything we'd like within this so you guys can go up to composition comp settings maybe you want to give yourself a little bit of room to make this advertisement I'll make the width 1920 so it's 1920 by 1080 so now it's 16 by 9 aspect ratio instead of one by one I'm gonna go ahead and just find a picture of myself to using here you can do whatever you want so they probably just had full photo shoots green screen to use for all these little animations here and what I'll do is I'll just go ahead and click G or I'll grab my pencil up here and I'm just gonna go ahead and cut around here so I have an outline I'm just going to cut myself out from the background here so I can fully design so that I can fully this ad however I would like alright guys so we have our mask here if we select our layer and click em you'll see this is put on ad so it's just keeping me away from the background what we want to do here is we're gonna repeat our steps with the 3d layer object except now it's just for a 2d tracked object so if we go back to our comp here you'll see if we go to the building where I selected the track solid it's just a little picture of me floating on the building and of course we're gonna go back and we'll add all of our hologram effects onto that first let's add that outline animation onto here so double click back on our hollow billboard composition start around the four second mark here because that's when we can clearly see this in our actual comp around four seconds here so click ctrl D you're gonna want to grab this duplication let's first rename it i'll make this call to outlines and we'll just click and drag this so that it starts around the four second mark so our animation for this kind of tunnel will start around four seconds and we're gonna do the same thing we're gonna go up to layer we're gonna go to layer styles and then stroke and then we're gonna go to blending options in our stroke here we're gonna go to advanced and make the fill opacity zero so now we have a layer here with just the outline of meat and then we of course have meat and then of course we just have me so we'll go back we'll open our options here we'll open our layer style options we'll go down to the actual fill options here so go to stroke go to your color we'll make this light blue like in the music video if you want to use it for reference here's what it looks like I'll move frame by frame so it's kind of just 2d of course you can even photoshop a hand if you want to make this exact thing isolated with a mask and then keyframe it if you want to kind of have this simple movement of course you could just take a video on a green-screen of you doing whatever and still use the same steps it'll work fine so at four seconds we have our first overlay here I'm even gonna I'm even gonna go to my effects and presets and just look up a simple little glow you can click and drag that onto your outlines go down to our blending or layer styles and our stroke here let's change that position from outside to inside and that will just clean it up a bit it won't look as blown out now we can go up to our glow we can increase the glow threshold that was Hardison is to say by the way and then we can bump up the glow radius so it's kind of just softer like that and then if you want maybe you can lower that a bit it's up to you how you want to customize the ring now select outlines we're gonna use page up and page down on our keyboard so find those keys on your keyboard click page down four times to move over four frames one two three four and then using ctrl alt and our mouse wheel we can just zoom in here select outlines ctrl D to duplicate so now we have outlines to click and drag so it starts here so now what we can do is click s to scale it up and we could just bump it up like that or if you want to go into the whole 3d object way to do it this is to deep image so it doesn't matter but you could make this a 3d layer by clicking toggle switches and mode by clicking toggle switches and modes make sure that's checked and then you can actually go into the transform and change the Z position but this is a 2d layer so it's pretty much the same exact thing so I'll just click s on the layer and I'll just scale it up you'll see that this is actually overlaying me so just grab over so just grab outlines too and place it in a layer below everything so now it's kind of behind everything now we can place this where we want its ctrl D to duplicate that again using page down on your keyboard one two three four grab outlines three and start it there and then click s scale that up some more so you'll see the pattern we're doing here we just repeated our steps if we drag back here is the animation we're making bam-bam-bam like that so check it out now we have this cool little 3d tunnel outline thing going on here so in our actual lil NAS music video these weren't just kind of little lines that popped up they kind of had this like holographic glitchyness to them as you see so an effect that's really going to be helpful here and you could use this for recreating a huge amount of all the glitches that are in this music video like here where there's all this channel glitching pixel sorting if you don't know any of these words this is pixel sorting here channel glitching kind of looks like this a little bit any kind of that glitching there's a great plugin I actually made a full video on one it's called glitch fi I think it's a great kind of all-in-one it's I think it's a great little all-in-one plug-in not promoted it's just what I use personally of course there's tons of other options on the