Digitally Painting Visual Effects in Photoshop
In this series of tutorials, we will be creating visual effects with digital painting. Software required: Photoshop CC 2014.
What you'll learn
We will start in Photoshop by importing a nice underwater video clip. We'll pick a starting point in our timeline to begin painting our ghoul face over our footage. Once we're happy with our first pose, we'll duplicate our layer and use tools to create two more poses for the face. Next, we'll composite our document into After Effects. We'll track the motion of the face in our footage and apply the information to our ghoul layers so their movements match. Finally, we'll use the great animation tools in After Effects to create the animation of the mouth opening and some other finishing touches to really pull our illusion together. By the end of this course, you will understand how you can digitally paint visual effects, composite Photoshop-layered files over live footage in After Effects, and use powerful tools to help integrate your effects. Software required: Photoshop CC 2014.
Table of contents
- Setting up Our Project in Photoshop 6m
- Getting Started with Our Ghoul Face Creation 10m
- Adding Details to Our Face 8m
- Smoothing out Our Ghoul Face to Match Our Footage 5m
- Creating an Open Mouth for Our Ghoul 6m
- Creating the Side View for Our Ghoul 10m
- Compositing Our Psd into After Effects 7m
- Motion Tracking the Face of Our Water Woman 8m
- Creating the Animation for Our Open Mouth 8m
- Applying Our Tracking Information and Adjusting Timing 7m
- Creating Our Reveal 9m
- Working on the Side Face Reveal 10m
- Integration Techniques for Our Ghoul Layers 9m
- Adding Some Final Effects to Pull Off Our Illusion 8m
About the author
Alex is a motion graphics author at Pluralsight. Starting out his career in illustration and design gave Alex a firm foundation in the more traditional forms of art. As he refined his skills, he eventually was pulled into the world of motion animation, as well as product design. It was there that Alex was able to take his artistic skills to new heights and really develop himself as a well-rounded CG artist. Whether you need a better workflow for building website layouts, or a crash course in... more