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Compositing Fundamentals – Overview of Selections

Compositing Fundamentals – Overview of Selections

on Jan 28th 2013 with 13 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: 57:21 min

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In this tutorial we’ll take a look at selection methods within a compositing environment and discuss the importance of understanding them. Although its aimed at someone just starting out in the world of compositing, the more experienced artist will also find some valuable information. After a brief overview, and in order to bring greater clarity, we will implement the various selection methods in a test project.

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Dave Scotland has over 12 years of CG production knowledge and experience, working for some of the biggest clients in the entertainment industry including, Disney, Warner Bros. and Plastic Wax, just to name a few. He is the creator of CG Swot and is dedicated to bringing CG knowledge to anyone interested in learning... Dave started out, in production, as a 3D Animator and Technical Director before moving into the world of Compositing, Digital Visual Effects and Motion Graphics. Throughout his career, Dave has been drawn to the process of sharing his knowledge with others and has a definite gift for teaching quite technical procedures and techniques to both experienced and novice operators.  

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  • Mike Park

    Dave,

    Thanks for the tutorial. I do have a question, however. Why in the world did you apply RSMB to the background layer and then spend all that time trying to make the built in motion blur in After Effects match. Would it not have been much quicker and more accurate to make an adjustment layer overtop of all layers and apply RSMB to that? That way you would perfectly match the blur between the scene and the comp’ed objects. Was this an oversight, or were you trying to show how to match the blur if your original shot already had blur? I am not trying to be picky, just a bit confused. Thanks.

    • dave_scotland
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      In my experience, applying a third party motion blur plug-in to an adjustment layer can cause some resource issues with larger comps and the motion detection doesn’t always match on every layer. Also there is an issue if you have staggered layers. The plugin can’t work out what to do when the comp jumps from one staggered layer to the next staggered layer. You end up with one messy frame full of blur before it comes back to a normal moblur treatment. Hope that makes sense..

      • park_mike

        Thanks for the explanation I have used it on adjustment layers with no problem before, but will make sure to look for this in the future. Thanks again for the great tutorial

  • Nick R

    Great Tutorial! AETuts needs more like this.

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    1 – Car Explosion in After effects And Cinema 4d
    http://www.video-effects.ir/?p=2386

  • David

    This tutorial was great, i loved how you explained everything and then gave a real example on how to composite…. I have learned more in this tutorial than in any other tut in this site. Great teacher…

  • jijojose

    Awesome tutorial. Learned a lot. Dave, pls make more like this. :) :)

  • Gerard Costa

    One of the best free tutorials I’ve seen on a long time.. Thank You!

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  • http://twitter.com/cjavier_78 JaviG

    excellent tutorial, congrats, really helpful tips. i really enjoyed it
    Thank you!

  • http://www.facebook.com/victor.n.nguyen Victor Nhat Nguyen

    Amazing presenter, I learn so much from this video

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1499205597 Kristof Ermens

    this is the first time i sat through a tutorial of this length. by far! love your accent by the way.
    did you notice that when you were lining up the lights to get the bloom, you set the opacity to 35% and didn’t reset it when all was lined up. i liked the result more when it was still 100%. more etheral indeed. :)