internet just look up on Google or you YouTube glitch plug-in glitch effect glitch preset you're gonna find so much info on how to really glitch things but this plug-in specifically so what I'll do is I'll hold down control my keyboard I'm gonna click and select all of my outline layers and then right-click and then pre compose them and I'll just name this outlines comp and before I do that actually messed up control Z I'm gonna select them all but the top because I only want to do the ones that are behind me so pre comp them outlines comp click OK and now this is still a layer below so it still looks the same so what I want to do is I want to create some glitches right when it's about to kind of end so around this area here so I'm gonna click ctrl shift D at that area where I want the glitches to start I'm gonna bring in this glitch fi plugin it's called glitch if I link will be below and this thing it basically has everything in here it has you have your channel glitches your color glitches your image glitches compression there's pixel sorting in here so you can do a lot and to kind of show it better it's kind of hard to see what it can really do on these lines either check out the full tutorial I made on it or I'll just apply it onto this 2d image of me and you'll see all of what can really do so this is with everything checked on and we can change some of these off so let's maybe take off the transfer let's maybe turn off the image glitch like that and then we'll also turn off this channel glitch but now you're really just kind of left with this image glitch here where you kind of have these things kind of chopping around so there's a lot you can do with it if you want to have that pixel Street if you want to have pixel sorting you see this pixel stretch here just kind of drag that out and now you'll have some pixel sorting going on like in the original little nods video during on vertical sort if you want the pixel sorting to go up and down like that and there's a bunch more you can do with this so I'll let you guys experiment with whatever plug-in you're using for yourselves so let's grab a glitter file and place it on the split layer here this is where I want it to start glitching out and I don't like I don't really like these duplications here so I'll turn off color glitch so that's looking cool let's head back into our comp and our outline glitch is pretty much set now what we really need now what we really need to do is just kind of make this look more like a billboard a hologram billboard just my head floating on a building so double click into this comp and we have all this gray space in the back here to really design this which is cool so you can right-click here go to new go to solid and I kind of just made like this darker lighter purple color and you can just drag that to the very back if you really want to have like a background go back and look at the actual billboard they have so when they designed their city they kinda have like a frame for it but essentially background colors kind of the same so what we need now is we need some little HUD overlay things and there's a few things we can do with this top in After Effects now what you really need to do is go on the internet and find there's so many different resources what you can use in this instance there's HUD packs which you can find free or paid there is glitch packs where you can find these little clips there's these mega glitch packs which I found here I'll try and leave links to as many of these things I'm showing you as possible as many as the ones that I use but essentially but essentially all this is just a Google search way just glitch pack overlay pack HUD element pack if you want to save money look for free versions but you guys need to essentially if you're really getting into the video editing if you want to make some cool stuff like this what you need to do is you need to get a folder on your computer mine is just called overlays and elements I pinned it up here so I can always pop into it and just save all this stuff for the future make sure you're investing in this it's a big part of being able to create this or of course like I said you can check out that Edward of you can check out that Edward off tutorial he goes into creating some of these elements yourself as well as he has his own pack if you want to use some from there so here's just some little 3d elements from Edward off there's also this mega glitch pack which I got from videohive and then this is from rocket stock HUD interface graphic elements and this has like over like hundreds of different hot elements so that's cool for like graphs and things like that move it to the bottom so that it is behind everything we can click toggle switches and modes and we can change it these different blending modes so maybe put it on-screen now just get creative with it mix and match I'm gonna go ahead and apply just a bunch of these different things so let's go into my mega glitch pack let's grab a few of these glitch transition Clips here I'll maybe hold ctrl and just drag in three but here's what that is looking like we'll play it out and of course it's gonna be a little glitchy because we have a ram preview but so we have a kind of cool little holographic background going on we need some more elements in here so I talked about this this was actually a this was actually video but I wholeheartedly believe it I'll leave a link below it's this giant toko graphics pack it gives you 1500 different elements and this will give you so much you can work with it gives you shape elements social media stuff