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Tracking the left hand

Tracking the left hand - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Artist in Action: Eran Stern's Personal Transporter

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Tracking the left hand

After finishing with the preparation work, we actually have one more step, which is a very important one, and this is to track the information. Now, in this part, we're going to track both of the actor's hands in separate movies. We'll start, in this movie, by tracking the left hand. This will be partially automatic. And, we'll have to do some manual fix to create the perfect circle movement of the actor's left hand. At this stage, we are just going to collect raw tracking data. And, later in this course, we are going to marry it to some effects, and position movements. If you have access to the project file, I am still working in the same project, which is Personal Transporter. And, I'm going to open up the second folder here named, Tracking. I've prepared two compositions for you. The first one is 05-Left Hand Track. Let's double-click on this one; and this is the state that we left the composition at the previous movie. Just to make sure that everyone is on the same point, I'm…

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