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Create blank footage with a simple expression

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From the course: After Effects Compositing: 5 Rotoscoping & Edges

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Create blank footage with a simple expression

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- Having taken care of the left side of the frame, now let's address the right side. Now this one's going to be a little more complicated because there are background skaters populating the right side through most of this shot. If we could just simply copy the very first frame and use that, we'd be good to go, however, as you may have heard me say in a separate course, the problem with doing that is that you lose all of the grain and ambient light movement that just occurs naturally in a moving scene. So even with a locked off camera, and even to the eye of a person who doesn't know what they're looking at if they're just looking at a still frame like this the shot somehow looks really dead and fake. So you want to match whatever natural movement is there even down at the pixel level, and I assume that you can see that. So in fact the first 10 frames or so are pretty good. One thing I noticed is this shadow coming in from the entering skater right from the beginning but we'll take…

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