Compositing an Animated Poster with Live Footage in After Effects
In this series of After Effects tutorials, we will go through the process for animating this band poster and composite it into a live action plate. Software required: After Effects CS6.
What you'll learn
In this series of After Effects tutorials, we will go through the process for animating this band poster and composite it into a live action plate. We'll start out by going through the steps of building up our poster's composition to make it interesting and appealing. We then discuss the timing of our messaging, so that it has plenty of time to be read, while still holding the attention of our viewer. From that point, we move into the compositing phase of our course where we slowly begin to add effects to integrate the poster into our scene. We go over some simple motion tracking and rotoscoping techniques as well as some great tips for color correction. Software required: After Effects CS6.
Table of contents
- Stabilizing the Footage 5m
- Setting up Our Composition for the Poster 9m
- Adding the Particles in the Background 11m
- Adding the Deer Head to Our Animation 12m
- Animating the Ring to House Our Message 16m
- Establishing the Message 17m
- Adding the Second Half of Our Message 12m
- Adding the Message Comp to the Rest of Our Poster 17m
- Bringing the Poster into the Live Action Plate 7m
- Using Motion Tracking to Make Our Poster Stick to Our Plate 10m
- Color Correcting Our Poster 12m
- Adding Age and Shadows to Our Poster 14m
- Rotoscoping the Fluttering Paper 14m
- Adding the Final Compositing Touches to Our Shot 11m
About the author
Laura is a passionate visual effects and motion graphics author at Pluralsight. Ever since her first exposure to After Effects in college, Laura has had an eternal drive to learn more about motion graphics, and teach others what she has discovered. Laura began working at Digital-Tutors (now a Pluralsight company) as a motion graphics artist, creating visually-appealing advertisements and informative art for the site. Throughout her time at Digital-Tutors, Laura contributed greatly to both the ... more