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Compositing live action fire footage

Compositing live action fire footage - After Effects Tutorial

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Compositing live action fire footage

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- [Instructor] In this tutorial, that I thought were kind of cool about the finale came out looking pretty cool even though This is that finale shot with millions and millions of layers. It would be really difficult, share all these layers, especially because they're in 4K, but you can still kind of see what I'm doing here, Now for this big finale shot, I had explosions going off behind Gal'haten and I had a bunch of fire in front of him, but let's look at those layers a little more closely here. So this is the explosion, turn that layer off and on, that's what it looks like. Now if I double-click this, we actually see this was just a lighter with some hairspray or WD-40 or something like that, that's a very unsafe thing to do, so I'm not saying that we did that, but that's I didn't have to key it out. the Add Blend mode and popped it back there and somehow it looked pretty awesome. as high a frame rate as I could on my camera, and that makes things feel a little bit bigger and…

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