shaped lines so some cool things here I'll just go ahead and click and it just places in the composition and this isn't part of any ad I'm not trying to sell you anything I'm just genuinely talking about things that I would use to create something like this so now we have a little follow meter of course you guys can create from this from scratch just look up tutorials on how to create it from scratch but if I went into creating every single little bit from scratch this could be like a 12 hour video so if you want to save the money look up things from scratch or just try and find free overlay packs even have some little cool interface icons from the toko pack you guys can really have fun with it really apply your own creativity to it you don't have to just copy what you're seeing there's so much room for this in terms of 3d glitching After Effects tracking there's so much you can really put into this so the thing that will wrap this all together is going to be some HUD elements and like I said you can look them up for a free version you can look up paid versions they're all over the internet so what I'm gonna do is I'll go back to project here and I'll import the one that I have from my overlays and elements pack it's a pretty big one so it may take a bit to load but basically you want to find the After Effects interface project drag it into your project here alright so this is in now we're in business we can open that up and look you got folders of circles graphs frames extras keyboards there's some cool other little things in here so let's go ahead and add in one of these like little bar graphs here that they have so hop into After Effects and of course like I said in my HUD pack there are some graphs here and this one looks fine scale this in and then this is an important step you're gonna want to go to effects and presets go to curves and we're gonna go ahead and just kind of color correct this graph will make it a bit brighter here it's not looking as good now because it's on third quality and because I'm stacking so much in this comp that Mary on my computer is gonna start lagging a bit well so let's hop back into our main linked composition and we'll see what this is starting to look like so it's looking pretty cool for now now here's how we can wrap this all together now we need to go back in the video and we need to repeat the steps which I showed you earlier on creating that hologram look so we're gonna so you can go back you can use the tips showed you four I'm just kind of making it the manual way or if you had the holomatrix plug-in of course you can just apply it on to our billboard here and we can grab a preset up here to actually make this look I don't want it as blue and grainy I'm gonna go for maybe sort of slightly glitchy something that's not too crazy maybe like this old bad TV I'll open up my transform options as well and I'll just lower the opacity a bit now we officially have this kind of hologram screen going on all right so I showed you that now if you want like I said with that HUD element pack you can rewind the video with that HUD element pack you can rewind the video and follow the steps for just compositing in things with that 3d camera tracker to basically litter your environment whatever it is you're tracking in with elements like this like the arrows this is probably just dragged in from a HUD pack and that's what really helps the environment a huge amount all right guys so now let me show you how we can create this 3d rotating text and this is a really cool thing you can do with these holographic ads so let's get right into this and it's actually a lot more simple than you may think we don't need to do anything crazy with 3d let's hop into After Effects here and you see I've been working on some stuff with the ad that I was just showing you we'll get into that a little bit later I'm gonna pop into my hologram billboard composition that we've been working on here that we just showed you all the steps for and you'll see here's what this 3d text is looking like you'll see here is what this 3d text is looking like I just copied what they had in the original video and made the text say the world is yours and you can see it rotates around my body first thing you want to do here is add your text you can either click T on your keyboard or just grab your text tool on the top left make a large-enough box so that you have room to work with and then we'll go ahead and add our text so I will say the world is yours like from that video hold down ctrl and then click it around so you can actually see it so now what we want to do is you can double click on your text maybe double click it until everything is highlighted and you can click over here on the right to this character box and design your text however you like it so you can choose your color for the font I'm going with the bug fast font if you'd like to copy that just google bug fast font free download you guys can use whatever you'd like you can bump up the size of the text if you like a little side note if things start getting we'll just kind of stretch these boxes out so you have more room on the actual line itself and now we're ready to create this 3d warping effect on it it is more simple than you may think all you need to do is go to effects and presets and look up cc cylinder effect it's under perspective go ahead and apply that on to your font and now you'll see that you have your font in this kind of circle and if we open up rotation and our effect controls you'll see we can actually rotate on the y-axis to make this go wherever we'd like so that's