The Rare Effect Every Editor Should Know

[Music] there are many things I can do and many more that I can't I've come to appreciate the beauty of embracing both my strengths and limitations each challenge becomes an open canvas where I can blend the knowledge I've acquired with the colors of my determination there is solace in realizing that it's not just about mastering every skill but about the joy found in the process of doing however these limitations are rooted in reality time and resources are finite and some creative Endeavors Call My Name more faintly than the rest it just so happens to be that painting is one such ever what the did I just make yeah I don't know how to paint I love the art form but more as an admirer than a Creator so when I make the claim that I can turn myself into an animated painting what do I even mean I believe the most valuable skill anyone can develop comes into play here adaptability this is about finding a way to achieve the end result precisely because I lack that experience the question then is if I'm to create this animation do I really need to learn how to paint let's not get ahead of ourselves if I can take the final product that's in my head and work it backwards into smaller pieces then the whole thing becomes a little less daunting so let's give this a shot I want a painting style piece for the final product since I have no ideas yet I'm going to need to spend some time storyboarding once I have the concept I can then start doing tests shooting the scenes and building out any digital needs then it's a matter of compositing it all together to create a complete sequence which I can then turn into a painting there are gaps in this but that kind of doesn't matter what I just made is a solid found foundation for a workflow to get from beginning to end and I can adapt as I go let's start with the storyboard after spending a decent amount of time drawing and sitting there trying to concept how to make this all work I came up with this so let's actually go through the storyboard right now we start with a camera moving closer to a painting until we're pulled inside a spotlight is turned on above me with a transition to some close-up cards following a scene with the symbols we push through to a silouette of me ending on a macro shot of my eye where my pupil changes so that's basically the idea now I just need to make the shot and see if this all comes together and we may end up changing some things but there's only one way to find [Music] out hello again it is quite a few hours later and we are now fully dark and set up for some shooting there's four shots I need to get done tonight the establishing shot that overhead shot the silhouette shot and then the closeup of my eye and I think I could get all of that done tonight I'm going to do the overhead shot first I think the idea is I'm going to lift the camera up and I'm going to set up a little black blanket on the ground and uh see if this works okay all right I think I already found a little bit of an issue here and uh I don't know if you could tell but you can't really see my legs in this I think I'm going to change pants to something a little bit lighter first bit of problem solving uh I'll be back and just like that much better my legs should actually show up now in the shot I think that turned out pretty well yeah let's move on to the next shot shot number two which is really shot number one I'm going to be sitting down on my stool here in front of a black backdrop kind of portrait is Think Like oil painting fancy but I need to set up that black blanket that I used in the last shot on the wall so I'm just going to duct tape it and uh hopefully it stays I look like I'm about to take my yearbook photo so as long as the black backdrop stays which I think it is then I should be good to just look up at the camera we'll see if this works let's let's get this shot done I just I just finished this is so coopy but I think it'll work I think it'll work with the painting and the right sound design and music yeah onto the next shot let's get the silhouette shot done the idea for this shot is shooting directly into the soft box but exposing for the light instead of me so I'm full on Silhouette let's get this grid off all right fully silhouetted all I need to do is just stand right here in front of the light just get the shot and that's it and then right here where the edges are I can expand this out in After Effects finally on the last shot of me it's just a macro shot of my eye so I have the extension tubes here that let me get really close and all I got to do is just position myself right here I'm going to get this done and there you have it all finished it's just past midnight I'm going to pack it up and go to sleep cuz I'm pretty tired I'd say good shoot day we got this done let's pause for a moment I've gotten many questions about how I soundesign my projects and if I could share my personal Library so because of that I made an a mission to get a very specific 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made is for the trailer from the editing and animation course I launched last year with my brother and there's an announcement at the end of the video if you're interested in taking that chorus but I'll save that for later anyway here's a side by side for the before and after the piece was first animated in After Effects and then the frames were ran through acist to change the style is it the same as painting every every frame by hand of course not and my goal isn't to say look how