How to 3D Track a scene and insert Green Screen Actions using After Effects

Hi guys,
Welcome to this first episode of a new web series of video tutorials called "SottoZen VFX Factory".
We will show you how we make our own visual effects using 2D and 3D Softwares like Adobe After Effects, Premiere and Blender 3D.
We will also show you how to use lights, cameras, green screen, and practical effects to achieve awesome VFX on your videos.
NOTE: in this tutorial, I use the "FX Console" Plugin for After Effects made by VideoCopilot. It's a handy and fast tool to quickly access all the effects library working with AE. It's free and, once installed, you can start it pressing CTRL + SPACEBAR.
You can download it here:
www.videocopilot.net/products
Feel free to suggest to us what you would like to see on our tutorial, we will try our best to make it for you.

[@sottozen]

Hey guys, I hope you will enjoy this tut. Be patient with my English, I am studying it to improve my speaking skills. Let me know any suggestions or ideas for the next episodes. ;) NOTE: in this tutorial, I use the "FX Console" Plugin for After Effects made by VideoCopilot. It's a handy and fast tool to quickly access all the effects library working with AE. It's free and, once installed, you can start it pressing CTRL + SPACEBAR. You can download it here: www.videocopilot.net/products

[@anirbanadhikary8028]

Sir,do you do freelancing I am a vfx student.

[@amriteshgyan7947]

So awesome video...😍😍😍😍😍

[@Theacademy26]

If u are able to explain in our lanuage then its best to english .👌 Whats the name of this software ?.

[@Shokhrukh_Bukhari]

You did not show How set the shadows

[@israelalvin6210]

You probably dont give a shit but does someone know of a trick to log back into an Instagram account..? I stupidly forgot my account password. I appreciate any assistance you can give me.

[@kartiksharma2818]

People with different accents always know after effects better

[@sottozen]

This is true also for me :)

[@ayiekocreatefilmworks6759]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂shit

[@noCodeKay]

Tis the law

[@Ben.47]

I laughed so hardddddddddddddddd

[@geetamsinghkushwaha8323]

wo sab to theek hai bhai lekin itna budget bhi to nhi hota ki itna high specs wala PC kharid le 😂😂

[@skycladsquirrel]

"More or Less" had me cracking up! love it.

[@ikestrom]

Very cool! Please consider explaining how you did the shadows in a future tutorial.

[@jacobzatorsky]

yes please

[@Kimchi_Studios]

So easy! Can't wait to use this.

[@sottozen]

So happy it helps! :)

[@moshfiqrhmn5720]

u r vdos are so easy to understand ♥️ thanx

[@Sergeant_Blain]

Very good and straight to the point!!

[@mindspirittv6502]

It was rily handy thank you so much!!

[@good7bad138]

Yes! Tutorials!

[@terriayannawright3159]

thank you for this!

[@Arri.]

Hey guys this awsome 😁👏🏼

[@creepplayer3449]

Love ur work ❤️

[@yemarican]

Wonderful job guys .. I like it very much. Thank you for sharing it.

[@SonicBlue]

bro awsome video tutorial super easy to understand english is fine actually urs is waaay better then other ive heard lol subbed bro

[@sottozen]

Thanks a lot!

[@khaleephaentertainment9988]

Thanks for this bro

[@andrew-isac]

Great video thank u very much

[@UtopiaTimes]

Bravo!

[@HammadATTARI]

I watched some other tutorials but you explained better.

[@SyntheticFuture]

4:10 "more or less" xD Nice. Cool tutortia and I like how you pulled this of with a very basic green screen. Inspiring stuff :D

[@sottozen]

Synthetic_Future thank you so much :)

[@amadossa4866]

Good work ...thanks

[@Chisikaronga]

Thank you so much

[@cezanneali]

amazing :)

[@thomaswindfeld728]

Hahahaha! Love it!!!😆

[@jackblack5430]

Awesome tutorial! liked and subbed

[@sottozen]

Thank you so much

[@bamazed179]

very cool tutorial. I am new using a green screen. I am learning how to make music videos with out a big budget but also so they are still enjoyable for people to watch.

[@HighFOurce420]

hey me too lol

[@rajatt8muus]

Nice footage.

[@aleksandars9254]

Thanks!

[@Caezarsworld]

Great tutorial. Also I want to offer a tip for lighting your actors according to where the light source is coming from in the background footage, will make your actors blend into the environment better. thanks again

[@sottozen]

Common Mind yes! You are soo right. Great tip! :)

[@St.Soundtv]

Nice one

[@LSDpartei]

👌👌👌

[@YajatSingh22]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@15minutesrisk]

thank you

[@casualcorner199secchio]

Grazie fratello!

