Creating the Water Fall Matte Paint (with stock images)

The waterfall matte, that I created, was used with completely photos from free stock websites so that I could experiment. This took me a long time primarily because of the fact I cut each image out in Photoshop first and then imported it into After Effects.

AE was where everything was place together and manipulated into a new image. I also spent some time trying to create a waterfall and CGI the water. One of the most difficult parts of this was trying to make it all look as if it is real.


The composition is predominantly made up of layers that have been colour corrects and changed in size.
I spent a lot of time using masking and 3D layers to create a depth of
field.

The final piece had quite a few issues but it helped me to gain an understanding to begin a piece using my own footage.

This video is a tutorial I loosely followed to gain an understanding of creating waterfalls. The main issue was, I was working on a more newer version of AE and this lead me to having to figure out and play with tools that were similar, but a bit different.

Instead of the particles he used, I had to use particle world CC instead and mess around with the different settings within that. However, it used the same basic understanding. It would have been a lot harder if I didn't have some knowledge with AE previously.