how we're gonna add the animation before we do that we need to go ahead and design this so that it's encompassing the area that we like so first off let's open up radius and let's kind of bump this up we want to we want a more wide radius so maybe 200 and you'll see that this starts getting stretched to compensate that to compensate with the stretching you guys can use these little boxes here just to kind of rotate and see however you'd like it or you can press s on your keyboard you can also mess with the scaling stretch that get that looking however you'd like and what you need to do next is create the animation so go and select your layer go up to the rotation tab under your cc cylinder and then you're going to want to keyframe at your beginning position here or wherever you want the animation to start scrolling around keyframe your rotation Y now scroll maybe all the way to the end of where this is going to take place and we're just gonna crank this up so that this number is around 3 and you guys can change this around depending on how fast or slow you'd like the animation so if you want it to be a little bit faster you can eyes can open up your transform options here click open Effects CC cylinder and rotation your keyframe if you pull that closer it'll be a faster animation if you drag this out it'll be a more slow down animations so we've got that animation if I press play you'll see now this is rotating that's a little bit too fast so I may drag the keyframe out a bit now what we need to do now is you'll see how the text isn't really behind the place that we want now here's a quick and easy little fix for that so we're gonna position this where we'd like you guys can also use the built in positioning here if you don't want to change any of the positioning on the text but you still want to move where it is so what we're gonna do is select our text here we're gonna click ctrl D to duplicate it and I'm going to rename this world as yours underneath we're gonna grab the underneath layer and I'm going to drag it beneath the me layer you'll see me jpg that's actually just the picture of me or whatever you have in there you could have video footage just place that below here so select your top text layer and what you want to do is you want to go up to rotation you see where it says render change that from full to outside and as you see you don't even need to create a mask it's just gonna perfectly loop around because we have that layer over here which is in the back you'll see if I delete that the outside is only gonna show like this but if we bring this back this render is on full but it's below the me layer this top layer is just on outside so you can easily have it rotate around any subject you like alright guys so we talked about a lot of the tools used in creating this cool hologram futuristic environment we spoken on everything from 3d tracking designing your Holograms doing some ins and outs like outlines or 3d rotating text we talked everything about the plugins to create these cool glitches we talked about where to get or how to make a lot of the assets that go into making something like this now let me get into some of the nitty-gritty let's kind of go up the ladder some more advanced methods and there's two in particular the first one is going to be talking all about creating some cool wireframe animations so as you see here I added one in this is completely tracked in and this is just a little 3d model with wireframe which we're gonna talk about normal wireframe on a normal model without any movement or maybe just a normal rotation like I did here and then we're going to talk a little bit about adding wireframe and then tracking in using all the things we spoke about before with something like with something like this where you actually have an animated model with that cool wireframe so let's get into that select your 3d camera tracker on your original footage go ahead and find the position where you'd like to add something into your footage so use your bull's eye here I'm gonna right-click around this cluster and instead of click instead of creating a solid like we have been doing before where we pre compose it we're actually gonna create a null so click create null and camera and we already have a 3d camera tracker so delete the 3d camera tracker the second one now we have a track now so as you see basically what a track null is if you don't already know it's a placeholder which is going to contain this tracking information so both of these ways are going to involve using 3d I'm gonna do it two ways I'm gonna use element 3d which is built into After Effects it's a third-party plug-in by Video Copilot and I've made a bunch of tutorials in that in the past but aside from that and I'm also gonna link some tutorials on blender 3ds max whatever I can find for whatever 3d software you may use blender is free blender is free for those of you that may want to try that I'll link the tutorial there I myself will show you element 3d and cinema 4d so element 3d first we're gonna go up to layer we're gonna go to new and then solid and we're gonna name this solid we're gonna name this our element 3d wire head now this is just a normal blank solid what you want to do what you want to do from here is look up the element 3d plugin and of course this is only if you have element 3d once you place the element 3d plug-in on to your solid you'll see if you go to your FET controls here you have your scene setup button go ahead and click that you guys can find some obj files some c40 files and import them through here I'm just gonna grab