Realistic Sky Replacement for your Moving shots

Realism in your Sky Replacement

This advanced tutorial will cover how to do sky replacements on shots that have 3D camera movement. I will go through my process of motion tracking the footage, looking at reference images and composing the final shot with overcast cloud assets.

I would like to thank Gagan Nayar Singh for allowing me to use the footage from his upcoming short film Famished for this visual effects tutorial. Sky-replacement is an essential step in the visual effects pipeline to emphasise the mood/feeling a scene should provide. This tutorial goes over several advanced techniques for creating perfect luma mattes for your sky replacement.

I will also cover some smaller but useful compositing techniques as doing a light wrap and matching the noise from the backplate.

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