what i wanted to include lots of references for me to refer back to and this is something that i have open in a browser tab while i'm designing and animating so i'm not having to look up each of these individually and i'm also tracking my tasks in this task section currently in progress is the recording of this tutorial which i'm hoping goes well but once that's done i'm going to place it into the done column and start working on the next thing which is editing the rough cut of this tutorial now i find this is the most useful section for me where i can set up all the steps that i need to do and it's just really helpful for my process to just keep me on track and then i've added some additional sections at the bottom here to show the middle stages of these animations for client approval which in this case is me so i don't generally need these too much but it's always great to have your client approving things and keeping that approval somewhere where they can see it so they're less likely to change their mind and of course you can invite your client to the wall to add their own ideas and requirements or you can send them a link they can easily leave comments or any idea on your wall walling is free so if you think this might be as useful to you and your project as it is for me and mine you've got nothing to lose so try out walling by clicking the link down in the description okay now for compositing so i'm in a new comp that i've called tat main NUMBER_TOKEN motion graphics and i'm going to drag in a comp that i've called skin plates looped now essentially this is just a looping texture and you can see one of the many tutorials i've done about looping textures up here on the right but instead of paper or watercolor or something like that this is a texture of some skin freshly shaved for a tattoo now i couldn't really find any photos online of some skin that has just been shaved for a tattoo but with a tattoo yet to be put on it so i had to create my own and yep i shaved four circles into my legs ah the things i do for tutorials so therefore unfortunately limited by my technology we are stuck with pasty man legs for this example so next we're going to drag over our tattoo let's drag over our anchor first and now we can see it playing over our skin and look at that it looks nothing like a tattoo but we're going to add a ton of effects to make it look more worn in and really feel like it's ink under the skin so the first thing we're going to do is add the effect gaussian blur and let's blur it a little maybe to around NUMBER_TOKEN pixels so it definitely doesn't have that hard pixel perfect edge and then let's also add a curves effect and we're going to select the blue channel and just increase the amount of blue in the dark areas and that will give the ink a slightly blue tint and then we're going to set its blending mode from normal to multiply so we'll see a bit of our skin texture underneath let's also change the color of this layer here as well let's go to cyan and then we're going to duplicate this again with controller command d
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN what i wanted to include lots of references for me to refer back to and this is something that i have open in a browser tab while i'm designing and animating so i'm not having to look up each of these individually and i'm also tracking my tasks in this task section currently in progress is the recording of this tutorial which i'm hoping goes well but once that's done i'm going to place it into the done column and start working on the next thing which is editing the rough cut of this tutorial now i find this is the most useful section for me where i can set up all the steps that i need to do and it's just really helpful for my process to just keep me on track and then i've added some additional sections at the bottom here to show the middle stages of these animations for client approval which in this case is me so i don't generally need these too much but it's always great to have your client approving things and keeping that approval somewhere where they can see it so they're less likely to change their mind and of course you can invite your client to the wall to add their own ideas and requirements or you can send them a link they can easily leave comments or any idea on your wall walling is free so if you think this might be as useful to you and your project as it is for me and mine you've got nothing to lose so try out walling by clicking the link down in the description okay END_SPONSOR_TOKEN