easy it is to be an oil painter with this digital trick honestly this feels kind of closely related to the debate around AI art personally I'm not a fan of stripping the human element out and just having AI create the whole thing to me that isn't really art but since it's subjective to each the WR where I think there's a difference is when AI or programs like acis are used as an assisting tool to explore one's creativity further a good example of this is like generative fill from Photoshop but that's just my take let me know what you think in the comments with everything recorded it was just a matter of working some magic so let's go through each shot shall we starting with the establishing shot I first color graded it in resolve and then brought it into After Effects extending out the background was simple and I used a 3D camera to push into the darkness for a fake Dolly movement running a single frame to test Aus ended up with some pretty promising results the overhead light shot was next after picking a section that I thought would work I spent a ridiculously long time cutting myself out in retrospect I probably should have done a sloppy version first because what ended up happening is I didn't like that take after building up the scene with the overhead lights and shapes underneath I messed around with glow settings and then made the decision to redo the cutout all over again it was worth it though especially when we look at the paint test for this scene next was the close-up card shot the main trick here was to unstretch the suits on the card in order to match with the next scene speaking of which this scene was split into two sections animating the background texture which I did as sort of a shifting puzzle Loop and then the main suits in the center which I spent a bit of time giving some depth with gradients matching the pacing of the cards on stretching with this for suit scene here made for a pretty nice match cut as storyboarded I wanted the heart to act as a window to transition to the next shot so I cleaned up the silhouette and extended out the edges with a white shape as well as added a little bit of glow to tied all together then using the heart as a mat for the shot I was able to flow right through the forit scene into this shot and with that there was only one piece left the eye this one I definitely underestimated first I spent some time manually stabilizing my eye on the pupil this way I could composite in elements a bit easier especially since I planed to replace the pupil I took a frame into Photoshop and started painting the pupil out so I could have a clean plate a little disclaimer it's a little unsettling to see but I promise the final result is worth it bringing it back into After Effects I remade the reflections to place back on top I then cut out my eye which sounds a lot worse than it actually is so I could place The Clean Plate inside finally I brought in the suits and messed around with blending modes distorting them to fit and extra little details like shading underneath the eyelid to really sell the effect it's funny because once I ran through breakfast most of that detail kind of just disappeared but I do think it actually made a difference for the final painting result to look as good as possible and that was really it except for one major problem I didn't like the intro anymore it just didn't fit the playing card theme so just like everything else in this video it was time to adapt I reset and gave it another go this time incorporating the playing cards I don't know any card tricks so I settled on learning to card spring the deck practicing just enough to make it work for this re-shoot in hindsight I probably should have caught this in the storyboarding face but it's akin to looking too close at a painting to notice its flaws sometimes it's not until after you step back to admire the whole thing that you realize what needs adjustment being finished doesn't always mean that the work is complete and this is why I stress the importance of learning to adapt just like how this whole project started with not being able to paint there's always a solution to be found resigning to defeat is not how you progress the bottom line is if you can and you know it'll make your project even just a little bit better then you should and you know what I think it was worth it as you're about to see right now a [Music] [Music] [Music] the finished piece is up on my Instagram right now if you want to go watch it Loop a few times and if this video inspired you and you'd like to start your own creative journey I suggest checking out the course I co-created with my brother frame by frame inside I share my complete perspective on animation as well as many lessons breaking out specific animations my personal favorite techniques and so much more you can get the animation part of the course by itself plus get 10% off when you use this code or if you'd like to make videos like this you can get an even better deal by getting the full frame by frame course which includes a deep dive into cameras shooting script writing post production and of course animation basically making it a full film making Master Class the link to all of that is below if you want to learn more thanks for watching and I'll see you soon

Channel: Skymography

Views: 44,364

Keywords: animation, motion graphics, animator, after effects, design, designer, how to, painting effect, akvis oil paint, mixed media, sound design

Id: UswjNaV4tl0

Length: 10min 51sec (651 seconds)

Published: Wed May 15 2024