Burning Down your House Interior in After Effects

Compositing Fire in moving Shots

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44 min
Published on
August 20, 2021
Tutorial

Motion-Tracking, Fire Plates and Blending

For a music video directed by Varvara Galanova there was a complicated ending sequence where the actress walks out of her burning house.
The sequence was recorded without tracking markers or planned out lighting.

This meant it was going to be a complicated challenge to realistically composite fire assets into the scene.

For this reason we've got quite a long tutorial that will cover all aspects of tracking your footage, masking and compositing your fire plates.

Give the music video a watch to see the final result:

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