From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments

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Making the campfire elements

Making the campfire elements

From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments

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Making the campfire elements

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I created the campfire elements for this shot. We're not going to go into like, super deep detail, because I was kind of like, hunting and pecking and exploring, but I'm just going to walk you through what I did here, if you go over to this composition, original plate and element rocks, you see there's an element rocks solid, and this has Element 3D, from Video Copilot applied to it, it'll open up the Element 3D window here, and you see that I have several different groups. And I believe these are just kind of like the default rocks, in like the starter pack that ship with Element, yeah they're just like rock one, two, and three, and I remember seeing these and that they looked really good, and so I just loaded them up here, and then I made some copies in the groups here, and had a bunch of different rocks. And then I added a light to the scene so that there would be some kind of directionality to the light, so I could choose, you know, to put them in the campfire such that they were…

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