Loki VFX for Beginners using Adobe After Effects

1. Introduction: This effect we will create right now. Hi, I'm Jake and I am motion designer. I want to introduce you to After Effects in a way in which I've started, you could ask yourself, why should I learn After Effects? First of all? Because it's fun to be able to make visual effects at home. But also, you can keep in mind that most studios, TV channels, YouTube channels, promos, interests, logo animation and other kinds of animations are made using After Effects. This is why I invite you to learn after effects with me while heavy and recreating cool effects. And then same time getting familiar with the software. This is why it's not a problem. If you are a beginner and don't know anything about After Effects, I still can teach you how to make this effect with 0 skills will go through basics and we'll work our way through it. I'll read your comments and will improve my future classes. I'll be happy to get your feedback with After Effects. You can do lots of things. You can even become next, Zach King or create your own projects, screed promos, logos and more. Possibilities are endless. I'll be happy to see you in my class as also your results after following all the steps. So let's get started. 2. Rotoscoping or Keying Footage: As you can see, I'm using Adobe After Effects 2020. But for this effect, any version of After Effects will do fine. Also, I'm using a standard layout if for some reason you cannot see, for example, this effects and presets panel or any of the other panels. You can go to Window and enable it from here or example character, character. So let's import our footage to start working on this effect, we can just left mouse double-click here or go to file, import file to import our footage. This footage is available in the resource tab to this class. So you can download it and EBRD into your project. So let's click Import. In this quick video, I'm going to show you how you can run a stop yourself from your footage. So let's take this blue screen. Flourish, lead mouse, click and drag to this icon here or here or here on timeline to create new composition and just release it if you want to use your own flourish, it would be nice if you would film yourself against a chroma key like this blue screen or green screen. And just remember before filming, do not wear anything in your clothes which meshes with the your green or blue screen because it will not allow you to key out yourself properly. So here we had two choices. First choice, if you had your green screen or rule stream like mine, you can just go to effects and presets and type word key. And here you can just choose this preset delight Advanced Spill Suppressor, and drag onto your footage. But don't be discouraged if you don't have green screen or a blue screen a bit later, I'm going to show you how you can use Fanny foolish, which you have. So in case of key out, you need to select with this speaker just left mouse click here and choose the color in here and string gain, you can just make sure to remove all the color like this. We can also click here to see our final result or status to see better what we are carrying out, our goal is to have black background and you should be completely white. So to achieve that, you need to go to screen the madly here to open and reduce this flip Y2, really low value to get closer to this whites look, let's change the final result to see our final result. And with this Advanced Spill Suppressor, we can remove other parts of the color. From my experience, I am getting better results in intermediate results. So let's change to intermediate because you can see we don't have any issues with the color. And if we click on this icon here, you can see the Alpha Matte, basically it represents the transparent parts. But now as you can see it, we need to get rid of this part. So we can choose this pen tool, leftmost ligands and left mouse-like here, and then another leftmost click and drag to create this kind of BCA and continue with this semi sure that your mass is inside of this transparent part like this. You don't want to go here. And finally click on this starting point to close the mask. So with this mask, we are telling the software part we want to keep. So this is how easily you can just yell out yourself from the footage. But let's imagine that you don't have this green or blue screen. So let's select these four effects and press Delete. Let's also delete this mask. I'm pressing M to see my mask, so let's deleted. So in this case you would want to select your footage and left mouse double-click on it, it will open and layer mode. In this mode you can draw something or Radha SCOP yourself. In our case, we want to write a stop ourselves. Just click on this Roto Brush Tool here, left mouse click on it and start drawing on yourself like this. Just left mouse click and drag to show the software what do you want to keep? You can also hold Control on keyboard and left mouse click and drag to the left or to the right to change this paintbrush. So let's hold Control and drag to the left to make it smaller. And if we hold Alt key on a keyboard and a left mouse click, we can just deselect this part because we don't want to have it. So this is pretty decent mask. We can also include this header here and here, and then just click here to track this mask frame-by-frame. And with each frame, just make sure that your mask doesn't go anywhere, in our case is pretty easy mask, so I'm going to press Play. So this process would be faster tract to the end. Now we can just flick here leftmost layer and drag to this point. This point represents where we created our mass. And now we can just move this cursor to the star. It will start tracking backwards. So once this process is complete, you just need to make sure that your mask looking good. And once you're happy with your rotoscoping, you need to click on this freeze button. It will save your progress. And once