one here this is actually from my 3d starter pack it has a bunch of models it has a bunch of textures link to that will be below as well as everything else so bring this in it's basically just a female head you can find our own texture we want to blend this with so maybe this chrome texture here that's under physical so now we can go ahead and open up this object and select our texture and we can actually select this little wireframe tab and you can enable the wireframe and now you can kind of design the wireframe from the ground up so you can change the width of the lines here you can change solid lines only whatever you'd like so I'm gonna go lines only I'm gonna make the line color this tsiyon like we did before so I messed around with some different textures I just use all of those steps that I was just talking about and here's what we got we have something pretty interesting here click OK when you're ready when you're satisfied with the look of what you've created and your little 3d object will pop up somewhere within 3d space since it's since we're using element 3d it'll already be a 3d object now what we need to do is we need to track this in the place we want we don't want this to be floating willy-nilly somewhere in our city where we can't find it we need to use that tracking null which we created before we brought in our 3d object so here's a little track null but rename this to building tracking null what we want to do is select our element 3d layer here of our head we're gonna go up to group one or whatever group your actual 3d object is in so you'll know by clicking scene setup and you'll see Group one here you're gonna want to open up Group one like I said open up group utilities and then create a group null you want to click create and it's going to create its own little null here and this is basically a null controller for the actual movement or motion of the head here so let's go ahead and sync everything up so what we can do is select our building track null click P to open up the positioning of that open up your group one all click P to open up the positioning of that but what you want to do is just select the positioning of your building track null with this selected you click here click ctrl C to copy click here for your group one na for your 3d layer click ctrl V to paste you'll also want to select your anchor point for your building track now ctrl C select your anchor point on your Group one alt control V and look now it's pasted that head exactly where the track point is and if we drag along you'll see now that that has tracked exactly where the track point or exactly where that track and all we created was placed so that's how you can track your 3d element 3d layers they're super super useful knowledge and now we can actually mess around and create the look that we want so we can actually scale everything using our group 1 knowledge and now we can actually scale it up just from here so that way it won't change anything it won't make it crazy we know exactly where it's gonna be and you can also use the rotation controls here as well so let's go so I'll scale it up to the point where I can actually start seeing some of the wireframing I may even raise it on the y-axis a bit what you even could do is you could keyframe this wire rotation now you guys can go ahead rewind the video use those hologram effects I've been talking about use the glitch effects to customize this one thing I do want to show you is I'm how to actually blend this in with this area so instead of it hanging off a building we want to blend this a little bit so what I'm gonna do and this is just an easy little trick is I'm going to go up to layer I'm gonna go to new and then solid and I'm going to this 3d wire face mask and you can make the color whatever you want let's just make it black I guess click okay and then this is gonna turn black hide the layer so we can see through it now with our wire face mask layer selected what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to click G on my keyboard or grab your pen tool or your square tool I'm going to create a mask kind of cutting off this edge of the screen and as we drag along here you'll be able to see what the mask is like in relation to our head so I wanted to kind of cut off by the shoulders make sure that as the screen moves along you may have to keyframe it or just move the positioning that this is always going to be cutting off around the sole around the shoulders that's looking fine what we need to do here is click em on that 3d wire mask layer change the mask to subtract and then we can select our element 3d wire head actual layer the actual 3d object here and we can click toggle switches and modes and you see where it says track matte change the track matte alpha matte 3d wire face mask and now you'll see that the mask will actually affect where we drew it here you can't just normally mask out this 3d object with element 3d you have to create this track matte so now we can open up the mask here bump up the feather so now it's looking a little bit more hologram like it's just kind of faded out by the bottom part now what we want to do is add a light source here so it kind of looks like the head is being projected from some sort of projector source so to do that what we're going to do is we're going to create another blank solid so go to layer new solid and we're going to name this one light wireframe head whatever you want to do it so you know what you are making make this one a blue solid and this is important make sure the color of this layer is black click OK so this will