From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects
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Tracking the eyes in After Effects - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects
Tracking the eyes in After Effects
I'm in the stills and graphics folder, so if you go to the exercise files folder and the media folder, stills and graphics, there's a couple of PSDs in here, so this white eyes for AE is what we want here. We don't want to import this as footage, cause that will take all the layers squished together or just one of the layers. We actually want to create a composition here. If we choose just the composition option, then every layer will be brought in at the size of the entire document, so if we just have a little painting of an eye right here, then it will come in at the size. There will just be a bunch of emptiness in the anchor point in the center of the document, in the anchor point in the center of the document, and that's not what we want. We actually want to retain layer sizes in this case. Then you click on open, and it gives you another dialogue box, where you have to pick the same options, and also too, you have…
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