Task One - Adding to stock footage

For task one, I have downloaded a 1080p HD video from Pixabay of people walking around in the street. I will add a CGI object dropping to the stone pavement in the foreground. A shadow will also be included to make the object seem more believable.


I took the silver ball from the internet image using a .PNG file as .JPEGS aren't usually transparent and are more likely to leave white flakes around the edges taking away the quality. The silver ball was then animation manually using the position and size sub-layer keyframes under the transform primary layer. The shadow, like the ball, was also animated manually at first. However I found out that this method was unnecessary since a shadow can be put in using the 3D method in After Effects.




Here is the result.



Visual Effects - Task 1 from Jack Vanes on Vimeo.

Here is the original video.
https://pixabay.com/en/videos/street-walking-crowd-people-urban-1694/