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

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Changing clothing and hair color

Changing clothing and hair color - After Effects Tutorial

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

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Changing clothing and hair color

We have color graded the crowd using the effects like Curves and Color Balance. Another thing we could do along the lines of color grading is change the crowd so it looks a little bit more random. After all we've used the same three or four actors or five actors over and over and over again. So it's possible that people might notice some of the repeating patterns. For example, there is a tall man right here in the red shirts, and that red shirt is also right here on the same man. That might pop out. So what we can do is apply color grading to very small areas like the top of the shirt. So how do we do that? Let's figure out where that shirt is first. So if that's on 3A layer, which it is, I can go into that preComposition. Figure out which one that person belongs to, and it looks like 3B. No, I am sorry. Let's try 4A. I am going to isolate 4A with the solo button. Then what we can do is duplicate that layer, isolate that color, and then change the color. So with 4A selected I'll go up…

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