From the course: Tracking in After Effects
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Adding background elements - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Tracking in After Effects
Adding background elements
- [Instructor] The next step here will serve as a rehearsal for one of the techniques we already seen in a previous movie. And this is attaching a 3D layer to a 2D tracker, but I promise to spice it up with a cool trick that will show you how you can create an inner animation inside a static image. So this is our starting point, this is what we did so far. And, what I would like to do, is add these arrows on the floor and also animate them. So, as you can see we have a hand-held camera motion here, so the first task will be to make sure that this arrows layer is moving with the scene. So, to do it, I'll select our main clip here and then I'll click on Track Motion. Then I'll select this tracker, wait for the double-headed arrow, and then move it to some contrast place over here in the pavement, so let's go with this texture. I'll zoom in so I can see better what I'm doing. I'll expand this search area just a touch. I'll click on the Options just to verify that everything is according…
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