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Building a new window - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: VFX Techniques: Digital Set Extension
Building a new window
We've added additional set dressing in the form of these two posters on the left. This leads to one problem that we have to deal with, and that's the fact that there's no set here. There's just a big, empty black hole. Be great to have another window there, so you could perhaps see the city behind this building. I do that in several steps. I start by adding a matte painting that represents the very end of the wall. Let's bring in some artwork and take a look at that to see what that might look like. So back to the Project panel > Import > File. This time, we'll go to the Art folder, and in that folder, there's a file called Windows Strip. We'll import that. Let's take a look. This is actually a narrow matte painting, that was created using parts of the original video. So there is the edge of the brick wall, where the building ends, and also window frame. Let's bring that in. We'll drop that on top, of the composition layer stack, and there it is. Now, of course, it has to be motion…
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