Week 7 Importing to After Efects

Matte Painting Study 

Week 7 Importing to After Effects

This week is fairly easy week. I started by opening up after effects. Then go to file and click import. Find you Adobe Photoshop File. Nice thing about adobe After Effects is that you can open photo shop files. When opening you Photoshop File chose open as composition. Also make sure the tab "Merge layer styles into footage" has been  check off. This is the easiest way if you have properly used folders and naming convention in Photoshop.

Re-size you composition to any size you want. Changing you composition is in the composition settings tab. You can access this by right clicking your comp and choosing composition settings. I chose to make my comp 1920 by 1080(HD) . Take you imported footage and drag it to the time line. Select all the layers and press "S" on the keyboard. Resize you layer to fix the comp or your desire.  Next step is to create a 3D Camera and select all your layers to be 3D layers.



From this point you want to move you background in Z space. Move it a far distance back. Do this with all your layers until you reach your top layer. You want to make a depth of field with your layers. This is for when you animate your camera it will look more realistic.

Now time to set camera position for your camera move. Go to the first frame and set your transform position. Then go later down the timeline to where you want it to stop.

This is the end result I got from my matte painting 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZcp7lmmCZA&feature=youtu.be

To incorporate moving water or waterfalls you can use the brush to with an lowered opacity and flow and partially erase the photo so a video layer below can be seen. This works great with waterfalls and water effects.