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Smoothing movement with motion blur

Smoothing movement with motion blur - After Effects Tutorial

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Smoothing movement with motion blur

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- If an object moves quickly, it should probably have some motion blur. That's because the way cameras and the human eye tends to draw things, is that fast moving objects appear to streak a little bit. This is due in part to things like frame rate and refresh rates but it just looks more natural. But with computer animation, motion blur is usually disabled by default because it can be processor intensive. Here's how to control it. Let's turn off a few options here. I'll disable the light, and I'll turn off the further away teddy bear for a moment. And let's just play this, you'll see the element shrinks back and then it's going to shoot forward. And all the times that it's moving, it remains crisp and in focus for the entire movement. Well, what we can do is globally enable motion blur. This means that all layers that have motion blur turned on will exhibit blurring, so let's do that. I'll also then enable it for the two teddy bear layers. This is the global switch which enables the…

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