[@BaromarHensel]

thanks sir

[@WizInsight108]

Thanks

[@iam_mr_rahaman]

Thnx🤗

[@anirbanadhikary8028]

Nice tutorial Sir.

[@sottozen]

Thanks!

[@alaabenrhouma6717]

Very nice dude. Thanks for the cool tutorial :-) Just a small side note, try to lower the background music

[@sottozen]

Thanks, also for the note. I will :)

[@gajanman5982]

good

[@FuzzyNova]

This is the one thing I have been trying to do manually or with other harder much hard concepts in Filmora. But I use the old Filmora not Filmora 9. I don't like Filmora nine. I also have hitfilm. But this right here my GOD. This makes one of the hardest techniques on movie history easy. Damn im sure after effects cost monthly too

[@sottozen]

I am going to add a new tutorial soon but, not here, be sure to visit my personal YT channel: kzbin.info/door/SkTM0tJe1J0pYMbPPg_LVg

[@FuzzyNova]

@@sottozen that would help a lot. What Im trying to do is take a shot I recorded of a grassy field on my property (slightly shaky) and add in a 20 foot mech (which I already have chroma keyed) into the recording. Tracking the shake so the mech stays in place while it's walking is my issue

[@Dragonart666]

Saludos desde Valencia España. Me interesaría saber, como agregaste las sombras.

[@sottozen]

I duplicate the layer and then I made it black using TINT a and a gaussian blur. I scaled down and deformed in order to make it follow the actor. I have to say, itìs not a perfect way to achieve this but.. sometimes, it works quite nice :)

[@maximumblackness]

Awesome Video!! But how did you do the shadows?!? 🤔

[@KangleiMoviesWorld]

Thank you so much.. for such a wonderful video....

[@DisneyPlayhousetv]

How do you add shadows? Do you have a tutorial for that? Please show me.

[@sottozen]

I am going to add a new tutorial soon but, not here, be sure to visit my personal YT channel: kzbin.info/door/SkTM0tJe1J0pYMbPPg_LVg

[@marydavis8012]

Could you explain how you created the shadows for your characters? Thank you!

[@ImageforgeAsia]

I followed your tutorial, thank you so much for putting in the effort to do this! I'm having an issue though where the feet of my subject, don't track well although the grid seems to track perfectly? The feet move off point and the grid stays perfect?

[@sottozen]

Thanks for your kind words. Visit my personal YT channel, I made there few more tuts about this. And I am currently work on one very similar. Maybe you ll find some help. Let me know :)

[@ImageforgeAsia]

@@sottozen Oh what is the link I can't see it?

[@sottozen]

@@ImageforgeAsia kzbin.info/door/SkTM0tJe1J0pYMbPPg_LVg

[@TechnoTechz]

How-to shadow perfectly

[@sumanravada]

Hi Stefano! what if there is a camera movement on the green screen shot (camera rotation). How do we edit the shot?. can you please help me understand or is there any tutorial for that?.thank you

[@sottozen]

Hi, not sure if I understood your question but if you have a camera rotation movement on a green screen scene and you need to track the camera you have to put some "trackers" on your green screen. You can use some tape of slightly different green and make some cross. I may think about making a tutorial about this :)

[@AdrianMalatTrainingDevelopment]

that is a huge darth vader

[@nymoxy]

What camera do you use for your shots?

[@athoisapam3454]

Teach me every thing

[@ranjithgaddhe9818]

can you provide the fotage for practice

[@sottozen]

Sorry I can’t right now. Maybe i will organize this for the next tutorials. You can find many website with green screen footage to download and practice. Good luck with your work and thanks for watching.

[@JanizOfficial]

Very Nice. Is there a chance you can do another one on how to apply the shadows to people?

[@sottozen]

Thanks. If you like to follow my tuts/BTS I now upload them on my personal YT channel

[@Mohamad-Ghneem711]

@@sottozen how add shadwo :)

[@novoros_dance]

you shot a person statically, but in 3D you placed a model of the city with a close-up and at the exit you lost the pixels and the quality of the character. Can you tell me if it is possible to shoot live with the approach and other overflights of the characters in order to connect them in a 3D city?

[@sottozen]

I am not sure I get your problem sorry.

[@slykhajiit2]

What's that shortcut everyone uses to make the effects search bar show up instantly right at 1:12??

[@sottozen]

It's the FX console from VideoCopilot.net It's FREE and it speeds up the searching. You can otherwise go and search manually every effect.

