From the course: After Effects CC 2021 Essential Training: VFX
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Keyframing masks - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CC 2021 Essential Training: VFX
Keyframing masks
- [Instructor] One aspect of visual effects involves creating masks to isolate areas of our footage. Of course, since what we want to cut out will often move over time in our shot, animating masks manually isn't always the first approach we want to tackle on our list, but sometimes manually animating masks is unavoidable. This work of rotoscoping is really the unsung hero of visual effects, a tedious task whose results are supposed to go unseen. In this movie, we'll examine the Pen tool and how we can use it to create animated masks and create transparency. In my shot, I've got a long jumper whose foot contact there is going to be accentuated with a bit of ground shatter. So as I introduce that top layer here, you'll see that ground shatter happens on top of the foot. Let's go ahead and zoom in a little bit here. I'm going to shorten the duration of our work area. So right here, we can click and drag or hit B on the…
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