About this lesson
Every believable effect starts long before the camera rolls. In this lesson, Andrei U walks through a full sequence and shows how each piece was planned around the lens, the lighting, and the edit.
You will see where a practical element does the heavy lifting, where a digital layer takes over, and why the seam between them is the part most people get wrong. The goal is a repeatable way of thinking, not a single trick.
What you'll learn
- How to plan an effect around the camera, not the other way around
- Blending practical elements with clean digital compositing
- The small mistakes that break the illusion, and how to catch them early
- Building a workflow you can reuse on effect-heavy scenes