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We’ve been on YouTube for over 8 YEARS now!
So today, we thought we'd take a look back
at our top 5 favorite superhero effects created
in HitFilm.
There's loads of superhero movies coming out
now, in fact, more and more all the time and
they obviously have better and better VFX
so what we want to know from you guys, what
are your top 5 visual effects that you've
seen in superhero movies and you never know
we may try to recreate the ones that are possible
inside HitFilm.
So the first one we're going to look at is
from Assemble which, if you haven't seen it
you really should go and take a look, it stars
this guy here.
He's Captain America and he creates a shield
and it's like him throwing it and cool stuff
like that although it is a cardboard shield
Oli.
Yeah, it was really awesome to make the model
and then we got to convert it into a 3D model
in the short film we did, and it was brilliant,
and I got to do a little bit of stunt work
in there as well.
Absolutely, let's take a look at that and
see what we think.
We shot this actually outside the building
they used in the Avengers where there is also
a wooded area luckily.
The acting there is stupendous, it's what
sells the effect. You need a good actor to
sell this kind of ridiculous effect.
But yeah, do go and check that out. You can
now do this in Express and Pro.
Yep, absolutely.
And you get the model for the shield absolutely
free. We'll pop a link in the card on-screen,
there will have been a card on-screen somewhere
in that and it'll be down in the description
as well so go check it out.
So the second one we're going to take a look
at is actually from a Masterclass we created.
Well, not we because I wasn't here yet. It's
called Heads Up and in this tutorial we created
the heads up display for Ironman and it features
Kirstie.
Yes, Kirstie jumped into the role of Tony
Stark and there's a little bit of Simon Jones
in there and even myself.
This is an effect that I created so I can
take some credit here rather than just letting
Javert steal the limelight.
Actually, in our software, this is a real
simple effect to do and it's really effective
and it really comes down to getting the glows
and things that look really really good and
again, that's something that Javert's excellent
at.
But yeah, do check out this tutorial. All
the resources are there, let's have a look.
Let's take a look.
I would say Oli that this is the tutorial
that I've seen most people replicated that
then have uploaded something on YouTube.
I think they all go and do their own versions
of all our effects and often do them better
than we do, but this one I've seen done loads
and loads of times and people have done some
really interesting things with the stuff that
they add on and looking at it in different
ways but yeah, we're really happy with this
one. Super popular and it was really fun to
work on as well.
It came out so well, it's uses animated masks
and stuff to dim out Kirstie's face as it
goes back and the things are tracked on so
well, it looks great.
Yeah using the eyes to track is really good.
And I got the build all these different elements
and everything which was really good fun but
then when you actually animate them inside
HitFilm it's like even better, you're like
"Oh my god, this really is like Ironman",
so yeah, check it out, give it a go, see what
you can do.
The third one we're going to look at is some
dodgy guy hanging around in a car park and
then running about. Again, this stars Oli,
but Javert got on board with this and Javert
is excellent with all the lighting effects
so it's got lightning and lens flares and
all sorts.
Tell us more, Oli.
Yeah, well it was a really fun shoot actually.
So we went down to a garage. We used your
car for some practical lighting on the day.
We put some water on the ground and stuff
to get some nice reflections and all sorts.
It was a really fun shoot and came out really
well.
Super guerrilla-style, you could do this anywhere,
and it's a good tutorial to follow along with
because you learn a lot about lighting, you
learn a lot about lights, and you use those
so much in compositing.
Absolutely.
So yeah, let's check it out.
Ah moody Oli.
Just hanging around.
Time is running out. The clock is ticking.
Slow down. Here we go. Zap.
Running into the future of a larger beard.
Nice! And wilder hair.
The great thing about the effect is that it's
actually very short so you don't linger on
it. Could have done with more practical lighting
if we'd had it at the time. That only would
have helped sell it more. But again, everything
you need to recreate this effect is right
there, follow Javert, who has much less hair
as well. It seems to be a period of less hair
in the HitFilm community.
So the next one comes from Tom, who will soon
be joining us in the office, in fact.
