Forrest Gump Effect Tutorial (add yourself to historical footage)

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Ever wanted to try the effect used in Forrest Gump where a character is added into some historical footage? My latest tutorial quickly shows you how using After Effects.

See how they shot the original here:

How the famous 'feather' sequence was made:

See the other tutorial videos here:

[TheUnusualSuspect]

Impressive stuff! I've been doing stuff like this where I insert myself into movies but it doesn't look nearly as good.

[shortbreaddistudios]

Thanks so much! I watched Forrest Gump, and was always amazed about how they edited Forrest into old footage. And now I can do it myself!

[TheThunderWeasel]

Imagine with the right lighting. You can really get the effect down to near 100% immersion. Well done.

[williamanderson]

At 2:00 minute mark it looks like ringo acknowledges you

[tom_sha]

Swear to God this guy is legitimate funniest skill editor on YouTube 🤣

[mhoover]

Great effect, could have used a little bump up in contrast.

[dopshooter]

Even the quality and direction of the light makes a huge difference

[Moklava]

Great job absolutely perfect I will use this in my next project maybe I send you a link!

[warren]

Your Videos are so bloody good well done Steve

[PostMortar]

Thank you so much! You wouldn't believe how long it took me to find this!

[rafaelcarranza]

Imma have a lot of fun with this one lol

[kickbiker]

Excellent. Very impressive. Very imaginative!

[rihardsirbe]

You are so good at this, I'm trying to learn these things

[jmemusic]

I guess deep fake is much easier, but I here you also got your body and not just your face. It looks great.

[ScriptedEntertainment]

I could swear that Ringo nodded at you 😂

[sarahborowik-frank]

loved this one!! nice skills and awesome video, thank you mate ♡

[shaunZ]

How do you determine the frame rate of the footage you want to match? also would like to see you explain colour matching in premiere pro or after effects. There are lots of resources on photoshop, but bit hard to transfer the learning.

[phinehas]

Thanks or your excellent instruction! You are THE BEST!

[Phoenix-bibn]

This will be really helpful for me merging one piece of existing film footage with another. The only issue with that is there is no green screen. Do you have any tips on fast rotoscoping?

[cameramanhicham]

thanks dude ..that trick make back to my country in 1926 morooco ..merci