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Composite small splashes

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Composite small splashes

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- To make these feel even more realistic, I've decided to add some small splashes of water in few key places when the monster rising up from the water. So let me show you how you can do that. I'm going to return to the beginning here, and I'm going to use these three small water splash clips that you can find inside the footage folder. So I'm going to double click, just so you can see the first one. This is it. This is the second one. Each one is a bit different, so we won't get a repetitive action here. All right, so let us start with water splash number one. I'm going to drop it here in my composition, and in order to dismiss the black pixels over here, I'm going to switch its blending mode from normal to screen. This way you'll see only the water splash itself. As you can see, we have some problems with the edge of this frame, so I'm going to use the same technique that I showed you before. By double clicking on this ellipse tool, this is going to surround this clip with an…

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