Need HELP For This effect!! VIDEO FEEDBACK..

[Michael Szalapski]

The video you linked to said that it wasn’t available for my country. So I went to YouTube and searched for something with a similar title and I think I found it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKz-RXSeIYA

If you’re talking about where he has all those silhouettes of himself growing behind him prepare to spend quite a bit of time. Remember, record companies pay thousands (sometimes millions) of dollars for a music video and they use teams of people to get it done; this stuff takes a while.

Here’s one idea on how to do it:

I’m going to be using After Effects for this explanation, but I’m sure you can get similar results with other programs. (I would probably step outside AE and use Wondertouch’s ParticleIllusion for the particles part, but I’m getting ahead of myself…)

Isolate your performer. Whether it be via chroma key or rotoscoping, get the performer on their own layer.
Duplicate the layer and precompose it. Name the new composition “Particle”
In “Particle” fill the layer with a medium grey color. Effect>Generate>Fill
Then put a black (or dark grey, you can come back and experiment with this later) stroke on the layer. You can do that several ways, two of which are Effect>Stylize>Glow or Effect>Generate>Vegas

If you do it with Glow:
Make sure you set the glow based on Alpha and raise the intensity, but lower the radius and change the A and B colors both to black (or dark grey).
If you do it with Vegas:
Change the input layer to be your new layer. Change the segments to 1. Under rendering change hardness to 1 and the end opacity to 1.

Create an adjustment layer apply Effect/Color Correction>Hue/Saturation.
Click the colorize button. Play with the colors until you get what you want. And keyframe the color to change over time. You can come back in here and create more keyframes later.

If your performer isn’t walking around, you should be done. If they are, you’ll need to use the motion tracking and click Stabilize motion on your performer; use their belt or some other part on the middle of their body as the tracking point and stabilize them. (Check Adobe’s help documentation on how to stabilize motion).

You should now have a composition called “Particle” with a silhouette of your actor in grey outlined in black inside a main composition that has your performer on a separate layer.

Back in your main composition turn the eyeball off on the “Particle” composition.
Create a new solid and put it under your performer layer.
Use your favorite particle plugin (or export the particle layer and use a separate program like ParticleIllusion) and make the emitter follow your performer (In AE Create a Null then on your performer layer do a motion track, but this time instead of using Stabilize Motion click Track Motion and change the motion target to the null. Use an expression on the particle effect to tie the emitter’s location to the null’s location)
Use a custom particle and make it the “Particle” layer in your composition.
Then, depending on which particle option you’re using, play with the settings so that there is no velocity or gravity and make it so that particles grow smoothly over time.
If you’re using ParticleIllusion, make sure it’s set for new particles to be on top.

I’m sure there are other ways to do this, but there’s one. Perhaps after playing with it, you’ll come up with something that’s totally unique and you’re own effect.

– The Great Szalam
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