From the course: After Effects Guru: Time-Lapse 3D Motion and Compositing

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Adding in sky layers or background elements

Adding in sky layers or background elements

- [Instructor] Now that we have compositing down pretty well let's apply what we've learned with masking to add some cool skies to our shot. So for this example, we're taking a look at this shot of Los Vegas skyline from the Stratosphere Hotel tower. And, as you can see, it's a really nice, solid shot. It's static, the camera's not moving, but I'm shooting through a plate of glass. And this is a great shot for a number of different reasons that we're going to get into in the next couple of chapters. The first of which is the sky. The sky is very, just, let's face it, it's boring. There's nothing happening. There's no clouds. There's a couple exciting planes, but that doesn't really do it for us. So we're going to want to go ahead and replace the sky. Another couple of things that we notice is that in the bottom right-hand corner over here, keep your eye on that. You'll see a lot of reflections from the door behind us. Someone was going in and out over and over again, and I guess there…

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