change the screen completely black you're going to want to go to effects and presets look up a lens flare it's under generate drop that on your light source here and now we can actually change and now we can click toggle switches and modes down here to show our blending mode changing blood change your blend to add and that'll just have the lens flare here which is perfect now in your FET controls with your light source you can change the lens type if you maybe want to have a blue one you can also change the hue whatever you like if you want to change the color of this but that's beside the fact the only other thing you want to do is you see these little targets here those targets are basically just controlling how much the angle of the lens flare is so if you want to just have a light instead of like reflections going everywhere just drag those targets into the middle now we can actually go ahead and track this with our track null so click toggle switches and modes make this a 3d layer here so now this is moving within 3d space according to our 3d camera now which need to track now we just need to match up the positioning of this and our null so we have our 3d building track null we're gonna do the same thing we did with the head control click P on it click P on the light source to open up the position of both select your building track null position ctrl C select your light source position control V and now our light is at our track now we can lower this place it kind of by the base so now it really does look like it is being projected there to finish that all off I actually went ahead and added a little color balance HLS onto the three layer and I just keyframed it so that it would kind of cycle through colors make it a little bit more vibrant and then I added some little elements here just to add some like HUD overlays over top of it alright guys now let me show you how we can add in animated 3d objects using cinema 4d and I will leave some links below if you want to use blender or any other type of 3d software we're gonna create in this animated wireframe bird here I'll show you all the steps involved with that and then it looks pretty sick so inspired by the bird from the original video here I'm pretty sure this little wireframe in itself is a plugin I'm gonna show you just a stock way to do it in cinema 4d I'm gonna go into project and I'm going to find my linked comp for that we've been working out of control C control V on that to just copy and paste that so we're making a duplication of it in our project bin so now we have link on five I'm gonna rename this to clean export main now let's find that Kleenex port mein kampf double-click on it so it's just a duplication of our original mein kampf and we're gonna delete everything in this composition except for our normal footage and our 3d camera tracker it's a hold down shift click and delete so now we are starting from absolute scratch here these were already in the video because like I said I lost the original project file those were already included so we're starting from scratch select this select your main footage go up to effect controls and just to show you we haven't deleted everything if we go back to our main comp here everything is so go back to our clean export com select your footage click your 3d camera tracker we're gonna I'm pretty sure that the area that I wanted my bird was right around here going to right-click and click create solid and camera we're gonna delete the second camera we want to go up to file export and click max on cinema 4d exporter click OK this is basically saying that the layers won't be exported only the track solid and the 3d camera tracker will so it's only exporting 3d things and as you see I already named this before you can just name this clean export mein kampf whatever you'd like so you remember it puts place it somewhere where you can remember I have my 3d project files folder here click Save now what we want to do is we want to go and find our actual animated objects so I made a full video talking about this before but so on turbosquid here is the one that I'm using I literally just search for flying animated flying bird so if I was in your shoes animated flying bird if you want to spend a little bit more money maybe get a more high quality something of course you can and you can get some nicer animations there are options out there you want to use the free one which I found which is animated I'll leave a link down to this below all you need is an FBX for this so just make sure there's an FBX C 4d or whatever a corresponding file or your 3d software FBX will work fine for me so go ahead and download that FBX you've downloaded that you can click show in folder it's in my 3d objects folder here it's just called eagle I'm just going to drag that into cinema 4d and it's basically saying I already have it open somewhere else I'll just open it in a new one click OK and here with this specific with this specific animation 3 object I have there's actually a few different animations that you can use so it has one kind of just flat normal and then it has a few other things I'm just gonna go with the fly animation here's what the animation is looking like and that's only within 30 frames so we're gonna do a few things first first off we don't need all the lighting everything here we just need this which is the actual geometry with the texture we're gonna get rid of the texture so that doesn't matter and this is the actual spline or the bone structure for the animating select hold down shift select your object that should look like a triangle