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Mocha AE planar tracking

Mocha AE planar tracking - After Effects Tutorial

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Mocha AE planar tracking

- With our 3D camera in place, we can start to composite elements into our scene. After Effects has the ability to work with both 2D and 3D layers in the same composition and here, we'll continue to build our scene with that in mind. So previously we had used the camera tracker to create a 3D camera as well as a reference and when we play our shot, we can see that the null is following along with our footage. We'll use that as a reference for some of the other elements we'll introduce. Over here I have a fire composition that I created using turbulent noise, some particles. We'll go through how to create this in a later movie but for now, let's go ahead and add that as an element into our composition. Let's go ahead and solo this. You see that the fire emanates from the very bottom and because we want the fire to align with the ground plane, let's go ahead and switch up our anchor point. So this anchor point right here we can move it by use of this tool, the pan behind ink point tool.…

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