5 Basic Ways To Populate Mass Groups Within After Effects – AE Basix
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: Just After Effects and a couple friends... enjoy!
- Difficulty: Beginner
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
In this tutorial we look at 5 individual ways of duplicating crowds. These methods are:
- Simple Masking (garbage matting)
- Rotoscoping
- Difference Matting
- Chroma Keying
- Camera Technique
The tutorial explains each of the methods, the pros and cons, and goes in depth to show how to create the final preview using the difference matting technique. The last part also contains some general compositing techniques that can be applied to each method.
Introduction
Tutorials
Basic Masking
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File size 48MB
Chroma Keying
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File size 41MB
Rotoscoping
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File size 31MB
Difference Matte
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File size 241MB
Compositing and Camera Techniques
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File size 61MB
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Very good tips!Tnk you so much.
From Portugal
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Wow, very nice set-up of tutorial! and very well done! Nice effect!
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now you’ve 4
Great tutorials
Once again thanks.
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Very cool techniques. You have opened me the eyes in this massive movie world. Thanks a lot.
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nice tutorial Thanks
Thanx! Very very very much…
Oh man, Thx ;D
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oh men!
that player sucks, can`t u guys post all videos on youtube?
all i can see is the adverstment.
Been having problems watching tuts… player just “loads” but doesn’t play… seems like it just started about a week ago.
Wow, Really Cool Collection of Tricks and Tips, amazing.
Thanks for that
Thanks for your encouraging feedback everyone… now to survive Billy’s onslaught :O
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This is the best tutorial since that battleship video
Great tips and very useful resources!
Just a quick tip to ease the rotoscoping: Try and see what the mask tweening can do for you, so try every ten frames and refine in between. Another tip is use more than on one mask. For example you need to mask out a person which is standing fairly still, but waves an arm around, use a mask for the body and another for the arm. That way the tweening between keys can solve most of the movement of the body and you only have to really roto the arm.
Great tuts !
finally a good tutorial after such a long time in AEtuts.
Wow, that is awesome! Much easier than rotoscoping and cropping!
Its really help me lot for my new project
Last video is missing!
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thanx man ,
thats what am looking for ,
its really helpful .
Great tute and so good to hear an Aussie accent.
Congrats, James.