this freeze process is complete, we can just exit this layer mode just by going to this composition mode. So now as you can see, we basically getting the same kind of result. And let me quickly show you how you can render this footage with transparent background. So what do you need to do is to go to Composition and choose to Render Queue here or go to a lossless and change to AV or QuickTime both works great. Then in video output, you want to change it to RGB plus Alpha, which means that it will save all our RGB value as well as our transparency value. And finally, I don't have any audio, so I can set it to off and click. Okay, and by clicking here, you are choosing where you want to save your psi already saved mine. It's raw footage, which also available in resource step to this class. And click Save and click Render, and you'll have your own footage to work with. So let's go to the next video. 3. Basic Disappearing Animation: So if you skipped previous video, how to wrote a scope or key out yourself. Let's start from the scratch. Basically, I'm using standard layout. I'm using Adobe After Effects to toss and 20, but you can use any version of After Effects and this effect will work fine. And if you don't see any of these panels, you just need to go to Window and enable it from hero, like effects and presets and effects and presets. So to import our footage, which I provided in this class, you need to leftmost double-click here and just select all of this foolish, besides this blue screen footage, because this video I've used in previous video to show how you can run a scarp or gout your flourish. Let's select all of these videos and click imports on how to create new composition and start work with it. We need to select this Radha flourish and drop it here or here, or on this icon to create new composition. So as you can see, I have a flourish of myself, cutouts like this. If you want, you can film yourself like this to have your effect on yourself, but make sure that your final pose is similar to mine. It will be best if you are, we'll copy this kind of motion so you can start wherever you want, but you need to end up with this kind of spread in arms composition is from hedge or waist high, because luckily, I already pre-made sparks for you. You wouldn't have to create it from the start. So we are going to use these kinds of sparks and also these kind of sparks and as you can see its end up with this kind of posts of your hands. If you do not use my own footage, enemy shorter film, you're foolish, similar to mine and it will work great. So let's also add our background, this BG layer, just like mouse click and drag it here below. So in this part of the class, we are going to generate this empty hole in our body. And for more dramatic effect, I think it looks cool when it's generated from the center and end up on our eyes. So for this, we want to create two kinds of masks. First one will be for our body, and second one will be for our head. This time coarser by left mouse clicking and dragging, we want to find the point where we are going to disappear or something like this, then we can go to Layer out or trace. It will create a mask for us, and it will use Alpha channel to create our mass, as you can see, which is perfectly around ourselves. With this preview button, you can see how your mask look in. So if you want to change some of these values, you can already see how it's going too low. Value of 3 looks great. And we'd experimented of these values. I wind up with these numbers, which gets me a pretty decent results. Make sure that you're using current frame. It means that it will create a mess from this frame and not from beginning or all area. And also let's uncheck this box because we want to apply this mask nuts to the new layer, but to this layer itself and click Okay, now you can see we have our mask on ourselves. So if we press M on keyboard, we can see our mask. If we set it to subtract, it will delete ourselves, but we can also open properties of this mask. So let's click here to see all the properties. And if we change this mask expansion, you can clearly see what we are going to use it for. So let's lower this value to make this whole completely disappear. In my case, it's minus 300. But if you are using your own flourish, this value could be different. We can also go here to delete this keyframe because we don't want it, but we want to create a keyframe for mask expansion. So let's click on this stopwatch to create a keyframe. As you can see, we've created a key-frame. Key-frame is basically the point in time. We should remember the value of certain property. So in this case, this keyframe, remember this value of this property is used to create an animation. So if we drag this keyframe here, it means that at two seconds of this video, it will stay on value 300. And about here at five seconds, if I will change this value to, let's say 55, like this, it already creates new keyframe, as you can see. And between these keyframes, it will change from 55 to 300, which we said it here. So if we scroll here, you can see that this value changes. And also you can see that we've created an animation. So this is how you can easily create this kind of animation. Let's make sure that this animation starts around 1 second and maybe ends about here at five seconds. So if we deselect any of the layers, we can see that we have this kind of animation. And as you remember, I wanted more dramatic effect where it's ended up on our eyes. So for this, we want to duplicate this layer, just like this layer and press Control D on keyboard, it creates a new copy and we can press M to see the mask which also is copied. But in this case we don't want to have this mask. So let's select it and press Delete. Let's close this here and disable this layer below. We can also rename our layers so it would be easier to navigate. So let's call it bottom part, and this will be top part rename our layers. You need to