REMOVE & REVEAL a Car Logo in After Effects!

so I see some of you guys have struggled with removing car badges in this tutorial here so as your lord and savior come forth and I shall give you I'm gonna show you a cool way to bring the logo back project files and footage all linked below and with that being said let us begin if it's your first time here we're using the content aware tool on Adobe After Effects which works exactly like the Photoshop content aware tool except that it's a little bit more temperamental [Music] but that mostly comes down to the footage that you have for example it works easier when you're removing a logo from a plain Bonnet with very little Reflections now the method for removing a logo is an easy three-step process so let's get stuck in so Step One is rotoscoping out your object and all this means is drawing a mask around it and tracking that mask so if you have footage like this let's firstly duplicate the layer and hide the bottom one for the top one let's rotoscope the logo using whatever method you prefer you'll need to do this for the frames you want to do the effect for in this case I did it from here to here you can use alt less square bracket and ALT right square bracket to cut out only that section and also move your render points here so only this area here renders otherwise After Effects will try and pre-render everything and your computer will end up looking like this so I use mocha AE to track it but you can use the road to brush 2.0 tool or a simple mask with the pen tool and just tracking it but once we have our mask we can go to window content aware fill and we should see our Alpha shown if not then you don't have a visible mask you should be seeing a tracked black shape so either you didn't turn off the bottom layer or you don't have your mask Alpha set to add now step two is to select a Content aware method the three different ones are object blend surface and Edge blend I always start with object blend and using the best lighting and I also make the expansion between three and five this basically allows more info to be taken around the logo and if we're lucky we get a good version if not we can try different lighting methods or go into the second method which is surface which is mostly for text on a plain background like paper or the side of a building or a truck I find that the surface method doesn't work that well however as a last resort I like to use Edge blend this is the fastest method but it's the least accurate as all it does is blend the edges up to the edge so you don't get much information in the center now what's good is that the content aware effect absorbs information that you add into it so if you run the object blend once and it doesn't really work you can just try rerun it again and you will get a better result it just takes a lot more processing time which is why step 3 is to iterate until Perfection but how do you remove one star are more complicated for example example here where there are a lot of Reflections in this shot well we have to feed it information so for this you have to create your own reference frames so what you'll do is you would click here where it says create your own reference frame which will open up Photoshop now you use the content aware tool here to try and make that frame look as perfect as possible then you'll close it and repeat for as many frames as possible before you get absolutely tired of doing this tedious task however the results can be very good congratulations you have successfully created a Clean Plate you may also want to duplicate your mask and invert it so you have the logo by itself so here is a unique way to bring back the logo the displacement reveal I'm going to use an effect by red giant called chromatic displacement for the main effect and Optical glow for the glow effect as it has these really nice radiating lines however this set of plugins will set you back a lot of money so if you want this for free on your browser type www don't worry after this I'll show you how I made it with free plugins it's not the same but what can you expect you cheap motherf let's take the mask from your content aware steps and invert it now we have three layers the original clip The Clean Plate and the logo by itself so all I did for this effect was keyframe these settings to create a glass looking effect with the chromatic displacement and also I keyframe the glow to appear as well these will vary depending on your logo as it literally affects the pixels of it so do the same thing with the effect CC glass and a standard glow so you can play with these settings but if you check the link in the description I created a free preset so you guys can use in After Effects and I think it still looks pretty good all I did was keyframe the settings here for the CC glass and these ones here for the standard glow but there are other methods to make some really satisfying reviews such as this one here that you can learn by clicking on this video project files and footage all linked below shout out to all the patrons with that being said I'll see you in the next video

Channel: Camilo Castañeda

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Keywords: car logo removal, how to remove a logo in after effects, logo animation in after effects, after effects tutorial, car logo flip after effects, logo reveal, make a car logo flip, after effects content aware, how to use content aware after effects

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Length: 4min 55sec (295 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 23 2023