Total hours for vfx: 65 hours (spread over three weeks) Number of heads replaced: 96 (not all of them made the cut) Since the release of the Pistol Youth music video back in January 09, I have been getting lots of emails and comments from people, a lot of which have been asking, “how did you do that?”, “Did you use Syntheyes, Mocha, Shake or After Effects?”, How long did that take”, some just commented “Wow, that totally freaked me out, but it was awesome!”, etc… Well, to answer some of the questions… Pistol Youth – In My Eyes from Pistol Youth on Vimeo.Įxtra special thanks to the following extremely talented people for allowing me to use footage from the music video for this tutorial.Įxecutive Producer: Steve Buchanan More Fancy Websiteĭirector: Isaac Rentz Isaac Rentz WebsiteĬast: Bradley Hanan Carter of Pistol Youth Pistol Youth Website WARNING FOR GOLDEN GIRL FANS: You may find this unbelievably funny or absolutely disturbing. AHHHHH! Yes, now you remember….and if you don’t, or if you missed out on this event….here is the video that caught a lot of attention. You know, the one with the Golden Girls…. 🙂 Most of you may recall the infamous Pistol Youth music video, “In My Eyes” that was storming the web a few months back. This tutorial is a special one and a little different in that it doubles as a small behind-the-scenes video as well. Learn some of the tricks and hurdles you may have to deal with when trying to produce this type of effect. In this two part series, I’ll show you how to track and composite a face onto another body using After Effects and Mocha AE.

Mocha ae tutorial