let mouse-click on it, select it and press return on keyboard to rename it, I'll call it top part. So let's make sure that our animation ends up on our eyes. So for this, we want to select our top part and select this pen tool. With this pen tool, we can create our custom masks. So leftmost like here, and then here, and leftmost click and drag. And this way you can see that you can read this kind of BCA curve. And we want to create this kind of oval around our eyes. Cyclic here. Jumps so close to the mask. So now we have only our eyes. So let's enable our body here by clicking here on this eyeball to enable this bottom layer. And if we open this mask, we can change this expansion to make sure that we have our head like this. I will go even further and change this value to maybe 225, which will include our name once again on your footage, this value could be different, but if you're using the same footage as I do, you just can't copy this value. Let's create a keyframe because we want to animate this as well. So click on this stopwatch to create a keyframe. Let's make sure that we are studying this animation about here, maybe at three seconds time. You can see here two seconds and 23 frames and about here at six seconds. Let's finish this animation. So we want to decrease this expansion, as you can see, it will create this kind of animation. So make sure that you are getting into this invisible point where we cannot see anything, but don't go overboard like this because it will speed up animation which we don't want. We just want to go to the edge where it's just about to disappear. And once it's disappearing, you need to set this value unless scroll through with this time cursor. And what we can do is to select the Selection Tool and LACMA slick on one of the points. In this case, we can scroll through and change position to make sure that this animation will end up on our eyes like this. Just make sure to double-click on one of the points and then you'll be able to move it down. So now if you press on numpad, you can see this preview and this is basically the core or our effect. And the next video, I'm going to show you how to create a more roughened edge to add more interested in look to this effect. 4. Stylizing the Edges: So now let's read more interesting edge to this effect. We want to duplicate these both layers. Just select one of them, hold control and select other one, and then press Control D to duplicate it. We can set it below like this. And for now, let's disable these two top layers. So maybe let's also disabled this top 12 to see only one layer and to see better what is going on with this layer. So first of all, I want to apply an effect called rough edges. If you don't see this effects and presets panel, you can enable it from here, Window Effects and Presets type here, roughen edges. Let me just click and drag to our bottom part two, if we increase the border of this effect later 36, we can see this effect already working. Basically border is our amount. If we increase as we get more of roughen edges, but I'll keep at 36. And also I want to change the scale. If we increase the scale, we can see that we have less of these edges. And let's maybe change h type to spike you because it's much more interesting effect. And now we can change the scale and you can set any value which you would like. I want to have spiky kind of effect by the way, you can zoom in and zoom out using scroll on the wheel. Let's say 230 looks good. You can also change the evolution. In this case you just changing the pattern of this effect. I'll leave it at 0. But now we can see the problem. We want to have rough edges on inside, but we don't want it to affect our outside. So what we can do, we can select our bottom bar, press M on keyboard to see RMS and duplicate it. Just press Control D to duplicate. So to understand this technique better, Let's set both masks to nonane. Let's start with the first messed with the first mask we want to set it to add, which means that it will show only the additive part of this mask. So basically we had this animation of the expansion, as you remember here, which expands from the center outwards like this. And now we've duplicated dismissed again. And if we dropped down here, see this mask expansion, we can see the same animation. And if we set this second masks to subtract, it will cancel this animation. But if we select these keyframes and move it further like this, it will start a bit later, which means that we have this same kind of animation from center outwards. But first mask is additive, is creates, a second mask is subtracting. So it's greed this kind of edges. So we want to isolate only this kind of shock wave if we enable this bottom part. And move these keyframes a bit to the left. Just select all of them and move to the left. We can synchronize with our previous animation. And now we get an, as a result, our cells and these roughen edges effect, which looks more organic and more interesting to see our effect better, let's disable this bottom part for now. So we would see all of our shock wave effect. It's kinda too thick for my taste. So I am going to set it these keyframes, a bit more types together. So basically if you're going to scroll here and all the move these keyframes, you can adjust how thick this kind of shape will be. Now let's work on this top part here. So let's enable it and disabled this bottom part. So here we are going to use same kind of technique. So let's repeat it. Let's press M. We can see our mass, and now we can just press Control D on keyboard to duplicate this mask and set it to subtract exactly the same wish we did to this layer here, then we can select our layer and we have really cool shortcut. If we press U on keyboard, it will show only our key frames of animation. And this time we want to select these bottom keyframes and move it to the left because we have invert type of animation lists. Look at this 11 more time. You can see