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Modifying the head with a layer map

Modifying the head with a layer map - After Effects Tutorial

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Modifying the head with a layer map

- [Instructor] All right, continuing on from the last tutorial, we got this beautiful 3D head here. I'm liking where it's going but I don't like the hard edge here from the 3D object. There's not like really a great way to taper that off. So what we're going to do is we're going to create a layer map and see if we can't disperse these bottom particles just a little bit. Now, it's not so simple because it's not really just the Y axis that we are dispersing. So if it was just the bottom of the Y axis then it would only get this part but it actually goes up around the neck. And that might be a limitation of the 3D model or whatever. But it still be going to be an interesting exercise. I'm going to right-click. I'm going to create a new solid and I'm going to call this gradient ramp, and go ahead and apply the gradient ramp effect. And it is over here. There we go. Double-click to apply it. There we go. And what I want…

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