 Hell yeah, what's up guys, this is CursePike, my friends, call me Bigsy! Back in action today, I'm going to show you how to add these amazing animated emojis into your After Effects tutorial, and not only that, they're going to be tracked to faces, so they will move with your person, or whatever it is you're tracking, they will move with you. What the heck am I talking about? Let's just shut this for a second. Let me show you here, so I'll turn this off. This is the original footage. Boom, there he is. Why am I even doing that? I should just go ahead and show you the original here, okay? This is the original footage, there he is, there's some dude walking down the street and we're walking on the beach, and then I'm just going to go ahead and add that back in, and then let's take a look at what it looks like with the emoji, boing, and you'll notice that the emoji turned and it actually moves with the face. It is tracked to the face very, very well, so let's go ahead and delete all of that stuff. Let's delete everything, actually. Let's just go ahead and chop it out and start from scratch. I'm going to show you how to do this. It's not too tricky, but there's a few steps to it, so let's just get it rolling. Okay, the first step is you've got to grab your footage, so here's the footage. I'm going to drag and drop that into my project panel, like I just did, and then I'm just going to drag and drop it right here on top of New Composition and Presto, we're on our way. The next step is I'm just going to go ahead and stop this around, let's go to like three seconds, just over three seconds, because this is very CPU and resource intensive, so I'm just going to make this a small composition, because I just want to teach you the technique. So I just pulled that in there, and then I'm just going to go to Trim Comp to work area. So now this is only about a three and a half second long clip, so that's manageable. Okay, now making sure you're selected on the video here that you're using, we're going to go up to the top here and we're going to grab this little rectangle tool. We're going to get the ellipse tool, in fact, and we're going to draw a mask around his face. So let's just go ahead and do that. I want to make sure I get all of his face and a little extra doesn't hurt. Okay, something like that, that doesn't look too bad. All right, good enough. Okay, so we've got our mask. Next step, left click on the mask here. We're now going to go over to the tracker. You will see, if you don't see it, it's going to be a window, and there's got to be a check mark beside tracker. Go to tracker, and it's face tracking time. So the first step here is we're going to go ahead and hit the play button. This says track selected masks forward, left click on that, and it will do a mask track. Let's go ahead. There we go. Now, this is very, very quick, and I've got a fast computer, so you'll see here these are the tracking points, and it's being applied almost in real time. That's pretty darn impressive there, Adobe. Nice work. So there we go. Now we've got a track mask on his face, and you'll see here that it sort of floats and discombobulated in space. Not to worry if that bugs you. All you got to do is go over to the mask, and then instead of add, just click it to none. And when you do that, you'll still see the mask, but it'll show you all the stuff in the background too, so you can sort of zoom in and see what's going on. So okay, so we've got a pretty good face track here. So okay, I'm liking it. The next step is we're going to want to set a rest pose. So I'm going to go ahead and just click outside of the composition so I can get rid of that mask stuff so I can just see. And for a rest pose, basically you want a, when he's looking or she's looking at the camera, just basically straight on. If you can get a shot like that, that's the best shot. So without any funny faces or anything like that. So here he is looking pretty much dead on at the camera, almost just a little bit off. There we go, something like that. That's a good one. We're going to go back to tracker, open it up, and we're going to go ahead and click on the mask again. We clicked out. We're going to click back on it, and then you're going to see here set rest pose. So we're going to set that as our rest pose bingo. Now the next step is to go extract and copy face measurements. You got to make sure you left click on this as well. And then it's going to run some calculations and you'll see them pop up here under your effect controls. So here we go. There's our face measurements and yeah, I won't go into all the details, but it's done it automatically. We are now on our way and we're getting pretty close. The next step is we want to go up to window extensions and we want motion bro version 3.2, whatever it's at when you watch this video. For me, I've got it open right here. So I'm going to open it up and there it is. Now you'll probably see something like this, but what you want to do is you want to make sure you click on this little folder icon and then for this, what I'm working on, I'm working with the free version here. So this is AE starter, AE face tool starter pack. So this is the free version. So this is, you can do this work along with me at least at the time of this. So here we go. So here we go. So what are we looking for? We're looking for the emoji. So let's just take a look here. There it is emoji. Now there's a lot of cool emojis. I don't even know which one I want. I want the crying emoji. Do I want the sick emoji? Do I want the devil emoji? I don't even know. I kind of like this one. We're the guys about to chunder. Looks like the monopoly man's about to throw up. So we're going to now left click on apply and here we go. It loads the presets. It doesn't do a perfect job though. As you can see here it's done an okay job but it's not positioned correctly. So this is where we got to get in and start doing some fine tune it. All right, you're following along with me. I'm liking it. So I'm going to double click now on this composition and there's going to be a few things. But what we're looking at is we're going to want to look at these settings and let's go ahead and make a few adjustments. The sphere radius is how big the head is. So if you want a massive melon you can change that. We're not going to mess around with that too much but we are going to take a look at a couple things. One, well actually that's not so bad. If I'm looking at this correctly, if I'm seeing it the way I think I'm seeing it, this isn't so bad. So I'm just going to go ahead and flip through here and take a couple of looks at some stuff. One of the things I want to change and you'll see here that under settings, under transform is the anchor point. This one's critical. This one is not in the correct point. You want to resist the urge to double click on this and try and move it to where it's supposed to be. You actually got to move it by anchor point. So I'm going to go ahead and move the anchor point so that it's about right in the middle there, something like that. And then let's see, I'm going to move it up and I kind of want to just to be where I think his head should be. So maybe something like that. Now let's go ahead and close this up and now let's hit spacebar and see what we got. Okay, there he goes. Oh, chunder time. Boom, turns, looks at the camera. Vomits, sort of vomit, a little bit in his mouth. Presto, that's how you attach an emoji using face tracking inside Adobe After Effects. Guys, thanks for watching. Tons more stuff coming up. Stay tuned, be back soon.