How to add digital SET EXTENSIONS to miniatures | After Effects & Photoshop Tutorial

[@Kriscoart]

Just discovered your channel and wow awesome work!

[@jumannemangwala3823]

I would like to do this work but I need trainer kriscoart

[@OakViewFilms]

Amazing tutorial! I'm a filmmaker intending on making an adventure-fantasy series, and I had planned to use miniatures to give it a sorta retro feel, akin to the original SW trilogy. This tutorial is a lifesaver!

[@SteveRamsdenYoutube]

Cool, give it a try :)

[@badboystuff7850]

Oakview Films SAAAAAME DUDE!

[@Muzical-Man]

Hope it goes well.

[@mypicturesbox]

Whenever I see your tutorials I get even more excited to create vfx stuff 🙌🏽

[@HeroDestrin]

SAAAAME

[@ricardoabreu4997]

Me too. Unfortunately AE is paid

[@babaksobhani1307]

One of the methodes for this kind of trick is to filming your footage in high frame rate and when you try to use them in your composition in after effects make them slow and this trick give your scen natural filling that is a big train or big object that is moving around in your scene. One an other thing about your shot is you have to give your train a powerful smoke .sorry about my english .

[@vaudevillian7]

That’s what I thought too, although I’m no expert on the specifics. What frame rate would you film at, is their a scale ratio based on the scale of the model at all or some other way for calculating this? Thanks!

[@MichaelSavidgeStoryteller]

Yay miniature models! Never heard of the "Rolling Road" / "Rolling Sky" effect @6:08 before; it's an awesome tidbit that I could easily see being useful in other areas/effects. One compositing trick the Miniatures team for Peter Jackson's King Kong used to add realism was run multiple passes of the same shot with the same camera movement but in various lighting conditions (e.g., a take with only the key/fill light, one with only the practical lights lit, etc.) I don't know if or how this would be possible in a low-budget situation. Still, if you ever get a second chance at shooting miniature models, it may be worth a try!

[@euansmith3699]

The mobile phone tracking shot of the intercity train, looked great. The whole presentation was clear and informative. Choo! Choo! 😍😎

[@XTheCat]

The stuff you can make your limited recourses is truly incredible.

[@kabadahija]

You don't have to export Photoshop layers separately. Just import the PSD in After Effects and choose "Import - as composition" in the dropdown and voila! This is also awesome for example if you have to go back to PS and change something in a layer, you don't have to reimport it - it will automatically update all changes you make in the PSD.

[@SteveRamsdenYoutube]

Yes very good point, this method works well too

[@evietech7958]

I Didn’t expect that you shoot only in miniature objects.looks real when it comes to movie.

[@changleon7441]

That train roto gives me chills

[@RoPanuganti]

This is a really cool tutorial, you've combined a ton of smaller effects that are worth learning to recreate such a classic technique! I wonder if any digital compositing tools can help "sell" the miniature as real better - additional lighting, haze, light wrapping etc?

[@SteveRamsdenYoutube]

I'm sure more tricks could definitely help sell the miniature. I was thinking of adding a light on the front of the engine, but it didn't look great in the end so I didn't bother. Give it a go!

[@c0deoustech]

Great video! Just a tip tho: layers from PSD files can be dynamically imported straight into After Effects - no need to export multiple JPEGs

[@digimaks]

Cool tutorial-experiment! LOL with disaster idea of rotoscoping the bridge and elements in the BG! I would of added 2 things- 1) slow down the footage, so any slight wobble/movements on the model become more relevant for its scale. And 2) add RSMB- reel smart motion blur for entire shot- it helps blend the motion blur of existing shot with fake backgroudn and foreground.

[@stevedunningduckinggiraffe6296]

Perfect! I've just ordered my Runcam 4k for my model railway filming and thought green screen and then saw this! Thanks its great! Slow moving sky is a great tip.

[@Hellhamster]

Wish i could get my hands on the software

[@Jeroen_Ech]

Looks really good. One nit-pick: stars and the moon shouldn't move as long as the camera doesn't rotate.

[@Colaaah]

Not true! I reality with the camera following along side the train, but further back and not moving as quick like you see here, it's actually not the moon and the stars that you see moving, it's actually the mountains that are much, much closer moving in front making it look like the moon and stars are moving. I hope you follow that.

[@Jeroen_Ech]

@@Colaaah with the incredible distance of the moon and stars, the sky wouldn't move more than a pixel. So virtually no movement. Anyways, my mommy told me not to get into arguments on the internet. So have a nice day.

[@disrespecc9678]

The moon and stars do move in real life, every 0.48km or 0.36m.

[@reezlaw]

@@disrespecc9678 in this shot the movement would be so microscopic that it would be best to show them as static

[@Bruh-zx2mc]

@@disrespecc9678 lol no, that's not how parallax works.

