The Basics of Sky Replacement in After Effects

Compositing and Extracting Mattes

Written by

Leonardo Verkoelen

Reading time

16 min

Published on

June 18, 2020

Tutorial

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Change the Mood of your Footage

In this Cloud Pack tutorial we will be going in-depth to some basic compositing techniques for Sky Replacement in After Effects.

Cinematographer Erick Alcaraz sent me some footage for which he wanted the mood to be changed. On set you're never able to control the clouds.
So even when you have beautiful clouds on location, you might have to resort to sky replacement. In this tutorial we will tackle 3 different examples.

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