From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Your Photos to Life in Three Dimensions Using Photoshop and After Effects
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Positioning while moving cameras and layers together
From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Your Photos to Life in Three Dimensions Using Photoshop and After Effects
Positioning while moving cameras and layers together
- We've been adding key frames to the cameras, but we can actually add key frames to the layers as well. I'm going to bring in some new assets here. I'll go over to Chapter 8. Let's take castle mask 2, and I'll uncheck Photoshop sequence, so it doesn't try to bring those in as one combo. And we'll just bring that in as a piece of footage. There we go. Merge 'em together. And double click, and also bring in this large cloud layer here. There we go. What I now want to do is combine those into one comp. Let's open this up here and double check our settings. Using the composition settings, I'm just going to dial this in at 1280 by 720 and click okay. Now we can promote that to a 3D layer. Next, I'm going to add the clouds in behind and make that also a 3D layer. And let's go to two comp views. What I want to do here is start to interact these layers a little bit. So we're going to take the monster clouds, press…
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