How to ADD YOURSELF into movies | After Effects actor replacement tutorial

In this tutorial I teach how you can add yourself to famous movies! This fun trick video effect (and a creative use for green screen) which was used by Quentin Tarantino in ’Once Upon a Time In Hollywood’ to make it look like Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Rick Dalton had appeared (or almost appeared) in The Great Escape, playing Steve McQueen’s famous role of Captain Hilts. So technically we are not just adding me to these movies - such as by putting me in the background - we are actually doing a full actor / character replacement and having me interact with the other actors. A tutorial for this effect will be coming soon! For Tarantino’s film, cinematographer Robert Richardson shot DiCaprio in front of a green screen. The actor then read the identical lines McQueen said in the scene. The main challenge for Richardson was making sure he was shooting at the right height and using the right lenses. I was inspired by this to try the same scene from The Great Escape, and also tried a few others: meeting Danie
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