From the course: How Do I Do That in After Effects
Join today to access over 25,300 courses taught by industry experts.
How can I create a film-look in After Effects? - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: How Do I Do That in After Effects
How can I create a film-look in After Effects?
- A rich color grade is often referred to as a film look. It lets you take relatively flat video and push the color space and other properties so it looks more like it was shot on a digital cinema camera or actual film. Let me show you a few of my favorite techniques in After Effects to achieve this. Here, we have two instances of a project. Here's the end state. What you'll notice is that the colors are rich, but that there's soft areas of focus and great highlights and shadows. Here's the much more plain video that was as shot. Well, let me break this down. What you'll see here are a few things in play. A filter to tweak, a mask to create a power window and then some blurs and glows that we can add as well as an overall color grade. Let's have a look. This initial clip already has the shadow and highlights expanded and that was to just create a very flat open image. I suggest when you go to create a film look that…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.