Blender Tutorial: Hoverboard [VFX]

 

In this video, we will be taking a video of a skateboarder and adding a little "Back to the Future" in this Hoverboard VFX Tutorial. 

If you guys want to follow along and download the video I used, you can find it here. 

This effect is really simple and quite effective, just by removing the Wheels and replacing them with a nice clean section of our video we can get this awesome Hoverboard effect.

To pull this off we only need a couple of Tracks, Masks and a little Compositing. If you have the VFX Nodes Add-on, we can use the Clone Node to do the compositing work for us.

You can check out the VFX Nodes here.

If you are recording this footage yourself, I would suggest adding a couple of Markers on the skateboard. They will certainly help you with the Masking step. 

If you are not able to add Markers, not to worry!. We will be using the Wheels for our Tracking (though we will need to offset the Tracks when the wheels go out of frame).

The more time you spend in the Masking step will greatly effect the final result. If you rush through, it will be noticeable when you have rendered it out. If you are working on an important project you are going to want to make sure the masking is on point. 

As I mentioned, it would be much easier to do this whole effect using the VFX Nodes Add-on. That being said, in the video we look at both ways should you choose not to download it.

I hope you find this tutorial helpful and as always thanks for reading!.