VFX tool box

Week 1:

Opening sequence: Money heist

All things considered, the opening scene successfully introduces the main themes of the series, which include suspense, friendship among friends, and revolt. It shows the origami and blueprints being drawn onto the paper architecture, which really drew me in, and the Salvador Dali mask, which evoked mystery in me, hinting at the moral confusion and personal conflicts that will surface as the characters navigate their reckless plan.

After effects Week 2: learning how to Alpha

adding hue saturation to the card to change the heart from red to grey.

2. applying levels and playing with input black to turn the grey colour you made using hue saturation to black to fit the others

removing the black points in the card to make it see through I added an effect called luma key what can remove black or white areas by using the threshold

I placed the card layer above Daniel in the image and then adjusted the track matte settings on Daniel’s layer to use the poker layer as a reference. This made Daniel’s layer transparent only in the white areas of the poker layer.

small video i made doing the same thing with track matte but changing Daniel with smoke and adding effects such as radial blur and twirl

assets:

Week 3/4 : silhouette green screen

this is part of the clip i used for the green screen silhouette test i did

by selecting all photos and then enabling the png sequence your pngs will then turn into a video

then click to effects and presets on the left. Type “Keylight” Next, select the backdrop on the image with the eyedrop selection tool located and screen colour.

to remove the green reflection you see on the women play with he screen balance

next press ‘Crtl + Y‘ to create a solid and put it under the layer of the women

head back to the keylight effect and change the final result to screen matte and play with the clip white at the screen matte drop arrow.

finish result:

Week 5 : Tracking

We first resized and repositioned the image called ‘pyramid’ in the video clip, making it smaller and placing its anchor point at the center of a circle. Next, we moved the video to the right side, revealing an option named ‘tracker.’ We then clicked on ‘track motion,’ which provided us with a tool called ‘track point 1.’ Using this tool, we placed the track point on the object we wanted to track, in this case, a mountain seen in the video. After selecting the play button, the tracking process commenced, capturing the movement of the selected object. Finally, we clicked ‘apply’ to complete the tracking process, ensuring that the image (‘png’) followed the tracked positions as keyframes were generated.

Tracking 2 : Content aware fill

1). Duplicate the clip

2.)mask around what you want deleted on the duplicated clip then click ‘M’ on the clip to bring up the mask option and change ‘add’ to ‘subtract’ what will then leav you with a black hole.

3.) next you will shift over to the right hand side of the screen and find tracker and change the method to perspective and press play so it tracks the mask.

4.) Remain within the section where you located the tracker, and search for a feature labeled ‘Content-Aware Fill.’ Adjust the alpha expansion to approximately ‘6’ and set the fill method to ‘surface.’ Then, proceed to choose ‘generate fill layer.’ This action will utilize artificial intelligence to intelligently fill the designated area based on its surrounding elements.

5.) After performing those steps, a PNG element will be generated and displayed above both clips. This element will represent the area filled by the AI, crafted based on the surrounding elements in the video.

the sign next to the door was changed .

final result

Tracking 3:

go to tracker on the left hand side of the screen
head to effect control on the left hand side where you should see the effect you applied and click the drtop arrow on advanced, then enable the option detected analysis.
you should have a collection of point on your screen
scroll through the video and see what points stay active through out the whole clip and select a batch of the points wherever you want you text tracked and right click the footage and select ‘create text and camera’

Tracking 4 :

duplicate clip
mask around the kids face
Navigate to the “track motion” option and modify one of the selections to “face.” Subsequently, click on the play button to initiate the tracking process.

4. then mask should then track his face.

5. Move to the right and access the search bar located in the effects and presets panel. Type in either ‘fast box blur’ or ‘gaussian blur.’ Once you’ve found the desired effect, double-click it while having the masked layer selected. This action will apply the effect to the clip. After some time, you’ll need to adjust the value in the effect control panel on the left to achieve the desired blur effect.

raw footage

using the effect shatter on the gem

3D TEXT:

AOVS AND Z DEPTH:

changing the aspect ratio

adding camera lens blur to the image you wish to have depth of field on, using Extractor to create the depth of field, setting it to the depth of fields setting you created in Maya, and parenting the depth of field to the camera lens blur to alter the focal distance