[@mypicturesbox]

Precise Tracker and Masks are just SO satisfying

[@SteveRamsdenYoutube]

Right?! 😂

[@TechDiveAVCLUB]

That timeline. I felt that.

[@therealmenaze]

Excellent and thank you , probably the first tutorial I have seen that has taken models to vfx more into depth , please do more

[@prudviraj384]

I didn't know you but I was searching for you. Thanks for your video.

[@mihrfaaxciaphalanx298]

NAILED IT!!!!

[@PercuSoundSystem]

Very very beautiful job friend !!! Very interesting.

[@SteveRamsdenYoutube]

Thank you very much

[@WisebuyIsrael]

Very good dude. i would have added forced motion blur to the foreground to really sell the speed of the camera movement. i really like the stuff you make

[@jrsmoots]

Great info! I do composite shots of our Christmas village each year. This year I think I will try moving the camera and/or following the HO Scale cable car. Thanks for posting this vid!

[@simonirvinlmoo6633]

my head hurts but goddamnit THATS WAY TOO GOOD

[@vinhdo1609]

Thanks to this channel. im now being approaching more to advanced techniques.

[@craftknife]

*Awesome Man👏🔥btw..which software is best to do this?*

[@marianarodgar9580]

Whoa! This is awesome! Thank you for the tips. Great job 🤩

[@JONOVID]

by making your set night-time you need to now add railway lighting, the moon casting shadows. its a clear moonlit night! steam trains have pulses of steam coming out the side. light of drivers cab, light of windows looking inside the railway passenger cars. you need to add CG light box's inside the railcars so illuminated interior looks three dimensional from the moving windows. railway signaling house also has an illuminated interior. railway platform lighting. casting shadows.

[@b9y]

This is EXACTLY what I was thinking about after seeing another miniature tutorial and thinking "Wow, I'd love to do a model railway".

[@Basit_Mushtaq_Art]

You are amazing sir

[@RobVanElven]

Nice work and beautifully explained. 🏆💪

[@RickyDownhillRDH]

Wow, that was a lot of detailed work. Well done!!

[@gpla-ster9032]

Looks impressive.

[@darealliam4421]

If you shoot footage of a model train for a night time scene check if it has passenger coaches. If it does then light them up when editing because the people inside need to see

[@yggdraproduction]

great tutorial, great for distant shots. thanks good job....again

[@EnDuelouenDuo]

Great work! I loved it! Thank you!

[@AnanthakumarBalakrishnan]

Very nice job but if there is head lights and tail lights for the train it will be cool👍

[@satori1312]

I enjoyed this very much indeed!

[@siva-qj9cq]

Very useful one man keep going my support always there

[@jfmezei]

Moving to nightime would also require you light every window in the train. Would it require you track each window separately so you can add a mask to each, or could you track only one window and add multiple masks to the null object to light up each window wth correct position offeset from the tracked point ? (I have worked with camera tracking and inverted mnasks where you have a limit of 1 mask so you have to be creative with how the mask morphs when a second object walks into the scene which needs to be masked.

[@voronOsphere]

I love this stuff!!!! Thanks!

[@Newyorkhoje]

Another great tutorial! Thanks!!

[@mypicturesbox]

Love your tutorials dude!

[@hazonku]

I wouldn't have included the moon in the shot as the light is clearly coming from higher up but all in all it's a really good shot. I can't even imagine how long it took to mask that bridge trestle out.

[@AllThingsFilm1]

Awesome tutorial. Thanks.

[@halloweenlisteningparty]

That was great!!

[@eazyvfx7360]

Love it dude!! you are awesome!!

[@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester]

Good work. Thank you.

[@mrjacob1000]

I had an idea I have no idea if it'll really work but it's more like an experiment feeling a movie with no set at all but with only miniatures and green or blue screening what I mean is filming the actors interacting either green or blue painted objects on a sound stage or studio and overlapping that with the miniature set so that way it looks like the characters are actually interacting with some of the objects

[@vicsyryn4758]

Nice video, keep up the good work!

[@4thwalltvandfilm]

Super cool.

[@valeriofastidio]

You’ve given me some great ideas! Thank you soooo much!

[@AlexanderSauerPlaysWithHeroJr]

Cool ..thanks ..I am impressed with current possibilities. I think the last time i even used AE was on a early petum2 comp XP i think.. and omg it took forever to do anything and kind of gave up on the idea.. just started making stuff but gave up on making my own set for my muppets and scifi stuff... I figured if i had to do everything myself including building and editing and animating...it would take so long like trying tpo create a 3d game by yourself. by the time you are done its obsolete and outdated...unless its sooo good it only will end up in a cult scene. But seeing you vids now.. and the prcessing power available on home computers..Hmmmm... maybe time to go beyond the known... and revisit an old dream and make it come true after all .. SO yeah .. inspiring .. Thanks man!.. Cheers

[@AlmightyCRJ]

There were actually a rolling 'sky'/background shots in Thomas the Tank Engine. Any running shot of the face, & the cab interiors. Director having worked on Captain Scarlet would've known the technique.