this outwards animation. It goes from the center to the outwards. And in this case, we have inverse animation. It goes from outwards, inwards. So this is why we are changing these keyframes not to the right but to the left. To get this kind of animation, Let's maybe select these keyframes and move it a bit further and enable this bottom part. So basically we want to roughly connect these both animations. Let's select this bottom part and copy this roughen edges effect. Just press control C to copy. And so they just stop part and press Control V to paste it again, this kind of rough and edges effect on our face. Also, we can customize this roughen edges just by eight and drop shadow effect. This is cool trick. If you click on it and drop it before roughen edges, it will add a bit of dimension to this effect. So here we can set a policy to 35 because we want to have it setup. If we zoom in closer, we can see that it will work only here. Distance I'm going to set to 45 to see it better hand softness, Let's set it to 100. So now if we zoom out, we can kind of get this 3D kind of field. It is animation. And finally, let's also happy this drop shadow effect press Control C and paste it to this top part, pressed Control V and also said it before, roughen edges to apply this effect on top part of ourselves. Let's select these both layers and go to Layer pre-compose or Control Shift C. And let's call it spiky edges and click. Okay, and if we enable this top part, we can see it, this kind of effect which already looks pretty cool. Don't worry about these parts here because we will have a lot of glow and sparks which will cover all imperfections. Well done. In the next video, we will add some glow to these edges. I'll see you in the next video. 5. Colorizing Edges: Now let's add some glow to our edge. We need to duplicate our spiky edges. Just select it and press Control D to duplicate it and select this bottom one. And let's move it further like this, like three frames further. Now we want to apply an effect called curves and apply it to this layer below. With discourse effect, we want to add this kind of load edge effect. So let's set it really high like this. By the way, if you don't know how fast you want your animation to be, which we've created here with these keyframes. You can also change it at anytime, but best way to know properly how fast they should go is just to apply some of these sparse like this bottom sparks. Just drop it here and make sure that your effect will be in time with the sparse. Then as you can see, it looks just great. But let's not go ahead of ourselves and let's work on these edges. We can apply tint effect because we don't want any kind of weird colors. It will make it just black and white. And with another course effect, we can apply any kind of colors. So to see this effect beta, we want to apply a glow effect. So type it here, glow and use this stylized low here, we can set our radius to 46 so we will see it better. It already, it looks pretty cool. And let's change this intensity to 2.7. And now with this course effect which we before, we can add any kind of colors. So in my original example, which I've showed in preview, it looked like fire. But let me show you that you can change to any kind of colors, which you can only think of. For example, let's add some blue and you can already see that we introduced in some blue into our effects. We can also add some red. And if we go to green color, we can increase some green and decrease that here or even create this weird curve of green. And if we just change this first curve, we can see that we introduced in multiple kinds of colors. In case if you want to have more like a rainbow kind of load, we can even add some vibrance effect to this spiky edges, which is below and increase vibrance. Let's set it to 100 to get even more color sand maybe increased a bit of saturation to 35. In this case, we getting as much color as we can possibly can get. We can even add another glow, stylized low, and drop it below. And with this second law, you can just change the radius, so have it more of it and it would be more visible. So change the radius and maybe increase a bit of intensity if you want to see even better, you can also change this glow threshold, which will introduce more colors and a bit of contrast. So in this way, you can change to any kind of colors and not just one. But if you want more simple kind of look, you can just add Tritone effect. Just type it here, tritone and said it below. And with this mid-tones, you can just change to one of the colors which you live. So I'm going to set it to reddish so it will resemble the look which I've showed in the preview. But don't forget, if you turn off this Tritone effect, you can always create these kind of interesting colors using curves in case if you want more colorful look. But for this lesson, I'm going to show you how I've created this more kind of fire log. And in this video, let's add some dimension like we are barely can see the back part of myself. See you in the next video. 6. Adding Fire Look: So now let's add some back part of myself is pretty easy to do, just like this spike edges wishes on top, as you can see, it doesn't have any effects, which is perfect for us and press Control D to duplicate it and move it here below, we can even rename it rests Enter or Return on my keyboard and add word back so we would know it's back part to see it. We want to just move this layer in time like this. And now as you can see, we're starting to introduce this back part of ourselves. Just let's add some cursor effects and effects and presets here let's add to our back and let's make it a lot more darker like this. So if I will disable this layer, you can see that we introduced in our bag part, which gives this illusion like it's three-dimensional. And even to increase this kind of effect, we can select this spiky edges effect, which has all of these laws and just press Control D to