From the course: After Effects Compositing: 2 Matching Foreground to Background
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Compositing is matching - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Compositing: 2 Matching Foreground to Background
Compositing is matching
You could say that a compositor just matches elements together, and that would be true enough, except for that pesky word just. Here we have two skateboards, only of which, is actually real. Now, you could call this a simple a over b composite. And it is fairly simple. And yet, if we look at a version that has none of the compositing, you can see, how many things actually have to happen, to make you believe that this board, belongs in this scene. There's color, there's lightning, there's shadow. But there's also, grain, depth of field. Motion blur, and little details that you can add in After Effects easily, that really just enhance the reality of the synthesized element. Now in this course, we're going to start with a simple shot like this, and go rather deliberately through, everything that's involved, with getting it to really work. Because I want you to have, the principles, that you can apply both to a simple shot like this. And, virtually any shot, of any level of complexity…
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