Create Easy Matte Paintings in After Effects | Live VFX Presentation

From the live VFX presentation 'Cleaning Up The Streets' on 4/11/24 at Liminal Space in Cleveland. Brandon will walk you through the process of creating a matte painting or set extension inside of After Effects.
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We will first create a clean plate by painting out the road closure in Adobe Photoshop using Generative Fill.
Next we will track the camera movement with Mocha AE (the free version of Mocha inside of After Effects).
After applying that movement to the plate we will look at some of the newest rotoscoping tools powered by machine learning: Rotobrush 3 (bundled inside of After Effects) as well as Mask Prompter (a third party tool available here: aescripts.com/mask-prompter/)
Finally, Brandon will show some of the before & afters from '211.' 211 is a short film shot during the 'Show Me What You Got' Crew and Gear expo at Liminal Space in November 2023.
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211 Credits:
Liminal Space and Pixel Planet Studios
Executive Producer - Andrew W F Santin
Producer - James Waters II
Directed and Written By: Ryan Forte
Cinematography By: Juanmi Azpiroz, AEC
1st AD - Jessica Halas
Stunt Coordinator: Edward Ray Goodwin Jr
Cast
Police Officer #1: Victoria Cekanski
Police Officer #2: Kieth Golar
Bank Robber #1: Eric Toulouse
Bank Robber #2: Edward Ray Goodwin Jr
Getaway Driver - Jason Cekanski
Vendor:
Vehicles Provided By: Ohio Camera Cars
Camera Car - Bionic Steadi Ops
Crew
Driver - Drew Theiss
Boom Op - Dean Hayashi
A-Camera
1st AC - Thomas Matheis
2nd AC - Danny Matheis
B-Camera
Cam Op: Nicholas Weiss
1st AC - Sam Banhidy-Neff
2nd AC - Chris Leszkowicz
Ronin Tech - Sam Stephenson
DIT - Jackson Clark
Sound Mixer: Stewart Hering
VTR - Hunter Prunty
Set Medic - Mark Famiano
Prop Master - Vince Calabrese
Post
Edited By: Ryan Forte & Jackson Clark
VFX By: Pixel Planet Studios
VFX Artist: Brandon Dohner
Sound Mix & Master By: Jay Alton
Color Correction by: Brandon Jones
Special Thanks
Mike Wendt
Bill Garvey
Robert Cummings
Cleveland Film Commission
City of Cleveland
Cleveland Police
Shape Cleveland
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00:00 Introduction
00:55 Create a Matte Painting in Photoshop
02:30 Generative Fill
06:07 Track Camera (Mocha AE)
07:37 Garbage Matte
10:29 Mocha vs Other Tracking Methods (Planar Tracking vs 3D Camera & 2D Point Tracker)
12:26 Track Background
14:46 Apply Track Data to Matte Painting
16:57 Rotoscope (Rotobrush 3)
23:58 Process Recap
24:49 Adjust Motion Blur & Shutter Angle for Plate
25:43 Mask Prompter for Fast Rotoscoping
28:09 Text Prompts for Rotoscoping
31:47 Other VFX Shots in 211
33:29 ActionVFX
35:19 More VFX Shots
39:25 Watch 211 Short