After Effects Motion Tracking

For this lesson we had to create a composition which involved a lot of which we had learned in previous lessons but at a more advanced level. We had to motion track 3 castles onto a mov file to make it appear as if it were in the background we made use of both Adobe After Effects and Photoshop to achieve this. First we had to import the appropriate files into After Effects. First we turned the mov file into our composition this would be the plate for graphic effect. Then it was time for the motion tracking we had to split this two different motion tracks as the effect is quite long and because of the actor in the video is only in a certain portion of the screen. The next part involved Photoshop, the original image was a castle in a field. The first thing that had to be changed was the removal of the background followed by adding in grass by the use of the clone stamp tool, the grass was then feathered to make it blend in with the mov file.

Now the final part of this composition is to colour correct it after parenting the castles to the tracking points. This was to make the castles fit into the scene more clearly and this was done by pulling out the green and adding more of blue and red. For extra we had to take a mov file of moving clouds and the replace the existing sky with the mov and this is to give the finished product an overall look of professionalism.