April 20, 2016

4/20/16 - After Effects Learning (Part 12) (Compositing)

Two chapters today, all about compositing.  Topics included:

  • Masks
  • Blend Modes
  • Keying/Green-Screening

A lot of powerful concepts, but ones I'm already well familiar with.  I've had very limited success with green-screening though, so it was interesting to see the process from someone else's perspective.  Relatively simple tools, but definitely some of the most powerful.

*Side note:  This did not cover rotoscoping, the main compositing concept I'm most waiting for, and one of the key methods I'll be employing in my film's more difficult VFX.  It covered custom mask shapes, but it did not express the best ways to animate/track them over various frames.  I may have to wait till the more advanced tutorials for that, but I'm starting to have a basic idea of how I might approach it already.

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