Friday, April 23, 2010

Demon Face Tutorial

In this video, I am introducing you to the most basic technique for making your face transform to look like a horrifying demon. I find that once you learn these basic steps, experimentation will be your best learning source.

The end of the video features my demon face after I added some more effects to it. For the eyes, you simply need to make a 'solid' and draw a small circle in it. You then parent it to the motion tracking, and feather a bit. To make my face glow, I used a plug-in for After Effects called 'Starglow'

For the screen shake, you need to make the footage a composition. Then, scale up the comp, alt-click on the position key-frame, and type in wiggle(x,y) . REPLACE THE 'X' AND 'Y' WITH NUMBERS. You usually need different numbers depending on how big the comp is, so just experiment. I'm pretty sure that the 'x' is how many times the wiggle occurs, and the 'y' is the intensity of the wiggle.

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