Tutorial: Compositing our Ground Cracks in After Effects
In this tutorial, Lendon goes over how to composite our Ground Crack elements using After Effects. He also made great use of Mocha Pro from our friends at Boris FX for the tracking.
In this tutorial, Lendon goes over how to composite our Ground Crack elements using After Effects. He also made great use of Mocha Pro from our friends at Boris FX for the tracking.
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