Digital Tutors Compositing 2D Elements with Footage in After Effects + Project Files
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Category: Tutorial
In this series of lessons we’ll learn how to composite 2d elements over live footage. We’ll create an appealing final video using a few simple images a variety of compositing and animation techniques.
We’ll begin this project by importing our elements and tracking various features of the face, including a difficult track through an eye blink. We’ll learn how to create a tracked and animated mask to match our eye movement. To combine all of the elements and give them visual appeal, we’ll learn how to use several different effects not only by themselves, but also together to create various looks. We’ll learn how we can create animation using expressions. And finally, combine all our layers using compositing math to correctly mix everything together.
Lesson Outline (14 lessons)
1. Introduction and Project Overview
2. Importing the elements and beginning the composition
3. Fixing the animation of our tracker to stay with the pupil
4. Creating a mask for the eye and a new track
5. Animating the eye blink mask
6. Adding Spherical distortion and color to our elements
7. Creating a bright grid using glow and modifying Alpha levels
8. Creating a pulsing expression using the modulo operator
9. Creating the spinning pieces using expressions
10. Creating fake illumination on the grid from the spinners
11. Compositing the reflections on top of the elements
12. Creating a moving mask for our reflections
13. Color correcting the back plate
14. Making final adjustments and adding motion blur
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