From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects
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Simulating a rack focus effect - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects
Simulating a rack focus effect
and that is this rack focus shot from the particles then they seem like they fit in the shot better. you can go back to cinematography course in this series you really have to have that rack focus in the live action footage. So you can see the hand is in focus, Korda'a's out of focus, move here, and that's the opposite. So let's about how to do this manually, So let's about how to do this manually, I'm going to go down to, I'm in this rack focus start composition, I'm in this rack focus start composition, and I want to go down to layer number nine, that's called form three in this case, and I have basically all of the things that we've done here with particular and form, that we've done here with particular and form, all the stuff we've done in this chapter. I also added a little bit of a glow to make those pop, you can see that, that restores some of the brightness that's lost by adding some of the randomization that we added. So when…
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