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Exploring visual effects applications

Exploring visual effects applications - After Effects Tutorial

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Exploring visual effects applications

I'd like to show you one more example of using the Mask Feather tool to create a sort of look that might be more common, if say you're a visual effects artist and you're trying to composite a person or an object over brand-new background and want it to seem to be realistic, as if they were shot together. If you have access to the Project files open up VMF_2-Depth of Field starter. Here I have a clock-face over a brand-new background. This clock-face was shot with a very narrow depth of field. Just this line through here is in focus and as you see as we go to the left which is closer to us, and to the right which is further away, that clock-face is much more blurred. If I wanted to cut out this clock-face and put it over my new background, I'll move a little bit later to where there's more color happening in that background, you would want the feather of this edge to change where it's fairly sharp here but fairly soft here to match that Depth of Field blur. So let's go ahead and do…

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