Take control of the After Effects 3D Camera to replicate the settings of a physical real-world camera.The title of this article may seem grandiose, given how many fundamental cinematographic choices are out of reach to compositors, but thinking like a director of photography and understanding the workings of the camera are the goals if you're going to fool the viewer into believing your effects shot.įor example, in After Effects you can do all of the following: After Effects offers compositors the opportunity to re-create and even change some of these decisions, long after the crew has struck the set and called it a wrap. The camera sees only a limited piece of the world, and from a specific perspective.Ĭapturing a scene from this perspective requires a host of decisions that constitute a full-blown storytelling art known as cinematography. and Adobe Press.Īs visual effects artists, we strive not only to re-create the natural world realistically, but also the camera's view of the world. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. This article is adapted from Adobe After Effects 7.0 Studio Techniques by Mark Christiansen.
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