[@slykhajiit2]

@@sottozen Oh wow, video copilot has about everything. Definitely the best plugin programmers. That's why I was having such a hard time trying to find the hotkey or shortcut for that feature, I didn't know it was a plugin. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

[@sottozen]

@@slykhajiit2 You are so welcome :)

[@TravelClast]

pretty cool man ... amazing what you can do with nulla ... sei Italiano?!

[@sottozen]

è dal nulla che tutto sempre inizia :) Grazie di cuore.

[@jackson9180]

how did you make the shadow

[@sottozen]

I made them duplicating the original layers and placing them in the proper way. Not the best way to do it but it worked quite nice on this. If you are interested I can make a mini tutorial about this.

[@ItsNoah]

2:24 How do you typ there? Plsss help!

[@MrEggy-xm9rf]

I wish you include the shadow composition tutorial bro.

[@sottozen]

I am going to add a new tutorial soon but, not here, be sure to visit my personal YT channel: kzbin.info/door/SkTM0tJe1J0pYMbPPg_LVg

[@mike_vahemoubayed8099]

Can this work in after effects cs2

[@kaustubhpaturi4801]

I love the way you included the shadows...super realistic. But, how do we add them!?

[@sottozen]

Thanks. If you read other comments I already answered this question. Also, I invite you to visit my other YT channel, all my BTS and TUTS will be uploaded there. Thanks again for kind words :)

[@kaustubhpaturi4801]

@@sottozen sure! Will check them out!😁✌🏻

[@essencecartoon]

You need to add color grading too. Also you need two more chrome keying tools to handle green spill.

[@OzTheMexican]

Is adding more chrome keying how you would handle different shades of the green due to lighting?

[@essencecartoon]

@@OzTheMexican yes

[@benammi3668]

good job man how u did for shadows?

[@sottozen]

Ben ammi I duplicated and tint black the layer. Then I scaled and deform it to match the perspective as best I can. This method is not always possible, it depends on the movement of the actor and camera. This is why I didn’t talk about it. In this case it worked quite well. The best way would be to have shadow in our green screen footage.

[@SR_PRODUCTIONS]

But how do I do it the opposite. I want to put my real actor in a 3d room and have him tracked properly with the room

[@ygorlopez-aprendatocarpian2177]

Tienes algun curso donde pueda a crear paisajes, para video clip de pianista instrumental, igual hacen The Piano Guys ?

[@sottozen]

No, sorry.

[@66RStudios]

How Did U added Shadows

[@rudramukherjee9979]

How you put shadows of the actors

[@ibnusidik8501]

how to give the shadow

[@sottozen]

I am going to add a new tutorial soon but, not here, be sure to visit my personal YT channel: kzbin.info/door/SkTM0tJe1J0pYMbPPg_LVg

[@crenimrt268]

Salve.. non so ma mi sembra che parlate italiano per caso?! anche se non conosco inglese, vostro tutorial era chiaro! Io per adesso sto praticando green screen con un redattore video semplice, più a vorrei imparare qualcosa più complicato

[@sottozen]

Sono felice ti sia stato utile. Ti invito a visitare anche il mio canale personale, ora tutti i tutorial lì carico la. Buon proseguimento :)

[@crenimrt268]

@@sottozen Аllora ho indovinato! lo capito da vostri nomi) io sono ucraino ma conosco italiano.Se mi inviate link del vostro canale in italiano lo seguiro volontieri!

[@sottozen]

@@crenimrt268 Non ho un canale in Italiano, mi spiace :) Se vuoi ho anche questo di tutorials kzbin.info/door/SkTM0tJe1J0pYMbPPg_LVg

[@ramanjedi]

Watch out for lighting

[@MDREG]

Категорически приветствую!

[@superbonniebrandon7698]

Hey my friend I know this video was 7 months ago but when I press track camera the red circle doesn’t come up?? Only dots do why is that?

[@sottozen]

The red circle is still the same today. If you select the right layer (the one where the tracking has done) and over with your mouse this should appear. Difficult to me understand why it doesn't, try again step by step. Let me know :)

[@superbonniebrandon7698]

sottozen thank you very much man I figured it out!! I appreciate the quick reply it really helped likes and subscribed!!

[@manuart1983]

italianoooo tutto bene

[@Shivanshboom]

how to apply shadow

[@VMTCC_25]

I am so lucky that i have laptop i need just to buy adobe after effects

[@alaabenrhouma6717]

You applied a drop shadow effect for the shadows right ?

[@sottozen]

No, I duplicate the characters layer and tint them black, blurred, scaled and animated the best I can :)

[@alaabenrhouma6717]

@@sottozen very cool :-) i am watching your other vids, nice work man :-)

[@sottozen]

@@alaabenrhouma6717 Thanks man! :)

[@Maher-]

How did you add the shadow for the characters?

