Opening up the project

For this lesson, open the project in the exercise files of this chapter as follows:

1. Open After Effects.
2. To open the project, click on Open Project in the After Effects startup window. Alternatively, you can go to File | Open Project... in the menu bar.
3. In the file browser, locate the Lesson8_start.aep project file in the Chapter 8 folder of the exercise files and open it:

Figure 8.1: The Lesson8_start project with the default workspace

The project has two compositions, which we will be using to learn about rotoscoping and masking. Keep the project open for the rest of the chapter.

Next, we will be using the Roto Brush tool in After Effects to rotoscope and mask the walk-in forest layer in the rotoscoping composition.