here and then your null with your little bone structure ctrl C and then we're just going to make a new clean project here and ctrl V to paste it so now this is exactly what we want if we press play this is what we're looking like only issue here this is only a 30 frame animation so we're gonna loop this real quick and this is very simple as well so on the top right go from startup to animation and now you'll see these are all your little animated keyframes we have here select all of those ctrl C and then you also want to click here to select that drag to the end and then just click control V and then just repeat that for as many how for as long as you like the animation to loop through now we can go to the top right and go back to startup and now you can actually make this however any frames you want so 120 maybe drag this out and if we select here you'll see our keyframes go all the way to the end which is nice so we have a nice looping flying animation and this is a free one so the animation isn't anything crazy but for our purposes we're adding glitches and wireframes anyway so this will work perfectly fine so for the wireframe and if you don't want to do wireframe you can do anything in the world to customize this I've been making a lot more cinema 4d tutorials so just check out my channel or just search through YouTube search through Google customized if you want to do the wireframe like I said I think they use a specific plugin for the snappy wireframe in that video if you know that comment down below or comment the way they did it down below I'm just going to show you the way that I know now there's two ways I know you can either create a hair material and then just customize it through that you can click and hold here by your arrays and create an atom array and then you want to grab this year I'm just going to rename this so that the should say eagle grab your actual geometry drag it so that the arrows pointing down drop that under your atom array and you'll see it's going to make it now out of all circles and segments which is pretty cool and if you like this look you can actually leave it like that if you want to customize it anymore and I'm moving my camera so you guys can see better but click your atom array go to object and you can change the actual radius for your cylinders or your spheres so I like going to for both of these that's what I specifically use and that's what gave me this real kind of wireframe look so that's that and if you want to add a color to this of course you could do a lot of it in After Effects after the fact but just to give it a nice base color kind of little glowy color what you can do is just double click here to create a new material double click on that material turn off color turn off reflectance turn on luminance and then just choose whatever color you'd like so I chose orange so now if you deselect it here is what that is looking like but it customized your bird however you'd like it or whatever object you're animating and you want to put in your scene all right so you've done that you're ready to add it back into After Effects let's see how we're gonna do that so you can click file save we can click file open and remember before we created that clean export main comp we exported it from After Effects as a cinema 4d file open that and now check this out so if you press play this is the exact camera movement that is in After Effects and just a badger just to better visualize that you can open up this null you can uncheck this camera and then I'll zoom out here so here's our camera and you'll see this is the exact camera movement this is where the track solid was so we have the exact copied camera movement from After Effects in C for D so now literally all we need to do is you can hold down V on your keyboard go to the project where you were customizing your bird here's test the original one I made I think is this one so all you need to do here just select all this ctrl C hold down V on your keyboard go to projects open up your clean export main comp this is the one where we have the tracking with the camera and our track solid and then click control V so now our bird is in here now you can't just move it like this because these are all keyframes what you need to do is just hold down shift click together your atom your Eagle the spine like alt G and that's gonna put it in its own little null and now we can move it wherever we like so let's name this null eagle no and now we can actually grab the axes of this and it'll move the Eagle the animation anything we like and to get this full out view like I said we're not checked on to the camera so check off the camera and now we can move this wherever we'd like and then holding alt to rotate your camera or you can use these controls up here you can also rotate the bird itself place this within the track solid and the reason why we made this track solid and we're lining it up with the track solid because this track solid is exactly where we made our track solid and after effects now what we can do now is snap onto the camera and that's a big step make sure you do that before we save it you can you see this green checkmark for the track solid uncheck that so that you just hear bird file save clean export mein kampf c4d hop and after effects you can hide the track solid and your after effects and now let's just drag and drop in that clean export mein kampf c4d file and now check it out once we drop in this cinema 4d thing and line it up just to see the reference you'll see it's going to be exactly where our tracked comp is so this is pretty