This was inspired by Doctor Strange and his
appearance in Avengers: Infinity War. There's
a scene where he's looking at every kind of
reality.
Alternate futures.
That's the one. I can't remember how many
there are, there are a lot.
Millions! And only one with the good outcome.
There we go.
Lucky there was at least one!
Yeah, thank god. So this effect was really
cool, you got to kind of layer up different
versions of himself looking around. And create
the swirly green mystical effect. And I think
it came out really nice. It did come out really
nice, I actually haven't seen how this one
was put together and I'm interested to have
a watch and see if I can work it out, I probably
can't. Here we go.
I love all the glowy stuff. It looks like
he would have had to layer himself up a lot
of times. I like all sort of particles and
streams coming out of the infinity stone.
But yeah, Tom will be joining us in the office
for more tutorials. Again, go find this tutorial,
if you haven't followed it already it's going
to teach you a lot about lighting. It's gonna
obviously teach you a lot about compositing
and everything and multiple layers, which
you can use for all sorts of things from cloning,
through to doing these kind of crazy effects
like Doctor Strange, so check it out. So for
this one we're kicking it old school, we're
going back, way way back.
The video says it's like 7 years old, it's
actually older than that when we first filmed
it. It's kind of superman flying, it's been
super popular I think it's had the most views
of any video we've ever done. Weirdly we did
this all that time ago based on a previous
video which was supergirl flying, which is
our previous most popular video we had ever
done. So it's about time we redid this one
again, because personally, you know, I can
see a lot we can improve about this. Ironically
it had the best green screen we've ever had
behind it. We built this massive green screen,
oh my word. It took a very long time and it
was a physical green screen. But then what
we did was something that wasn't as cool and
fun and inspired as we would do these days.
I guess you guys want to see us do this again,
but do it like really well. If you do, let
us know. You could try following this tutorial,
but I think instead you should tell us how
much you want us to do it again, because we've
got Javert, we've got Tom, we've got that
guy that keeps starring in all of our stuff,
what's his name again? Oli! Who could be this
superhero, so let us know what you think,
let's take a watch of this one, Oli.
Oh, dear. There he goes. I like that the hair's
blowing around. The hair blowing around is
good, the clouds, not so much, the environment
is average. We're just gonna critique it,
this is like Corridor Digital's critiquing
visual effects but we're critiquing our own.
The glow coming off underneath, the reflection
of the green was awful, I remember that. It
was on his front and we had to basically mask
that out by hand, which before we had Mocha
inside HitFilm, was not an easy task. This
guy was a bit of a trooper, because we were
blowing like a really powerful fan in his
face the entire time. But if you put someone
in a big black coat, they become a big black
blob. Particularly back then the camera was
not picking it up well, so you can tell that
we tried to brighten it up as much as possible.
But he's meant to be out there in the sun,
so why on earth were we thinking these two
things were going to match together. So you
really always need to think about what you're
compositing into, which we clearly didn't
do enough.
If he'd been flying at night, maybe this would
have been appropriate, this level of lighting.
But to put him in a daytime situation was
a bad move. Recreating practical lights is
key to compositing, it makes so much difference.
And getting that outfit right as well, it's
not the right outfit, it's just things to
learn. So if we did this again, is there a
particular superhero you'd want us to do it
with? What should we dress Oli up as? I think
he can do Thor because he's done Thor before,
but maybe there's something else we could
do, so talk to us about it. I think we'd really
like to give this one another go. Absolutely.
Thanks for joining us today on this retrospective
look at some of our favorite superhero tutorials.
Now remember, all of the video links are down
in the description below so go and check them
out. And if anyone out there can try and make
a movie that incorporates all of these different
effects in one movie, doesn't matter if it's
long or short, send it to us, we want to see
it, I think it'd be great. Flying, Doctor
Strange, you know, it all sounds awesome.
If there's any particular effects that you
guys see in movies, how did they do that,
tell us about it, we'll try and make a HitFilm
tutorial about it in the near future. Absolutely.
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