From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects

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Assembling and compositing the ball components

Assembling and compositing the ball components - After Effects Tutorial

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Assembling and compositing the ball components

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and it was hard to play with them because the resolution was so ridiculous. I mean, this is 8K texture, so this is actually at 100%. This is just ridiculous. But that did mean that I had a lot to play around with, which was really fun. Now, when I rendered this out, I realized, okay, this is so fun to play with, and I want to explore, experiment with compositing this, but I wanted a little bit more control, flexibility. So I rendered out these dots only, just the little sparkles that we made. And I also rendered out just the strings, the tendrils that we made. So I had all of them put together, and then the dots and strings only separately so I could composite them. So, what I want to do in this tutorial is show you some of the things that I did when I was assembling the final ball. Now, these textures were just too massive to re-encode and then set along with your precise file, so I just kind of wanted you to look here…

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