[@Brooklyn_T_Guy]

considering model train bounce around a bit imagine a large G scale model, that would be amazing.

[@AzztroBoy]

Awesome!!!

[@davidheadonvisualsandsound]

Great chanel! I use Blender and need to see the Adobe side of things

[@alinalevytska6430]

amazing!

[@FlimmerBob]

Nice tutorial, wanna recreate it right now, but I dont have any idea...

[@reezlaw]

Also filming at a higher frame rate and then slowing it down helps with scale

[@raufgenius2838]

That's so amazing video

[@cybr_4027]

just a tip: the moon should be still in the frame on a separate layer, just like when we are driving past it and it looks like its following us. Does that make sense?

[@melchestermodelrailway]

Not come across the camera slider before/ but it seems like a really useful tool (at the moment I place my camera on a box, and slide it along by hand), are they limited in length, or could you film a much longer run? this has been a problem I've had with filming my model railway.

[@SteveRamsdenYoutube]

Yes, they are very useful but usually limited to about 1m in length. One trick I've use din the past is to actually put a very small small camera (such as a phone or a gopro) on a wagon on the track next to the train and push it along beside it! That can be a fun thing to try

[@DerpyPossum]

maybe i should try that last one with some footage of a larger scale model locomotive.

[@ziontech1586]

Wow good job 👍👏 done, you have a new subscriber with this video. I'm inn...

[@davidgeister]

Bravo!!!!

[@elarcadenoah9000]

do you have a video how to use an animated mockup in streaming?

[@ts.adnansalleh1308]

Awesome

[@mannanpathan3090]

Love from India 😍😍

[@robertwesterfield3454]

Thanks!

[@TheNadiiiii]

Blesss Youuu

[@thedirectorcompany]

Gold!

[@mrskitzo1179]

You Da Man

[@KBENTERTAINMENTMEDIA]

Best video...

[@beachcomberbob3496]

I would suggest you research real locomotives moving at speed (plenty on KZbin) to get the smoke effects right.

[@toasega]

Could you do this with Blender and Gimp? (for those of us who can't literally afford After Effects or Photoshop and are using a laptop so old that we can't close the screen without the layers coming apart and needing to snap everything back together by hand)

[@destinofinal2024]

Thanks bro💪🏽

[@LoneAdventurer730]

Nice ❤️😍

[@fiveoneecho]

For a night sky, you wouldn't want it to move at all in the background since you are seeing into space and the camera is hardly moving compared to the moon and might as well be stationary compared to the stars. You would want to move the clouds on a separate layer just like a day sky, however.

[@masguapoako]

I got to do that with my trains, polar express effects

[@bryanpitcherfilms]

🤪👍🏼🤪👍🏼🤪 Awesome!

[@الوتر-ر2م]

good ♥️

[@cobnut6662]

You should do morphing affect

[@soomaalicourses]

I enjoyed it but the proportion is not right is there any effects that can correct proportion of small objects

[@TinColourProductionhorror]

Very nice sir.i want to learn how to make tsunami in miniature.please help.

[@drewup7456]

Subbed!

[@Bassbas81]

What kind of camera do you have?

[@ArieMoersas]

good

[@anandanand5007]

Thnx

[@Lamo679.]

Even if you did have your Green Screen the BR Green that the model is wearing you would have probably caused it so you still have to do the masking

[@arsipasda6428]

I dont know why, but i get Thomas series vibe. I think what will hapen if you are the editor for the series at that time and with that same equipment.

[@mrstratau6513]

interesting.

[@_galterius]

I was wondering, many train models use green paint, it's not the same color as a green screen but won't it be a problem ?

[@SteveRamsdenYoutube]

True, it could be a little tricker. If so, use a blue screen and it will work just as well!

[@_galterius]

@@SteveRamsdenKZbin yea that could do it ! I will try that next time I see my grandpa !

[@MRGAMER-kf3vs]

Amazing

[@TheRailwayGuy175]

If Thomas & Friends is still using models, they will use this effect which cut down budget.

[@defacube]

If you listen closely, you will see that his microphone is the best.

[@sagelight7777]

It's great but the moon is a mistake as it's in the wrong place. The train is being lit from the front. I bet it would look better without the moon image. Very inventive though

[@clonkex]

5:50 The sky shouldn't be moving at all. Unless your camera is moving extremely quickly or rotating, the sky should appear to be static.

[@anujburagohain1093]

Waw