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This Is a Private Server, Hit the Boat Dude

I took the man from a viral phone clip out of his truck and put him in a Minecraft boat, using camera tracking, a cutout of every frame, and a custom mod that replays the camera move in game.

Format
YouTube video
Views
13K+
Techniques
Camera tracking, rotoscoping
Built
Custom Minecraft mod
  • Minecraft
  • Visual Effects
  • Camera Tracking
  • Modding
  • Content Creation

Video summary

A one-minute visual effects edit. I started from a well-known clip of a man in his truck, filmed on a phone, and rebuilt the shot so he’s sitting in a boat on a Minecraft river instead, with the camera moving through the game world exactly the way the phone moved.

The man composited into a wooden Minecraft boat on a river, pointing at the camera

How I made it

Track the camera. I tracked the original phone footage so I could rebuild the camera’s exact movement in 3D.

The original truck footage with camera tracking markers overlaid The source clip with tracking markers.

Cut him out. I cut him out of every single frame, so only he’s left.

The man cut out of the footage on a transparent background

Replay the move in Minecraft. I built a custom Minecraft mod that replays the same camera move inside the game. Then I added textures and lined everything up so he sits right in the boat.

The cutout placed in the Minecraft scene before textures The same scene with Minecraft textures added The replayed camera move, before and after textures.

Light and color. Shaders add real lighting and reflections, and a color match blends him into the scene.

The finished shot with shaders and a color match

The layers

Slices of each stage side by side, from the original truck footage to the cutout, the textured scene, and the untextured scene Every stage in one frame: the original footage with camera tracking, the cutout, the finished shot, the textured scene, and the bare replay.