From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects
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Preparing the shot - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects
Preparing the shot
at this shot, when the magic forms big display of magic right in our faces we're going to learn a lot of little cool things here and there. I would get a shot like this and I would be really excited about jumping in, and then I would just go and just start making it just to kind of test to see what I got, just to kind of test to see what I got, and then those tests kind of evolve, and that just became the working shot. And, I'm a little wiser now, because often times when doing that you go back and realize, "Oh wow I set this up entirely incorrectly because I was so impetuous and just jumped in". And so in this case, we do want to do some prep work. I actually took this layer, and I split this, so this is actually two different pieces. I split up the hand, and then Korda'a into two different things. So, this is like the Korda'a layer, I used the mask, and then I duplicated this layer, and then inverted the masks so that I…
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