 Hello everybody. Welcome back to another Adobe After Effects 2022 tutorial. This one, I'm going to show you how to face track and change faces into caricatures into funny faces. For example, here I've got one for you. I've got Johnny Depp and Amber Heard both talking on the stand and then all of a sudden Johnny becomes a bit clownish. I got a unique little effect going on with his face and then Amber Heard while her forehead turns into a five head. How do we do that and how do we make these caricature changes? If I hit spacebar you'll see that the face is tracked so it's not like in Photoshop where it's a still shot. This moves with her face like these things move with them as you can see here. So how the heck did we do that? Well let's start from scratch and I will show you step by step. Let's delete everything. Why not? Let's start right from scratch so we're going to go new project might as well. Don't save new project whatever. Okay grab your footage. So where do I have my footage? I have it in frequently used. Here it is. Here is the Depp Heard footage. I'm going to drag and drop that into my project and then I'm just going to drag and drop it here and now presto it's on my timeline. The next step is you got to determine which one of these characters do you want to make the funny face on. So let's go with Amber Heard. Let's work on her first. So I'll show you how to do both of them in both of them but we'll work on her face. So the next step is making sure you're selected on the layer here. Go up to the top and select your ellipse tool. Draw an ellipse around her face. This is face tracking and this is basically going to create a mask. You'll see it's created a mask because it says mask one. So there you go. So there you go. We've made it a mask and now you want to go from add switch that to none and the reason why we do that is because then we can see the rest of the video instead of just that face bobbing around in discombobulated space. So there we go. We've got a mask on her face. All right. Next step here is making sure that you're selected on the mask. So the mask is selected. Go over to your tracker. If you don't see that go to window. Make sure the check mark beside tracker wherever your tracker is. The next step here is they hit basically the play button. We're just going to track selected masks forward. So we're going to track it. So there we go. We're tracking her face and this is a short clip so she'll only take a few seconds but presto that is it. We've got a mask and we've got a tracked mask and you can see the tracking points on her face. So we know it's a good mask. So we're on our way. We're doing good here. Okay. The next step is you want to basically get a rest pose for her. So if there's a shot where one of your character or your person is looking forward towards at the camera that's generally the best one to use. So I'm just going to left click set rest pose. Beauty. Now we want to extract and copy face measurements. Very important. So left click on that now and boom. You'll see under the effect controls panel that we've got facial measurements set up. So we have now tracked the mask and we've got the measurements and we're now ready to use the plugin. Now this is a plugin by the motion bro and it is a well there's a paid plugin and there's a free plugin. You can check here. I'm going to click on this little folder icon and when I do that you'll see here a couple of things. One a face starter pack a tools face tools starter pack and then there's face tools. The starter pack is currently free although that could change at any time but let's click on that and get to work. Okay good stuff. Now when I do that you'll see here. Well let's just go ahead and click on it. There we go. You'll see here a whole bunch of different options. We'll see here we've got distortion. I don't really like this being here but what are you going to do? I'm going to make it a bit bigger here. Hang on. There we go. Okay distortion. So if you'd like you can just hover over them. So if you're thinking about what kind of a caricature or what type of special effect you want to apply to her face. Go ahead like this is a puffer fish style. If you want to change your forehead why not let's change your forehead in this one. Okay we're going to go from a forehead to a five head. Which one do I like? Do I like this one or this one? Oh let's go with Shanaido Connor. Okay we're going to do this one. The next step actually is just to go ahead and left click on apply. Now I'm going to minimize this for a second and boom. Here's the original click. Now here's the caricature. She's got a five head people. How great is that? Now one more thing I'll show you before I click off here is if you want to show this as a gradual transition you can go ahead and just move this to like let's say 10 frames. And what I would do is there's no forehead, forehead, forehead, forehead, five head. Okay go to the first frame. Click here. Make sure you're selected and not hit the T button on your keyboard. T stands for opacity. Left click on the stop wash and now drop that down to zero percent. And then let's go forward to say the 20th frame and then go up to 100 percent. And what this does is an opacity transition. So basically it goes oh let's just hit spacebar. You'll see. Yep she's got a five head. That's how you do it guys. That's how you do face tracking caricatures and special effects for faces inside Adobe After Effects. Thanks for watching. Be back soon.