Adding Elements To Your Film Footage - AE Basix

Lina Safstrom Oct 7, 2010

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Instead of starting from scratch when making a new motion piece I like to use filmed footage and add stuff onto it. I think it's a great and fast way of learning new tools and presets in After Effects.

In this tutorial I will go through what I added to my birdhouse footage to make it look like an ad or vignette for a tv breakfast show.

Things I have used are different kinds of filters, a dark vignette, motion tracking to the text and an animated speech bubble. The speech bubble is made out of three similar versions in Illustrator and then put together in a loop in After Effects. That gives it a more dynamic and analogue look to it.

Tutorial

Motion Graphics Adobe After Effects

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Lina Safstrom

Lina Safstrom is a motion graphics design student at Digital Media school Hyper Island in Sweden. She is into 2D, cel animation, colors and anything funky or tropical. In November this year she will go out on a seven months internship somewhere in the world. Have a look at her portfolio at her website or drop her an email at me@linasafstrom.com