duplicate it. And let's put it back. I mean dropped below like this. Let's also rename it and call it back glow. And let's also move it further so we will start introducing this one. And also we can change in tritone and different kind of color if you want to introduce more colors to it, Let's set it to orange kind of colors. So we would have some variation in the colors. Don't forget, if you will select this spiky edges back glow layer, you can just scroll up. And with this girl, you can change the intensity of this load and also introduce more color as well as with this spiky edges effect, let's also call it glow, so it would be easier to find. And also if we will change this curve in the first curve effect, it will introduce more color. So if we will press on numpad, we can see our preview is again, see it already. It looks pretty cool. What we want to do is to speed up this animation of Beckman because we don't want to see it so much. So let's select these both back one layers and right mouse click ahead and go to time, time stretch. And let's change it to an IT tool to make it a bit faster and click, Okay, so you can see it already finishes faster, which exactly what we want. And by the way, let me show you a quick little preset how to create a more kind of fire load. We can just disable this Tritone effect and this spiky edges bag low and change discouraged to a preset which I've used to create more finally, kind of law. So what you need to do is store a change here at channels to read and set it like this. Just copy this curve, then go to green shell. Let's also be here, which make it solo to see only what we are working on. And finally here at the blue channel, we want to set it lower, lake, a lot lower like this and create another point here and move it here. And finally, an RGB channel. We want to set lower and increase in shadows. So basically with this setup of these curves, you can get these kind of fire. So you would not only get this one kind of color, but the range of the fire kind of low. Let's un-solo this. And as you can see now inside we can even get yellow, red, and orange, which looks much more interesting. And in the next video, I'm gonna show you how to add the sparks themselves to sell this look even better. I'll see you there. 7. Adding Sparks: Now we want to select the Selection Tool and click here to go to the project. And let's add some sparks. I'm going to drag and drop this button sparks here on top. And let's time it. Well, just drag it here to make sure that they are coming just about this edge. We can set it to Screen so they will be brighter. We can also add an effect called CC force, motion blur on top of this, button sparks and such shutter angle to 450 and samples, let's increase to 40. In this case, it will look like it has a bit of motion blur as well as increases the amount of these sparks. So let's add some curves with this course affect an Alpha channel here and we can increase the visibility and now we can add some blue to sell this effect even better. So it shows this stylized low, low radius. Let's set it to a 46 and let's increase the density 2.7. And you can play around with this low threshold to see which kind of colors you like bass, I will add a bit of reddish kind of colors and maybe stay at 80. It will introduce some red and yellow kind of colors, but it must again, if you will, add some Tritone effect, you can completely change the color of the sparks to any colors which you want. I'm going to use original colors. And if you scroll through this timeline, you can see that we have these cool sparks, but we don't actually have the sparse on our head. I've decided to create these parts separately in case if you want to have more dramatic law and if you would want to add is separately. So let's edit these top sparks here. Also set it to Screen. We can copy all of these effects from this bottom sparks your select, press Control a on keyboard to select all of these effects and press control C to copy, go to top sparse and Control V to paste. And let's move it here, this layer to the right to time it well, so it's also should be on the edges of our mask. So once you've mentioned these two sparks layers, you can just select both of them top sparse and borrows parks and go to layer pre-compose, which means basically to make these two layers into one. So let's call it maybe shooting sparks and click OK has set its mode to screen. So it will be brighter and you can even press Control D to duplicate it. It makes it even brighter. And if you want to increase amount of it, you can just drag a bit like this and you will get a lot more sparks. But in my case I leave it as this. And finally, we've missed in two parts. First part that this effect is going on, but we don't have anything inside this is why I've created sparse stay, which basically it looks like atoms from our body and we will add them in the next video. 8. Finalizing the Look: Just like this bottom sparse stay and drop it just above this back layer like this. We also want to time it well to see it better, just disable these shooting sparks by clicking here on eyeballs. So now we have this inside matter which disappearing. We can also set it to Screen. And let's maybe add some low. We can go to this low here on top and select this glow and press control C to copy and go here to bottom sparks stay and press Control V to paste it. But we can add a bit more of effects to make it look like here was some kind of matters. So let's duplicate this button, spark stay, press Control D. Let's type it here. Gaussian blur and edit to this top, bottom sparse stay. And we can delete this low because we don't want it on this layer and blurriness, Let's set it to 16. Let's also add some curves. And also let's click here on solo to see it better, and click here to see on black background. So with this blurriness, as you can see, we've melted them together, these particles. And with this scarce effect and alpha