From the course: VFX Techniques: Creating a CG Flag with After Effects and Cinema 4D

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Creating a mock-up

Creating a mock-up

So, here I have one frame from our final shot, the footage. And let's put, what we're going to do is we're going to jump in and we're going to make a mock up of our flag animation. Now this is going to make each step of the process much easier. It's going to help direct everything from scale, position of the flag, how we light it, how it's integrated into the final shot. So, here's how to Photoshop. We're going to look to identify a couple things. First, where are we putting this flag? How big is it going to be? Where is it going to be, you know, fixed to the bridge? Where is the light coming from? What are our shadows going to look like? What is the shading going to look like on the flag? Are there any objects that we may need to create later in 3D to interact with the flag. So this mockup's going to really help us. It almost functions as a to-do list as we move through the production pipeline. So, I'm going to make a new layer, bottom right hand corner and I'm going to hit B to…

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