Motion blur is great.
Sure that might be the dorkiest sentence ever, but it’s true. Motion blur helps to make things feel real. It helps to smooth out motion. It helps to sell a composite.
Now After Effects includes a new effect called pixel motion blur. This will analyze the motion of your footage using the same engine as the time warp effect to create a fake motion blur for your scenes.
You can control the shutter angle, shutter samples, and vector detail in order to get the most realistic result for your scene. For those of you familiar with Reelsmart Motion blur, this is a very similar type effect, now built into After Effects.
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[…] In my example I used it on a stock animation clip to enhance the blur when the bowling ball hits the pins. Previously you had to use a third party effect to do this like ReelSmart Motion Blur or Kronos. Retooled has a helpful video tutorial on After Effects Pixel Motion Blur here. […]