VFX Techniques: Digital Set Extension
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Learn how to digitally extend a set with After Effects. Create a missing wall in the composite and add a moving scene outside windows.
Learn how to digitally extend a set with After Effects. Lee Lanier shows how to remove a tricky green screen with the KEYLIGHT plugin and a custom luma matte, motion track a new background with appropriate parallax, digitally dress a set with static artwork, fabricate shadows, and relight the footage to create a realistic result.
Learn how to digitally extend a set with After Effects. Lee Lanier shows how to remove a tricky green screen with the KEYLIGHT plugin and a custom luma matte, motion track a new background with appropriate parallax, digitally dress a set with static artwork, fabricate shadows, and relight the footage to create a realistic result.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Breakdown of the final composition
- Setting up the project
- Applying the Keylight effect
- Creating a luma mask
- Using a track matte
- Refining the alpha matte
- Combining multiple tracks
- Adding 3D renders to the background
- Parenting additional layers
- Creating depth of field
- Layering background reflections
- Layering foreground reflections
- Adding set dressing
- Set dressing the window
- Creating drop shadows
- Building a new window
- Adding a reversed reflection
- Determining perspective shift
- Animating a 3D layer
- Building a custom glow
- Making a glint
- Final adjustments and rendering
- Checking out the finished project
- Next steps
Taught by
Lee Lanier
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