From the course: Motion Design in After Effects

Replacing the football

From the course: Motion Design in After Effects

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Replacing the football

- [Instructor] So everything works very nicely together, but when I'm editing this soccer from the original document, it's actually not going to work in this case. So, I've prepared a fancy 3D animation of a soccer using a third party plugin here inside after effects named element 3D. Now, I'm not going to show you how I did it, this is beyond the scope of this course, but I will share with you the results and we are going to compose it to this 3D soccer here together. So, we need to first bring it to the project (mumbles). So make sure the project is selected, double click over here to invoke the import dialogue and then navigate to the footage folder inside the exercise files, select the 3D football dot mov and click import. Then I'm going to drag and drop it on top of the football poster com, and this is going to place it here in the middle of the composition. First, I'm going to press S to isolate the scale of it, and then I'll scale it to 45% and I need to move it to place. So I'll press P and this is going to show you the position, and then you can scrub the Y value until you reach 630, which is going to work quite nicely here. Now, I'll take this layer and drag it above the original soccer and switch off the visibility of this guide because we no longer need it services. Then I'll collapse the layer and before moving forward, I think that we need to match this to the colors that we're seeing over here. So I'll bring back the effects and presets, and I'll start to type in the word Tritone, so T-R-I-T should suffice, and this is going to show you the Tritone effect. I'll double click on it to apply it, and it almost works here. I think that we need to take the shadows and just sample the darker Brown from the scene and maybe then click again and change the brightness to a darker tint of Brown. So we'll gain more contrast. And now this 3D football looks more connected to what we have here. So if we'll go to the beginning and press the space bar then you see that it already has its own rotating animation. But we want to create some sort of a kick maybe with a bounce effect or an overshoot. So I'll pose the playback and our scrub the timeline to see where I want it to land. So I think around three second will be the ending of the animation, which means that I need to create a scale keyframe over here. Now I can press S to isolate the scale, we already know how this works, but I want to show you another trick. So I'm going to hold down Shift + Alt and then press S, and this is going to expose the scale as well as create a keyframe at the same time. So now we know that this is the landing point, so now let's go to two seconds over here and set it to zero by typing it from the keyboard and to create this bounce or overshoot animation, I'll go to two seconds and 15 frames and I'll set it to 75%. So it's going to be bigger before it settles down. Then I'll select all keyframes by marquee around them, and then press F nine to create an Easy Ease animation. Let's go to the beginning, press space bar to play the result and see how this works with all the other layers that are being animated. So this is how you can import a 3D (mumbles) file match it to the color temperature of the scene using the Tritone effect, as well as create some sort of an overshoot or a bounce animation using three keyframes for the scale property.

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