channel, we want to make it a lot more visible, something like this. Now we have this kind of blob wish weekend to make it a bit. Lists, type it here or CC vector blur and effects and presets. And with this amount, we can get really cool effect. I think really cool effects starts from 30 to about 55 and 30 will connect particles. Really cool. So if we solo on this I'm spark state, we will introduce our particles. And as you can see with these two layers and with the changing of this effect, we can read a bit of connection between these particles. We should really looks like here was some kind of matter. And finally, we can add some curves effect. And if we will pull this RGB curve down, we can introduce a bit more of color if you want. And let's un-solo these both layers. So now with these particles inside, we can get this kind of cool effect, but we still want to make this go away faster because as you can see here at the Yankees stays for too long. So I'll just select these both layers, button sparse stay and butter sparks stay. Also white mouse Likud it and go to time, Time Stretch and change it to 90. In this case, it will disappear a lot faster and we can even press S on keyboard about here to see the scale, create a keyframe and move it a bit further. And about here, Let's increase the scale so it would look like they are just a bit floating around like this and disappearing, which looks critical. And finally, let's enable these shooting sparks to see its together. And now as you can see, we kind of edit everything which we have. But it still doesn't look like it's blended together. So as a final touch, we want to add overall glow. What we can do is to duplicate some of these spikes. Beg low, just select it and press Control D and place it on top here. Now let's go to the Project panel. Basically, if we will click on this layer name, we will see that it is using spike edges composition, which is right here. And as you can see, this spike edges effect has too much glow on our face, which we don't want. So let's duplicate here and spike edges not here, but here. If we duplicate and here our composition, it will create entirely new compositions. Not the copy, not to duplicate, but entirely new composition. So let's call it overall glow, and let's open up. So we will use the same kind of animation, but we don't want to use this top part on our face. We can even delete it, select it and press Delete, and then select this bottom part and click on one of the points. And just like this, got the top part. So once again select one of the points, and then with this box, select all of the points which we don't want and press delete. So in this case we have only this kind of animation. Let's go to our main composition, which is raw footage and select this spiky edges which we've created. Now we can just select this overall glow selected and hold alt key on keyboard and drop it on spiky edges. Just make sure that this one is selected, this one is selected and then lead more slick, hold Alt key on a keyboard and drop it here. It will change like this. And now as you can see, it works only in this part which we want. So now finally, we can just add some Gaussian blur. Let's edit on this overall glow. And let's set to really high value of 450 and is against the it's AD and some low. And let's set it to Screen so it will add only the globe part like this. We can even enable this Tritone effect if you want to control which kind of color will be introduced and highlights also against you like this. With this, we are blending all of these effects together, really nice. And we can even duplicate this overall glow one more time. Just select it and press Control D to duplicate it. And with this one we can make a bit tighter glow. So we can change this Gaussian blur to 200 if we will see only this layer, you can see that we can set to a really high value to get overall glow or to 200, as we said it, to get only these hotspots. And once again, with these mid tones and highlights, we can control which kind of colors we want to introduce to our glow when it's good idea too. I'm curious effect to our background. With this chorus effect, we want to intensify this kind of glow so we can create a keyframe to our curves. And here where it's really bright, we want to darken our backgrounds so this low, we'll cover all of our screen. Like our camera is not handle this kind of much of glow and it's trying to change the exposure to this source of light. We basically emulating what camera would do in this kind of situation. Same kind of animation, of course, we want to copy it and let's find ourselves on top. It's this one and apply it to ourselves. We can just select our background, press U to see where we started our animation, it looks like here. And then select ourselves, this bottom part of ourselves and also press Control V to paste our animation. So if we will sell solo this layer, we can see that it's getting darker and also apply this animation to our face as well. Just make sure that when these parts are getting closer to our face, we want to reset this curve so it will get brighter as well. And here also recess. So basically with this kind of course, we create them this dark and kind of low, so this source of light would look even brighter. And finally, at the end, when everything is low, we want to set this to normal value of our face by resetting the curves. And now let's press on not bad to see our final result. So this is basically the entire process, how you can create an effect like this. I hope you liked it. And if you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments. If you liked this class, you can follow me here on Skillshare and you can check all of my other classes. This one is really cool. It's really fast, just 11 minutes. And at the end, you'll get this kind of effect to which looks really cool. You should totally check it out. Thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next class.