From the course: VFX Techniques: Crowd Replication with After Effects

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Adding artwork and renders

Adding artwork and renders - After Effects Tutorial

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Adding artwork and renders

There is no limit to the number of trackers you can add to a layer, at the same time there's no limit to the number of layers you can apply the tracking data to. We're going to try that in this video. First thing I'll do is put another solar panel right here, and that will require additional tracker. I'm going to use the same render as before. I'm going to go to the SolarPanels and drag that back down and make that a new layer on top. There's another iteration of the panels. Now I only want one little section of this panel, so I'm going to cut it out with the mask again. I'll go up to the Pen tool, and draw a mask. This time I want to draw one just to cut out the leftmost panel, so I'm trying to make it nice and neat on this right edge. You can adjust these points afterwards just by click-dragging them. So there's a new panel cutout by itself. I'm going to track it to this stand over here. So, I want to move it over first to get into a good start position on frame 0. I'll do that by…

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