cool so check this out as we drag along now this is how you can kind of cross reference what it'll look like once it is in After Effects it's completely tracked where that solid is looking pretty cool and now you can make any adjustments you'd like so say for example oh you don't want the bird kind of facing that far to the left whatever it is you don't like the orientation of it hop back into c4d grab your Eagle null change your rotation maybe you want it like that file save click after effects and then watch it'll 100% update for you once you're satisfied with the positioning the scaling everything the tracking all you need to do is export that in cinema 4d let me show you how to do that so we'll hide this for now this is basically just our reference layer that's not going to be our actual keep in the comp player go into cinema 4d start at the beginning you may also want to select this 3d camera tracker and you see where these keyframes end just move to the end of the comp because that's all the frames we want to export we don't want to export all this so around 116 frame here's your render options here go ahead and click that and you can go to output the great thing about exporting from after-effects to cinema4d is your with your height all this is already going to be set all you need to do is change this from all frames to manual and this is at 1/16 so we want to render out the first 116 frames from 0 to 116 that's fine we're just going to be using the physical renderer we're not doing with any plugins so it won't be confusing anyone can do it like this tiff dot PSD layers are fine click these three dots here and now you'll see this is all the frames that did the first time around whenever I was experimenting go to a folder here's my 3d project files folder you're gonna want to make your own folder so right-click go to new folder and I'll name this bird I'll name this wireframe bird - you'll see I already did this once open up wireframe bird - and you just want to make a fire name file you just want to make a file name so just name it bird and then as it exports it'll say bird one bird - click Save and one less tip here before you do render you're gonna want to check this alpha channels it'll render the black background is transparent so it'll just be the bird make sure you check alpha channel under save and then you're good to go so just go ahead and click to your render picture viewer and perfect so now you're gonna see since this is physical we didn't do anything crazy with plugins we didn't do anything with lighting this is gonna render out super quick all right so our render is complete and we're gonna go ahead and find that project that we just made so wireframe bird to here is all the little pictures we just rendered out so this will be a video once we put it together to put it together go to your project bin here you may need to find it here right click in some gray space and go to import multiple files and then go ahead and navigate to your folder you made with all your render outputs so why are frame bird to select the first one and then just click import make sure it's importing as footage tip sequence is fine click import this will basically say do you want to get rid of the Alpha Channel just say ok we already exported without we already checked the Alpha Channel in there whenever we exporting so just click done and now we actually have this video TIFF sequence in here if we just drag that in the timeline since we linked it with that track solid we linked it with the camera this will be perfectly tracked in place exactly where we want it so if I drag along here it'll be perfectly tracked in the exact spot that I just that I designated so that is a little more complicated that's how you add in an animated 3d object and to your tracked sequence into your tracked footage your tracked three-city whatever it is you're creating you could rewind the video if you'd like to apply the hologram effects that I've been talking about on to this element as well all right guys so I showed you the ins and outs of creating this cool hologram AR type look like little nods exponent vid II oh we did the breakdown I showed you everything about glitches tracking some cool things you can do to spice them up going into details and everything in between I think the only things that I didn't actually show step by step is a how to make the city but like I said I followed a tutorial on how to do that link that below it's by the guy who actually made the music video so who better to show that process than him himself B I didn't show you how to create any I didn't show you how to create any growing trees because I think that takes its own our process in itself but there are some great tutorials there that I'm gonna link below and then see I didn't show you anything with the mocap suit because I don't own one personally but I'm gonna link some things there below so anything regarding the tutorial you can find it here a lot of the things that are able to do by yourself in your bedroom on a computer which follow this tutorial I put as much as I possibly could in there so hopefully you learned something from this that's always my goal anyways guys I hope you did enjoy comment below what you'd like to see me break down next leave a like comment subscribe as always guys thank you so much for watching thank you so much for supporting and I'll see you guys in the next one [Music]

Channel: Max Novak

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Id: ElMgIrl2ZRM

Length: 77min 2sec (4622 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 23 2019