[@sottozen]

Maher Alsayid please, read other comments, I already answered that many times :)

[@Maher-]

@@sottozen sorry :D , I saw the tutorial ended and nothing about the shadow so I posted the question, i will check the comments thanks for the reply.

[@parvizabdumatinov9029]

How about shadow ?

[@jamesladesma1877]

How they add shadow plss Toturial

[@sottozen]

I am going to add a new tutorial soon but, not here, be sure to visit my personal YT channel: kzbin.info/door/SkTM0tJe1J0pYMbPPg_LVg

[@FlowmasterVFX]

What about shadow integration?

[@sottozen]

I am going to add a new tutorial soon but, not here, be sure to visit my personal YT channel: kzbin.info/door/SkTM0tJe1J0pYMbPPg_LVg

[@aviavi8156]

How you put the shadow of the charecter????

[@sottozen]

I duplicate the layer. Tint - black. Blur. Scale and rotate to fit the best possible and animate. Not the best way to do it but in this case was working quite nice,

[@roccoallegretti1591]

italiano scommetto

[@nik_dolse5644]

But video clip not available

[@spacepanda3989]

How do you add the shadows?

[@sottozen]

I am going to add a new tutorial soon but, not here, be sure to visit my personal YT channel: kzbin.info/door/SkTM0tJe1J0pYMbPPg_LVg

[@Studios2u]

you didn't explain about the shadows!! hOW TO ADD LIGHTS AND SHADOW CATCHER?

[@joaquinperalba1624]

Thanks, you forgot to explain how to create the shadows of the individuals….

[@amtrollepuller1107]

How to add shadow..

[@sottozen]

I am going to add a new tutorial soon but, not here, be sure to visit my personal YT channel: kzbin.info/door/SkTM0tJe1J0pYMbPPg_LVg

[@franciscohernandezmarzal3925]

What about the shadows?

[@sottozen]

I am going to add a new tutorial soon but, not here, be sure to visit my personal YT channel: kzbin.info/door/SkTM0tJe1J0pYMbPPg_LVg

[@_xxsimoxz_7310]

Sei italiano. Si sente lontano un miglio 😂😂😂

[@sottozen]

Senza dubbio :)

[@_xxsimoxz_7310]

sottozen 😂😂😂

[@abhiramyekkala7942]

Lol i came because of the nerf gun😂😂

[@afaqahmed2688]

You didn't tell how to add shadows..? which is present in the final footage

[@sottozen]

Afaq Ahmed yep. That’s not always easy and possible. I duplicate the layer, tint it black and scale in the best way I can. In this example was working quite nice but, as I said, it’s not a way I would suggest. Best way should be have a good green screen footage with shadow.

[@andreysurkov9594]

how you make shadow under human?

[@sottozen]

I am going to add a new tutorial soon but, not here, be sure to visit my personal YT channel: kzbin.info/door/SkTM0tJe1J0pYMbPPg_LVg

[@adxdits803]

Background...

[@amriteshgyan7947]

How to add shadow..?? Can u do a tutorial..

[@sottozen]

Hey, a better way is to try to have a real shadow from the green screen scene. When it's not possible you can try to fix somehow duplicating and scaling the same layer. I applied a tint effect to it to make it black and then I blurred and add some perspective. I was lucky in this case, many times it doesn't work though.

[@sottozen]

I am going to add a new tutorial soon but, not here, be sure to visit my personal YT channel: kzbin.info/door/SkTM0tJe1J0pYMbPPg_LVg

[@EFZCI]

like chi è italiano

[@kamilyavuz3180]

I'm still so confused about tracking :(

[@LyricsMood-xj5es]

Ciao italianiiii

[@sottozen]

Lyrics Mood ciaooooo :)))))

[@LyricsMood-xj5es]

@@sottozen vi ho conosciuto oggi e mi sono già bruciato un botto di tutorial. Congratulazioni, siete davvero professionali e spiegate molto bene. Domani provo a fare qualcosa con il green screen. Grazie ancoraa

[@sottozen]

Lyrics Mood mi fa davvero piacere. Grazie a te per le gentili parole. Danno buona energia :)

[@hanfilmart]

Where is shadows?

[@pretarela2426]

How can i do this on smartphone?

[@sottozen]

I really don't know but.. not easy tweak details without a big screen I am afraid

[@pretarela2426]

@@sottozen hahaha, thank you

[@umadevi4770]

Shadow tutorial

[@sottozen]

I am going to add a new tutorial soon but, not here, be sure to visit my personal YT channel: kzbin.info/door/SkTM0tJe1J0pYMbPPg_LVg