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Creating masks and feathered edges

Creating masks and feathered edges

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Creating masks and feathered edges

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- [Instructor] Now we have to look at masks, and now we can use masks to control the visible animation that we see. So before I want to do that, let's go outside of the main work comp, it'll be easier if we just deal with one layer, so let's go to 060 robots two, and we can collapse that twirler if it's out. If you don't see it, then just double click on the robots two and the project file. And here we are, so be sure that you select the layer that you want to mask, and then select the rectangle tool. And now we can draw... A mask, that's showing us the area that we want to see. Be sure that the mask is set to add, if you make it subtract then it does the opposite, and also if it's inverted it does the opposite, so a bit of overkill, but you can do either. So what if you want to change the shape, from a rectangle to something more uneven, so let's choose the selection tool, and we just grab it now and move it around the camera to do much. So what we can do is click off of the tool…

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