How to Make Anime VFX Video

The demo of the scene where you need to record the videos for the VFX effect. You need two shots where the first one is for the space and the second one with the character performing different actions.

Get started with Filmora and import the footage to the timeline. Here, you can adjust the length of the videos as per the required duration or in lieu of the background. Whatever the adjustment, you can extend the content duration hassle-free.

Select the background video and speed up the video duration. Then select the frame of the highest point and cut the frame. Use the right row key to shift the frames of the video.

Look for the part where the character has fully landed and make a cut. Also, use the right arrow key for this frame as well. You can then make a cut using the split function from the go.

Grab a few frames after the character has landed completely and get rid of the rest video from the timeline. Shift to the next video and make a cut where the character is at the highest point and separate the frame from the others.

Now look for the landed frame and make a cut from that point. Move four frames using the right arrow and make the cut from there as well. You can then drag this video to the previous one and join them within the timeline.

After that, find out the part where the character is starting to move and make the frame freeze till there. Right-click on the video and select Speed and Freeze Frame in order to do that.

To the frame where you have frozen the frame, move five frames to the right and cut there. Then, make a cut to the point where he started the motion again and delete the in-between clip from the timeline.

Look for when he is about to move and make a cut, then look for another finished position and freeze the frame from there. Split the freeze frame after the five frames and get rid of the extra part.

Now you will get the four separate tracks where a separate track for the clones as appeared when he is jumping, a track for the normal videos, one for the speed-up videos, and another for the background video.

Mask out the subject in the freeze frame videos and double click the mask and gab the rectangular mask and make sure to blur the edges. Hit the Ok button afterward.

Keyframe the position from the first location to the second location of the subject. Open up the customization window and lower the opacity before the addition of the keyframes.

Double click on the freeze frame and add animation to add the keyframe now. Position the character using X and Y position sliders within the animation window.

To make it faster and epic reduce the number of frames and get rid of the similar ones within the timeline. Make sure the videos do not overlap to a much extent as the character will be faded out otherwise.

Go to the effects menu for the Motion blur in order to give the character movement the realistic look. Edit the motion blur effect by opening the freeze frame window and squeezing the character so the motion will get smoother. Add the same number of positions for both keyframes.

Before adding the clone effect, shift the top-most track video clips underneath the normal video track. Now lock the other tracks so these tracks’ videos remain intact to their actual position.

Now adjust the clone video frames and add the Freeze frame to the clips. After then, add the Mask effect and scale it to make it squeeze further.

From the Effects menu, add the Weak signal effect to the freeze video by typing the weak signal in the effect search box. Adjust the effect by moving the sliders. Copy and paste this effect editing to the other part of the video as well.

Mask out the subject from the normal speed videos. Click on the video and mask out from the other videos and also add animation keyframes. Make sure to add blur strength to the mask and activate the mask. Repeat this with the other speed videos as well.

Now preview the video after the finishing and check out if there is any ambiguity to this superpower effect on the character. You can always add as many effects to the video to make it more epic and classical.