All language subtitles for 11. Finishing Touches To Our Composite

hi everyone

welcome to our 10th class

in our course on creating high tech projectile weaponry

and nuke last class

we added some lens flares to our muzzle flash

and in this class

we're gonna take the shot to final

basically we're just gonna go through and refine areas

to help improve the shot

and help us get a final on our shot

if you were in a production environment

so one of the areas that's kind of bothering me

is this area up here um

one of the things is that it it

it feels like everything is blending a little too much

in this area here

um so what I'd like to do is I'd like to um

reduce the plate flare that we did

that was um

lighting up the entire plate

and I'd like to limit that to a specific area

so I have a roto shape here

I've created

but I'll create a new one here

just to show you what

what I'm talking about

cause what I want is to get some of this detail

that we had before back

so I'll bring in a roto paint note

and I will draw a shape of where I want it to affect

just gonna be pretty much this area

that's outside of the nozzle of the gun

just gonna feather my shape a little bit here as well

something like that

so if we view what we have

and if we attach our grade note

that's causing the plate flare

to our roto shape we just created

you'll see that

we kind of now have the flare

just without affecting everything in the sky

and just blowing everything out

so that's the detail you want to get back is this

so

if I go to the next frame

and I turn that off

or so return our or yeah

disconnect it from our shape

you'll see what we had where there was no detail

completely blown out

couldn't distinguish between the

muzzle flash and the sky and all that

when we attach it to the new rotate we just created

we've just given us ourselves

a lot of detail back into the shot

and with just a little bit more

and bring a little bit more detail

into this bottom area here

there we go something like that

that that that that to me feels pretty good

I'll make the muzzle flash on frame 43 a bit smaller

just just a touch

be something like that

then this frame here

when I just move

move it a bit up a little bit more

just so that we're not blending too much in

with the edge of the carrier ship over here

okay did it make too much of a difference

but yeah something like that

so I'm happy with that let's play that and see

see how how that looks

again these are all small changes that add up

and make big changes in the final of the shot

right away I

that feels a lot better

I'm I'm able to see the detail this area

not everything is all blown out and jumbled together

so I'm happy with that

um the last final um

tweak I wanna do is

in regards to the actual projectile that exits the gun

on frame 45 here

I'd like to actually adjust the

the shape of this

right now it's too similar in shape and size

to the previous frames muzzle flash

so when it plays

it almost feels to me like it's ejecting

what we're seeing here on frame 44

it's ejecting this

which is not the case

it's ejecting an actual projectile

that has nothing to do with this muzzle flash

so what I'm gonna wanna do is

I'm gonna want to adjust the shape of this

and make it more elongated

so squish it in the y

in the y axis like

so squeeze it in the y axis and extend it in the x axis

so we just need to find the portion of our

projectile here

which is right here in our distortion blast

so I'm gonna grab the shape here

and I'm gonna start adjusting it and squeezing it down

something like that

just that it has a feeling of it

that it's moving at a high speed

and it's moving forward

so there's a bit of a almost almost

almost simulating motion blur in the sense

so to me that

that feels pretty good um

I'd like to maybe

brighten it up a little bit

I'll try and do that within the glow node here

just a touch

she know what

I will actually keyframe this with a grade note instead

so I add a grade note to this

and you can see if we just gain up or affecting

the projectile

so I'm going to

so the keyframe of 1 before which is in essence is zero

then here I'm gonna brighten it up a little bit

so yeah maybe something like that

then we go to the next frame and we can turn that off

now I'd also like to

tint this a slightly different color basically

the exact same color as what we have here right now

but just something a little different

just so that

it distinguish itself again from the muzzle flash

so thinking of just adding a little touch of red again

we're talking very small subtle

subtle changes

so yeah something maybe like that

that that that's probably okay

and I can actually bring the opacity down a touch

over here okay

something like that

so now if we view the changes we've made

I think it'll feel a lot better

I'm liking what what I'm seeing

it is this is feeling a lot better

their projectile is much

more distinguishable now from the muzzle flash

and it feels like it's exiting at a high high speed

it's a little bright

but um I think you guys get the idea again

this is a type of shot that you can

really tweak to your heart's content um

I will go in and maybe lower the opacity a little bit

for that frame

and let's see here maybe just a touch here

alright let's see what we got

yeah that feels good to me

alright so we've gone through

refined our shots

kind of done the final touches and taken this to final

I'm hope I hope you guys were

got a lot out of this class

and course I hope you enjoyed it

and I hope to see you on my next course

uh thanks for joining me and um

I appreciate it very much

thank you bye bye