Apple Pro Training Series: Shake 4

Chapter 3. Intermediate Compositing

Lesson Files

APTS_Shake > Lessons > Lesson03

Media

robot_pt1.shk

lights.1-60#.iff

robot_final.1-60#.iff

Time

This lesson takes approximately 1 hour to complete.

Goals

Make a drop shadow from scratch

Create and edit keyframes to animate over time

Create a vignette, or soft fade

Add realistic glows and match film grain

Normally you can get 95 percent of a shot done very quickly. It’s always that last 5 percent that takes the majority of the time and effort but makes the difference in whether the shot looks real. In this lesson, which continues the robot composite, you will use keyframing to animate parameters as well as use masks to limit the effect of filters.

You can see the motion path in Shake as you set ...