The face tracker is an innovative tool that Adobe introduced with its 2015 After Effects CC release and it enables you to track faces very accurately. You can then use masks or different effects on the track region to bring your editing to a whole new level
This feature is great for tracking videos and shots with faces pointed mostly at the camera and it’s a great shortcut to getting a face outline quickly
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So let’s go ahead and take a look at how to use this amazing feature step by step
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- First, as usual, we’ll import a footage file inside After Effects and create a new comp from it
Next, we’ll need to select the mask tool by clicking on it in the tools panel or you can press “Q” to jump to the feature and press it again until you reach the “Ellipse Tool” section
We’ll create a simple elliptical mask around the face
Next, we’ll need to right click on the mask in the composition panel, and choose “Track Mask”
This will bring up the tracker menu with various options and methods from tracking and for this example, we’ll choose “Outline Only”. The more advanced “Details Features” will pick up the locations of facial features. This will improve the mask and add various additional points to get a nice curved mask around the face
Click the play button to start tracking forward
The mask will change its position and shape as the subject moves
Once the tracking is done, we can assign the mask as an effect
The face mask behaves like a regular mask, and it can be feathered, expanded or it can have various settings for the opacity
We can apply various effects straight on the footage – as the mask is assigned to work as an effect and a good option for this would be to use the fast blur to mask out the face. This is a nice alternative to using regular tracking for this blurring purpose- If you’d like to track specific points in a person’s face, such as the eyes or the mouth, you can set the tracker to Face Tracking – Detailed Features Mode
- Using this technique you can change a person’s eye color or change the position and movement of the mouth, without having to manually place keyframes
This type of tracking will also give you information on have open an eye is or how open the mouth is across the timeline- You can export all this data to Adobe Character Animator and perform character animation and movement
Face Tools After Effects Program
Things to consider when applying this method:
- The bigger the face is in the actual shot, the more pixels AE will have to analyze, so the longer it will take
- After masking, make sure you have your mask selected in order for your tracker panel to show up
Face Tools After Effects Program
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